"...Ahuh.  - Previously I got to sleep by asking you what you would do if various sorts of emergencies happened to us, but.  Now I guess the answers would all be like, you'd cling to me and then we'd both die, or something."

"...I could probably call 911 if we were allowed to do that?"

"But you couldn't, say, fly me out the window in the event of a fire."

"I am the best in the world at many things..."

"- Sure, okay.  Svetka, how would you save us if there was a fire."

"Under most circumstances I would notice quickly enough to follow the standard hotel procedure.  It is possible I would decide to carry Haru if the flames had gotten closer than I expect they could.  If they got much closer, I would carry you simultaneously down a fireless flight of stairs.  If they blocked the door, I would take one of you at a time out the window, which I would expect to leave one party in the room for approximately twenty seconds.  Less if you were both conscious."

"Why less if we were conscious?"

"I would not have to set you down so carefully.  And you would not be dead weight, which would speed the descent especially if it allowed me to use both hands."

"I guess that makes sense."

"And what if someone else came after us..."

It turns out Svetka has put an awful lot of thought into this sort of thing; she can elaborate for as long as the espers want.  (In the course of this it comes out that she's got someone who's going to leave them a car and drive the previous one away, among other contingencies.)

It takes Julien upwards of forty-five minutes to stop asking questions, but yeah, he goes down eventually.

Haru inserts himself into the conversation (who's the car person? how did she come to have a car person who works for her and not SHADOW? What does SHADOW stand for anyway?) but falls asleep faster than Julien and then only contributes random words and snuggles.

The car person doesn't work for her per se; he was advantaged in breaking out of prison by her retrieving someone else and they've traded a few favors back and forth over the years.  She deflects on filling out the letters but he can get her to admit that she expects him to think they're stupid.

Julien wakes up after only about two hours.  He lies there for a minute, and then - tries to extract himself to go to the bathroom?

Whimpery clinging!

Or he will not do that.  Or he's just here forever, apparently.

Svetka leans over to peer concernedly at Haru.  She notices Julien's awake and makes eye contact with him.

"In the event of a disease outbreak, I would call upon one of several independent contacts I have in the area who could give us access to isolated locations.  If any of us began displaying symptoms, I would..."

Fine okay, he can get another hour or so.

"Pineapple," is apparently what Haru has to say about that.

And if after that 'nother hour, Julien tries to very slowly and carefully inch to the side of the bed, with long gaps in between his movements...?

He can get a little farther than last time but Haru does nooooot want to be left alone in this bed.

"Svetka?" he whispers.