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Her fathers take her to the hospital the next morning, worried about how faint her pulse is and the fact that she hasn't woken up. (They let her keep Ms Weiner. They want her to have something comforting and familiar there, if when she wakes up).
A coma. She's in a coma. They suspect backlash is involved, but don't really have a way of telling, without an esper to help. Dave starts posting on esper sites, as many as he can find, with his best description of her backlash.
heeeeee issssss just doing his job, just doing his job, just doing his job...
She nods in affirmation (location sharing is already on) and heads doorwards.
Grocery time!
...this grocery store is Different. (Kani is not Canadian and has honestly not spent much time away from the west coast of the US, so her standards for Different are not super high.)
...she's got plenty of time, though, so maybe it's just... not a big deal?
She wanders the aisles for a whiles, taking in the sights and marveling a bit about how isolating her headphones are.
Then she grabs a cart and gets supplies to make banana bread, some weird candies she's never seen before, some frozen potato products for snacking on, some seasonings to improve her burrito fillings, and some ice cream.
It ends up being more groceries than she could have carried comfortably before awakening, but it turns out that in addition to a power nobody wants her to use and the world's stupidest fucking backlash ever, she did also get body upgrades, so there's that.
...awww, he couchsleeps like Dad does. (She valiantly resists the urge to prank him about this).
She is going to make her banana bread quietly as possible (though she can't stop the oven from beeping when it finishes preheating), because she wants to see his reaction when he realizes he slept through a sizeable chunk of babysitting time.
The beep gets him and he sits up groggily. "Oh, you're back," he says. "Find everything you needed?"
Awww, darn. She gives him an awkward thumbs up and puts her first tin of banana bread into the oven.
In about an hour or so she'll offer him some banana bread to taste-test. (It's pretty good.)
Yay! She likes it too.
She'll leave some out to cool for Epione and then read stuff online and listen to music for a while.
Epione gets back at the same time as yesterday, again watching her feet carefully and generally watchful and cautious. She inspects the banana bread in detail - visually on both sides of the slice and also sniffing it - but then eventually gives it a bite.
She's listening to music (very quietly on one ear of headphone) and being a source of hand-holding and is being SO NONCHALANT about this. (!)
Assuming the music is calibrated to be very quiet to esper hearing, a feat which may require third party software, it will not disturb Epione as she picks her way through the banana bread, leaving the browned bits from the edges mostly uneaten.
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