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a zanmi is an esper
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Haru sometimes gets coffee at Tim's, when he happens to feel like it on a random morning, or when he needs to be up long enough to finish out a guiding session with June. This morning it's the first thing.

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This morning, a woman is rushing out the door carrying several drinks, steps hurried, face blank.

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Haru tries to get out of her way, but he does not completely avoid a brush of contact. "- hey! Ma'am!"

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She turns, giving him a look of faint confusion. "Can I help you?"

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"Are you okay? You're pretty backlashed and you're getting coffee? I do that sometimes too but -"

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"...I'm bringing coffee to some people in the library?"

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"To... your partner who is in the library?"

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"I don't have a partner."

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"...are you awakening?"

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Headtilt.

 

 

"...Maybe?" 

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"Are the people in the library your friends?"

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"Not really?"

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"Do you... know them at all."

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"Vaguely? It's a study group, but we haven't met up before."

Her hands are shaking.

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"...can you show me?"

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She nods seriously. "Yes." 

She heads off towards the library, glancing back every so often to make sure he's still with her. 

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Oh yeah he's following.

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They get to the library. She leads him into a study room and wordlessly begins distributing the drinks to the ?grad students? in the room, brow furrowed. 

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"Hey. Do any of you know this woman? I'm pretty sure she's having an esper awakening and I need to find her folks."

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"Uh, that's..." 

   "Cara. She sat next to me in History 503 last fall. We never really talked much?"  

      "-esper awakening?"

"Wait, are you an esper?" the first one asks Haru. 

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"Yes. Traceless. That's how I noticed. What school is this, in case I need to talk to admin types?"

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"University of Toronto."

   "...her full name is Cara Mavi, by the way", the second student says, looking up from her phone.

       "Is she really awakening? What's her backlash? She looks fine."

"Dude -"

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"I don't know what it is and it's none of your business anyway, a lot of people keep theirs private and it's good she still has the chance to do that. Cara Mavi, thank you." He notes this in his phone. "Cara, who's your emergency contact?"

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"Aunt Rachel."

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"Can you tell me your aunt Rachel's number?"

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She pulls out her phone, pokes at it, and reads out a number, hands fidgeting the whole time.

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