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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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traceless
"I am eternally grateful! This is also why I still live with my mom. And also why I have a monster cat."
come-hold-my-hand
"Cricket! who is not allowed to give me orders because he's sarcastic and I'm sooooooooo suggestable like this." She giggles sleepily.
traceless
"That's right. I really don't want to find out what happens if somebody tells you to go soak your head. Which I am not telling you to do. To be clear."
come-hold-my-hand
she laughs. "I deeply appreciate how careful you're being with me! The use-mention distinction was obvious to me, and also right now I could probably avoid doing it if you did tell me to? 's not nearly as bad as it was before you started guiding me..."
she shivers a bit, thinking about it, and tries to get more skin contact.
traceless
He scoops her up, collects his laptop en route, and figures out a guidey position wherefrom he can laptop, which might involve using her as a lap desk or something.
come-hold-my-hand
She's happy to be esper furniture!
"-uh, hmm. I. usually sleep topless? the bra gets hurty... Is that, um, okay?"
traceless
"You're not going to distress me and I'm not going to be weird about it. I can't guess if you're going to freak out about it once you're all the way awakened, though."
come-hold-my-hand
"Nahhhhhh. I'm. kinda slutty. Which is, I hear, going to be a good culture fit!"
Time to change for sleeps?
traceless
"Popular perception exaggerates it but yes, you'll fit right in." He can resume lap desking on her when she's comfy.
come-hold-my-hand
She'll sleep well for a few more hours! She mumbles in her sleep, and clings to Haru tightly during what must be a nightmare.
traceless
Poor girl. When she's got a nightmare he'll compute slightly less comfortably to get more skin on her in case that helps.
traceless
He's full of curry and he's got a blog post to research, he can be a nap surface for as long as she needs.
come-hold-my-hand
Afternoon naps after all-nighters are usually 3 to 4 hours affairs! Cara will stir herself awake after 3, and look up at Haru.
"whatcha upto?"
come-hold-my-hand
"Yeah. The guiding is really really nice, I feel... almost normal? Except for the tired, I'm still tired, I'll be tired till tomorrow morning, I think"
traceless
"I don't think I have you to nearly normal, I'm not carrying any backlash of my own and we haven't been doing anything very high-bandwidth, but you have more of a - triggerable, condition, rather than a constant one? So it might be functionally similar."
come-hold-my-hand
Ugh... Why did she think... "...sorry, it's like... making me worse at introspection, in addition to the triggered thing. Ugh."
She slumps on him. "My powers better be really cool."
