Oooh it's not tonight yet but they're still allowed to kiss apparently.

She really likes kissing him! Especially when he's being so cute. 

Yaaaaaay!

Eventually she will reluctantly disentangle when her phone starts buzzing.

She checks it and smiles. "Oh, that's Val! Mind if I take this?" 

"Go ahead." Pet pet.

She nuzzles him and picks up, and has an extended conversation with Val that starts with planning their shopping trip, continues to an excited summary of her powers, gets gracefully redirected away from their questions about Haru, and meanders towards Val's classes this year before Cara wraps it up and promises to see them in a few hours.

She kisses him on the forehead after she hangs up. "Hmm, anything else? Or should I head back to my place for now?" 

"You might want to turn your phone volume way down if you don't want me eavesdropping."

Whoops!

She does this. "For the record, there was nothing there I minded you hearing and almost never will be, I'm not very private and I trust you a lot - but often not going to be true for whoever I might be talking to, so thanks for the pointer."

Esper senses! She does love her new vision.

"It didn't sound it but you never know. I hope you two have a wonderful clothes shopping; I'm gonna offer to sit with June in case she's got any backlash from the past week."

Awww. She pats him on the head. "-I was briefly tempted to say 'tell her I said hi' but my understanding is that you should do the opposite of this! Sounds good, though. I should head out soon, and then I'll meet you back here at... 8 pm, maybe?""

"Yeah, the opposite of that. 8 pm it is." He makes a note of it.

The notebook is so cute. She's not even slightly over how cute it is. 

She'll get dressed - "hmm, should I bring some stuff over here under the assumption that I'll at least keep sleeping here for the next couple days?"

"Sure, changes of clothes and whatever else."

Her laptop, some fidget toys, her backpack and everything in it, her meds though she probably needs a lower dose now... She'll think of other things, probably.

She kisses him on the cheek. "See you tonight, " probably it's too early for cute nicknames "Haru"

Kiss goodbye. "See you!"

Cara gets a rideshare to her apartment after checking her personal finances and determining she can dip into her savings without any issue - Haru gave her a ballpack estimate on how much she'd make doing just a few dungeons a week, and she's not concerned, especially since there's a bunch of school-related spending she no longer needs to do. 

She emails her building management to say that she probably needs to break her lease, she'll pay the fee, and that she expects to be out by the end of the month but it's probably okay if they want to start showing it off to people sooner.

When she gets home, she takes a long shower, washes and masks her hair, then twirls it up in a towel while it dries so she can gather up things she wants to have at Haru's into her backpack and one of her duffel bags. She calls Aunt Rachel and has a really nice long chat while sorting her clothes into "keep" and "doesn't fit well, give away" piles.

Aunt Rachel agrees that Haru sounds wonderful, she loved his blog, these were her favorite posts and this is what they were about - Cara delightedly asks a bunch of questions and gets nice detailed answers as Aunt Rachel reskims the article, which is Cara's favorite method of absorbing new information and one of the many reasons she loves her aunt dearly.

When she finishes sorting her clothes and also the conversation, she reopens the group chat with Reve and Mags.

cara: O_o wow there's a lot of backscroll
reve: oh the superhero is back! And here I thought you were too cool for us now d:
cara: ..........................
mags: ...reve?
reve: sorry. I didn't mean - 
cara: ...it's whatever. I know you didn't mean it.
reve: no that was genuinely fucked up of me to say, even if I was just joking.
reve: you didn't deserve that, and I'm sorry.
cara: ...okay. thanks.
cara: I want to move on though.
mags: :meowmeltthumbsup:
cara: *scrolls up* wow this is a lot of codename suggestions. You really got sidetracked, huh?
reve: It was fun.
cara: ...@mags pinball girl? 
mags: you're both so mean :c
cara: -wait what the fuck you're a genius???
mags: :happyblushy:
reve: Oh I see she got to the flywheel backpack.
cara: the thin globe is also really good but I need to call Traceless about the flywheel backpack yeah that's incredible.
reve: Wait
reve: What
reve: How do you know Traceless
cara: Oh, we're compatible and he ran into me at Tim Horton's a week ago.
cara: He's been guiding me all week.
reve: WHAT
cara: Okay gotta go bye! I'm a busy superhero now, you know. Be back later maybe!
reve: C A R A
mags: I think you deserve that one tbh
reve: augh

She texts Haru!

Do you know how espers procure custom gear? Mags pointed out that if it could be built sturdily enough, a flywheel backpack could let me store huge amounts of momentum safely and this would have a lot of very cool applications.

I go through Paula about that kind of thing!

Got it! Hmmm, would you be cool asking her about this for me or should it wait until I have my own agent?

You can share her for a bit but normally partners do not have the same agent for conflict of interest reasons. I've asked her about the flywheel.

Thank you 💙🩵 and that makes a lot of sense! I can start looking for my own agent tomorrow. 

I can't remember if I've already said this but it should be someone who can know what your backlash is even if it's a complete secret from the general public.

Yeah 🩵 I've been thinking about how I want to approach that conversation and have a strategy! I'm going to get an NDA set up for it, Aunt Rachel knows someone who can help me with that. 

I can also ask Paula for a referral for someone if Rachel's friend isn't an esper specialist.