"I'm sorry that happened to you."

"Yeah me too. Were you like really hard to kidnap? I was pretty easy to kidnap. She broke into the house and knocked out my babysitter, because apparently you can just do that to people in spy thriller universe, and then I went very quietly, considering."

"I kind of got it twice.  Once from on my way to the hospital, by, I guess someone else from S.H.A.D.O.W., and then this person had to fight them for me."

"Gosh a whole fight scene. Was it cinematic?"

"I was blindfolded."

"What a ripoff. Spy movie universe and you don't get to watch the fight scene. - this person's name is Svetka. She's an internationally famous spy thriller person because that's a thing here."

"Fantastic."

"Is there anywhere you have wanted to visit?" Svetka wonders, speeding up to tear through some construction barriers. "I cannot yet drop you off at the halls of Parliament."

"The halls of Parliament was metonymy. I am somewhat impaired in enjoying most possible tourist attractions right now and even if I were raring to go to the zoo I'd want to stop somewhere with a more rapidly accessible bathroom first."

There's a trench cut through the pavement which Svetka is not slowing down for.  Surely that little lip of upturned asphalt isn't enough to ramp them across, is it?  - No, but that conveniently-positioned weird wagon apparently is.  The car thuds on the landing hard enough that it seems like it must have broken somehow, maybe, but nope, it barely drops any speed.  "It is more a question of what direction we aim out of the city in."

Julien starts hyperventilating.

Snuggle? Snuggles will help with the being scared? "Uh is there a direction that involves less cinematic chase scenes on the way, I don't think either of us is really in the mood."

"- Not so much a direction, no.  I can try to keep all four tires on the ground going forward."

"Thank you."  The thing with snuggles is that the two of them are currently subject to a lot of changes in momentum, so maybe Julien will just roll up their sleeves and get as much arm-based contact as he can.

Aw yisss arm based contact guiding is great. "Does it help if you are distracted or will it have to be purely selfish attention seeking on my part to propose conversation topics."

"It's - I mean, you can - I don't know.  It doesn't matter, you can propose conversation topics."

"Do I think of a good codename. Since I have powers worth codenaming."

"You're Traceless."

"I guess that's okay. A lot of the good stuff is taken. How did I meet you, was I poking people in hospitals even though I've got dungeoneer quality powers?"

"You rescued me from a dungeon and then kept somewhat in contact because of your backlash and because I'm majoring in dungeon mats.  So a nurse saw a text message from you and asked for you to come over."

"Huh. That's lucky I guess."

"I think she actually wanted you to check on somebody else.  They pretty much had me pegged for normal crazy."

"Was the other patient an esper?"

"No, none of them."

"Oh.

"Am I a good esper, did I like, rescue you well - obviously you're alive and stuff, I mean, but -"