She focuses, and - 

Time feels like it slows to a crawl, and her world shrinks - a meter radius around her, though she could push it outwards, if she tried. And instead of her usual senses -

She's at the center of the world. She's stationary. 

Haru is in front of and under her, and stationary. 

The couch is under her and Haru, and stationary. 

There's a bug under the couch. It has a tiny amount of momentum. 

Does she want it?

She reaches out, and -

The bug stops moving, and she moves a completely unnoticeable amount in the same direction. 

"...what'd that do?" he asks, as the backlash slips away into the convenient receptacle she's touching.

"I can sense when nearby things are moving, I think also further away things with more effort. And I can - hold on, I want to -" 

She stands up, does a little jump, and focuses.

She's at the center of the world. She's moving down. 

That couch pillow is in front of her and to the left. It's stationary. Does she want to give it her momentum? 

Cara hangs in midair for a half a second. The throw pillow on the far end of the couch flies straight up, but before it can go very far, she focuses again and it freezes in midair, and she's moving up again, not much but enough to notice. 

Then she lands and hugs him delightedly. "I can give and take and redirect momentum!" 

"- oh that's so cool!"

"Yeah!!" She's wriggling delightedly, her thoughts racing. "It seemed pretty cheap in terms of backlash cost, too - though I bet it costs more if I hold the focus for longer, or push the range out, and I think it probably also scales with the amount of momentum I'm redirecting - there's a bug under the couch, by the way, that's what I did the first time, but of course it didn't have basically any momentum so when I took it you couldn't tell I moved at all - I think I could do spinning, too, which seems like it could be useful and also very fun - "

(She's too excited (and perhaps a bit too tired) to be running her babble filter at the moment.)

"Can you tell directly it's a bug or is there just nothing else plausible that could be moving there?"

She focuses again, trying to pay more attention to the raw input, and then drops it a moment later.

"I don't get 'bug' specifically, but - I get enough of a feeling for its size, mass distribution, and how it is moving that my brain is happy to go 'oh, that is a bug!' ...Pretty sure it's a roach, specifically."

"Can you geesh it with your power? Or scoot it out so I can do it."

"...I'd rather release it outside, if that's okay?" She - moves her hand up, slowly, and then stops - the roach flies out from under the couch and towards her feet. 

Startled, it tries to move, but she stops it repeatedly with her power as she gets up to cup it into her hands, its momentum contributing a miniscule amount to her motions towards it. (Her backlash ticks up a tiny amount each time). It's weird, using her power while she's doing something else, but it's the kind of weird she can get used to, with practice.

Speaking of weird... She pauses, thoughtfully. "Huh. My backlash is going down even though you're not touching me. Is that normal?"

"It's a roach, not a spider, I don't actually want it released near my house. That is not normal but not unheard of - you didn't notice distance guiding while awakening?"

"....I could send it pretty far away with my powers? That wouldn't hurt a roach. ...I don't like killing bugs if I can help it, sorry."

She tilts her head and thinks back. "Hmmm. In retrospect, I definitely remember the sensation. But... it's weaker than the touch by a fair bit, and a lot of lower-level sensory feedback was going unnoticed, while I was backlashed."

"That's asymmetrical, I don't feel you at a distance, but that's not unheard of either. You don't have to personally kill it but I don't want to send it to someone else's house either. German roaches don't really live outside."

She looks sad, but - if they don't live outside, passing it off to pester someone else or die in a spiderweb isn't any kinder, is it. She nods slowly.

She might as well do it herself - she can make it quick.

She jumps, reaches out, and pushes.

The bug flattens in her hand.

She flinches.

"- whoa. Do you also have qualms about doing that to monsters."

She sighs, then heads over to the kitchen faucet to wash the bugsmear off her hands.

"Not abstractly, though it'll probably take a bit of getting used to actually doing it. It's - self defense, or defending others, and in the absence of better options those are situations in which I endorse the use of force. And we can't negotiate with dungeons." Yet, anyways.

"Do you want to be choosy about what kind of monsters you practice on, like, will it be easier if they're zombies or oozes and not griffins or ladybugs?"