"That's the spirit. And superpowers are nice!"

"You get to fly, that's very cool even if you can't actually do it for fun much."

"I love it, yeah. I hope you get something you like at least that much."

"It's a pretty high bar on coolness. But I guess we'll see...or uh I will. I mean..."

"I am available for powers testing guiding after you're all awake."

"Thank you, I'm...trying not to make assumptions."

"I had to wait way too long to find out what I could do after my awakening, I was petrified of picking up any backlash without knowing how I was going to put it down again. If I can solve that problem for you I am happy to do so."

"I admire your self-restraint. I'll want to have like...a few hours or something to give my brain a break, catch up on my texts, and call my mom, but not too long. I...think my life is going to be sort of...on hold until I figure out if I got something that's useful for dungeons or not so better to get an idea of that at least sooner rather than later. At least before I have to decide whether I'm going back to college."

"Even if your powers aren't good for dungeoneering espers can still get esper jobs - professional partners are a thing, Rhombus's partner has lousy powers but is extremely useful for keeping Rhombus going - and the security ones who sit in secure installations and poke people to make sure they're not also undisclosed espers."

"Also if I get healing or something like that I could work in a hospital, which would be pretty nice. Security sounds...really boring honestly, and they probably won't let you have a phone with wifi so you can scroll Twitter or something. If I was doing that I'd like to do it part time and stay in college. I could do the reading homework at work, instead of at home." She's not going to touch the professional partner thing right now, because that's a complicated mess of feelings actually.

"Makes sense."

"Money is useful but..It's a tool that can be exchanged for the things I actually want. So I'm not going to dedicate my life to something...boring and unsatisfying just to make esper money off it."

"What do you actually want, then - sorry, you can ignore that, that's too personal - uh - do you wanna see dungeon photos -"

"Yeah, dungeon photos. I did look at some of the ones on your blog but I'm sure you have some that didn't make the cut? Or additional commentary on the ones that did?"

"I have some that haven't gone up yet too! I'm building up a backlog so I don't go completely dark when a confluence hits and I'm working more than twice as much. I was in a dungeon last week with cave koalas -" He finds his photos of the cave koalas and their homes.

Cave koalas! Very cute. "Did you get any cave koalas?"

"Oh...yeah there's a confluence coming up soonish."

"I didn't catch a koala, when they found the core I placed a couple calls but nobody I contacted wants them if they stay that big and there's no guarantee they'll shrink. The dungeon's still up, so I might nip in and grab one if they change their minds, but I wouldn't expect it. And yeah, soonish, no way to know exactly when."

"Well that's...a bit unfortunate that nobody wants the koalas."

"Yeah. It's like, you know the Swiss cheese model of accidents? Where you have lots of filters that prevent many but not all accidents and you just try to layer as many holey slices of cheese on top of each other as you can and hope that there aren't many spots where all the holes are lined up. Getting monsters out alive is like that. You have to find the core, you have to actually catch the monster, it has to survive its dungeon, you have to find a place to put it, you have to figure out what it'll eat and what else it needs, and all of those things are more or less iffy."

"I do know about the Swiss cheese model. Real koalas are very hyperspecialized to live in eucalyptus trees and eat the leaves and won't even eat off plates, or so I heard. I did not actually fact check this though. Also these ones were in caves."

"I knew the eucalyptus thing but not the plates thing! No idea what the cave ones would eat, monsters don't eat while their dungeon's alive by and large."

"Do they even usually have the relevant internal organs? Obviously the orphaned ones must have something that passes for them since they do eat, but do they like acquire those upon being orphaned as part of generally becoming more...biologically plausible, or do monsters usually have something at least pretending to be a digestive system, or does it vary and the ones that survive are the ones who were more biologically plausible in the first place. I know that like blob monsters or smoke monsters don't survive."

"You know what, that's a good idea for a post, I bet someone's done a field dissection ever and I should ask around till I can find out who, can you remind me when I'm literate again?"

"Sure - you can't read while backlashed even if you're talking to somebody at the same time?"