- Fine, he will not disappear his entire face into Haru in the middle of this gas station.  "...Should I?"

"Not especially."

Could he PLEASE disappear his entire face into Haru though that feels so much better -

Well, Svetka can shepherd them over to the checkout and its associated teenager who gives them all a weird look and then a scared look but ultimately lets them complete the transaction without incident -

"- Actually shoes?  Haru should have shoes?  If - if there are shoes here."

"There are not."

"It would be like a little weird for a convenience store to have shoes. It is not the thing bothering me the most at this time."

"But it could make a difference if - if something happens."

"If we run into too much broken glass to go around she can carry me."

"Okay."

Back to the car.  ...She re-handcuffs Julien but not Haru.

That makes sense because Haru is dyspraxic and can't shut up and Julien is paranoid and could probably make a creditable run for it. "Is it okay if I take off my shirt."

"Yes."  Julien starts taking his as off as is topologically convenient with the cuffs.

SNUGGLE oh that's way better. "Oh that's way better," he says because he can't shut up.

"Yeah."  Pet pet glom.

Svetka turns up the heat and goes back to driving.

"So what do you... do... you were studying dungeon materials, any exciting developments in the last slash next five years?"

"Uh, there's... there are definitely things - wow this feels better when you are also awakening - I also work at Starbucks.  Or used to.  I went in the first two days of my awakening but I didn't last very long through the second one."

"You went in to work while awakening?"

"I didn't realize that I was."  Nuzzle nuzzle.

"Mmmmmm - you went in to work while having awakening amounts of being scared of things??"

"Yeahhh.  I had to make this guy muffins, it sucked."

"Were you scared... of... the muffins... how does that work..."

"I was scared that if I didn't do perfect customer service that something really bad would happen.  - Also I was afraid that any food or water would poison me, so I wasn't having any."

"Oh no. Is that why you didn't buy any snacks. There is more than one way for awakening to kill you."