...her broken arm...

She has the stupidest fucking backlash ever???

...But! She's an esper!! And now her hell week is over!!!

"It's finally over!!!", they hear their daughter shout.

Pete runs in right away and gives her a huge hug, laughing with relief. "Oh thank the stars, Kankan, we were so worried - when we were pretty sure it was awakening it wasn't so bad, but that first night - you must have been so scared - oh you're so brave, I love you so much -" (she's making muffled noises of embarrassment, but she doesn't stop him).

He tells her not to use her power. She rolls her eyes. He repeats it, more seriously, but he's interrupted by Dave coming in with the shape cake he's been working on for the last day.

It's a shockingly-well-rendered (for the medium) fiberglass canoe, the fancy one in the color Kani asked for. Written on it in big letters is the text CONGRATS ON SURVIVING HELL WEEK!!

Kani laughs when she sees it. (None of them can easily recall the last time she laughed like that, but luckily this doesn't occur to them at the time and sober the mood). 

"...you don't actually have to get me a new canoe, if you don't want to. I know they're expensive," she says, her face returning to a normal amount of seriousness.

    "No, we're men of our word!" Dad insists.

        "But if you wanted to give us a bit of cash back once you start making esper money -"

    "Pete."

        "For being such amazing and patient fathers - "

    "Pete..."

        "While our dear precious daughter looked at like she wanted to stab us for daring to mention the broken arm and esper awakening we'd dropped everything to try and help her through -"

Kani starts laughing again. "I did want to do a bit of violence, by the end. Very well, dear fathers, I will see to it that some of my Esper Money makes it your way. For being such good sports." 

They eat the cake together, laughing and chatting about the various happenings of the week, Kani's usual misery hiding beneath the sheer relief she feels now.

They tell her some of what Dr Ixi had told them, including the fact that espers heal faster during their hell week - her arm will actually probably be good to use in a week or two, which is really exciting. It definitely feels less bad! She asks them to thank the doctor for her, and Dad pulls out his phone and types something up. She sighs happily.

In a few hours, though, Papa has to go out to take an evening shift (their supervisor has been pretty lenient, but there's a bit of a shortage and a lot of trail paths that need clearing before it gets any colder), and Dad's eyes are drooping from his early morning shift. She shoos him out of her room, wanting to have a bit more time to herself anyways.

She stretches and yawns. Her left hand brushes her flashlight, and following some unknown instinct, she -

[7 days, 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds ago]: The flashlight falls out of Kani's hand and is placed on the bedside table. (Kani is confused and scared and in so so so much pain. Her backlash is preventing her from noticing that she has a broken arm, and several other small cuts and bruises. The painkillers haven't had time to kick in yet.)

[7 days, 1 hour, 34 minutes, and 40 seconds ago]: The flashlight, already shorted out, hits the ground along with Kani, and the glass in front of the bulb cracks. (Kani screams, drowning out the horrible crunch of her bones breaking. Her backlash has already fully sunk in, so there's no warning from the fall or understanding of why this is happening, just pain.)

[7 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes, and 22 seconds ago]: Kani presses the flashlight button repeatedly. It remains off, having drunk more than its fill from the carbon river. (Kani's backlash is still ramping up, so she notices a bit of confusion from the lack of light, but unfortunately, it's strong enough for her to conclude that it isn't a problem.)

[7 days, 3 hours, 9 minutes, and 50 seconds ago]: Kani brushes her fingers against the flashlight as she takes off her backpack and puts it dow-

...she drops the flashlight in shock, eyes open wide.

That - her power - she can see the past of something she's touching! That's - 

Wait, does this mean she could -

(Somewhere in the back of her mind, she remembers Dad telling her sternly not to use her power. But... surely just once, she's been so good and it hurts so much,)

She pulls open the drawer under her bed, breathing a bit too fast, mind barely thinking through the implications of anything besides the burning desire to know,

She digs past the pile of clothes she put to hide it and pulls out the huggable stuffed doggy that she once called Ms Weiner. She wraps her good arm around it, holding it tight, and - 

[97 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes, and 4 seconds ago]: Kani pulls Ms Weiner out of her backpack, and then shoves it to the back of the the drawer, hiding it behind layers of clothes she doesn't wear anymore. (Kani's hands are shaking horribly. She's weak, cowardly, she can't bear to see it, she needs to hide it - Thrana wouldn't want her to beat herself up - but Thrana is DEAD, so it really doesn't MATTER what she wants, does it!!!)

[97 days, 7 hours, 51 minutes, and 52 seconds ago]: First responders have already come and gone. Kani stuffs Ms Weiner into her backpack and then puts it on her back. (Kani has stopped crying, at this point, but she's still hyperventilating a bit. Nothing will ever be okay again.) 

[97 days, 8 hours, 22 minutes, and 37 seconds ago]: Kani finishes reading the note, sobbing, and grabs Ms Weiner, squeezing it tight against her body. It still smells like Thrana. (Kani sobs harder. She should have been here. Why, why, why,)

[97 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes, and 7 seconds ago]: Thrana gives Ms Weiner one final squeeze before placing it down among her other belongings that she wanted to be sure went back to their rightful owners. The note is already written. (Thrana is almost done. So close, now. She's almost free. Party's almost over. The helium will take her home.)

[97 days, 22 hours, 41 minutes, and 40 seconds ago]: Thrana is sobbing, lying on her bed, clinging to Ms Weiner. (Thrana can't stop thinking about the conversation at the bus stop in the rain, about the wretched party, and every time she closes her eyes and even when they're open it's like she's back there, like she never left, like her whole life is this unending cycle of torment, of finding Colu and then being left behind again and again and again. It doesn't stop. It hurts and it'll never, ever stop,)

[98 days, 10 hours, 12 minutes, and 21 seconds ago]: Thrana holds Ms Weiner under one arm while she waves goodbye to Kani as the bus leaves. (Thrana thinks about how easy it is, now, to keep a smile on her face while her insides churn horribly, but - poor Kani's been taking care of her all week, and she's obviously at the end of her rope. Thrana can manage. She doesn't want to be any more of a burden than she has been...)

[98 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 13 seconds ago]: Kani hands Ms Weiner to Thrana, telling her to take it with her when they go back to her place tonight. (Kani is so worried about Thrana and so angry about everything that's happened to her, but - she's also impressed with how brave her best friend is. She hopes she's helping as much as Thrana says she is, and wants them to have something to remember her by.)

[99 - 

- and then her power cuts out as the rest of her brain does, the backlash hitting her all at once and knocking her further unconscious than she's ever been in her life.

When her Dad comes back in to check on her a few minutes later, she's lying crumpled in her bed, Ms Weiner held tightly in her arm. 

She's barely breathing, and she doesn't respond when shaken.