She tilts her head. "Five? ...Oh, I forgot Cricket, but who's the fifth?"

“Oh! Six.”

Wait, oh no. She blushes. "D-did you tell your family?"

“…They saw the pictures.”

Huh! She makes a little "o" with her mouth. "I suppose they did!" She leans her forehead into Lucy's. "Sorry, I know that wasn't a very good secret. ...I do have a real one, but I'm kind of afraid to say it."

"Do you want me out of earshot?"

ESPER HEARING

“Actually, you know what, wait on sharing any secrets until the week is over.”

Oh yeah no that was definitely already the plan she's just down bad "Then we'll all have esper hearing!"

“Esper hearing isn’t infinity better.”

She giggles. "I think it would be really bad if it was! There's so many sounds out there. What do you mean, though?" 

“I mean once you have esper hearing you’ll be able to judge esper earshot better. And there’s something to judge.”

"Oh, true! That will make it easier." Headtilt. "I guess that means once we become espers we can't talk about how cool Haru is without having plausible deniability for having forgotten he can hear us, though..."

Snort.

“HEY HARU YOU’RE REALLY COOL.”

Yessss group silliness.

She pretends to cover Lucy's mouth. "Shhhh, he'll hear us!"

Haru snickers. "Who, me, I didn't hear anything."

“That’s the point, silly. HARU YOU’RE DEEPLY THOUGHTFUL AND ‘YELLING ABOUT BASIC RESEARCH’ BASICALLY REWROTE MY BRAIN.”

He giggles.

Golly. She looks at Haru, and then at Lucy, and then back at Haru again.

"...I should really read those posts, huh."

"Eventualities dot traceless dot com."

“You should! I hereby take shameless advantage of your backlash to order you to read his blog.”

- Haru flicks a nervous glance in Cara's direction.

-she looks at Lucy. "...I don't have my phone?"

“…That was less bad and unkind in my head.”