She tilts her head to the side, thinking. "I think water is a great idea. And also I should use the bathroom... Headache yes, but - I think it's the 'Cara you should sleep at night' kind?"

"Well, we can solve the first two problems." Hup. Glass of water for Cara and then she can be alone in the bathroom.

Water! Bathroom! She - has enough of her brain to notice how leaving contact with Haru feels really bad. 

Ah well. 's useless week. And it could be so much worse.

She finishes up, makes her way back to him, and attempts to re-wrap.

"You said you live with your mom?"

"Yes, she's out a lot but home for dinner more days than not. I've told her you're here."

"Got it. ...should I put on some kind of shirt before she gets back?"

"I don't think she'll be scandalized, I can warn her if you'd rather not."

"...I really don't want to get more backlashed again... That sucked a lot."

Clingy Cara.

"I'll alert her."

"Thanks." 

Come on, Cara, what would be an interesting thing to say here...

"What's the next blog post going to be about?"

"Natural categories in esper powers. They mostly don't exist, but only mostly."

oh, maybe he can be the interesting one and she can just be guided and listen...

"ooooh, so there are some? -is this the kind of thing where you giving a verbal preview of the post is fun and/or useful for you, or should I just wait and read it when it's out?"

"It'd be helpful if I were backlashed. Might be a good topic for during or after a flight, if you wanna go for a flight."

"That sounds nice! I've always wanted to fly, if my power lets me fly I will be soso happy."

"It probably won't, it's rare and there's no obvious connection with your backlash, but stranger things have happened. I don't get to practice as much as I'd like though, so I'm happy to swoop you around. You will need to wear a shirt for that though."

"I have no idea what kind of power goes with this backlash! I will definitely put a shirt on for flight, though we don't have to do that right now or today? Whenever's good." Snuggle.

"Maybe after dinner. Sunset flight."

kinda romantic shhh brain "Oooooooh! Sunset flight! That sounds really nice." 

"That's the idea! Do you have access to what you want for dinner or should I pick something?"

"Hmmm. Coming up with an opinion like that is hard, but - my memory works fine, so i can just - "

In a squeaky voice: "Hey Cara, what did you eat for each meal every day in the past two weeks?"

Cara Mavi is many things, and none of them are "gourmand". The list is populated with various kinds of microwave/oven frozen foods for lunches and dinners, yogurt / cereal / fruit for breakfast, mac and cheese, impossible burgers...

"Okay, KD it is."

"KD sounds good! Do you have hot sauce?"

"Yes, though it's going to be mostly weird things Ren buys for novelty rather than hyper-spicy things from the habanero dimension."

"That's fine!" Wait, how did he - oh right, they went to her place to pick up her clothes and he got her a yogurt from the kitchen, he would have seen her powder there.

 "...Huh. Does esperification reduce spice tolerance? It enhances other senses, right, and I could see how some kinds of enhanced taste would lead to a lower spice tolerance..."

"I've never heard of it reducing spice tolerance. It's enhanced senses in the sense that if you only liked spicy things because half your tastebuds were dead and you wanted to have any food-related sensations at all, then maybe this would be less appealing once you could enjoy things like vanilla and rosemary, but if you just like spice for its own sake I think you're good. Besides, the changes are mostly very polite and cooperative. If that's your habitual hair color it's probably going to start growing in just exactly like that."

"Huh, I'm not sure if I like spicy food because of weird taste bud problems or not! Though I had a friend speculate that it's downstream my anosmia, so... maybe?" ...wait, wrong question, the right question is -

"Woah, is this going to give me a sense of smell??? oh that would be so weird... "

And ooooooh, not having to dye her hair anymore sounds awesome.