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He is not backlashed enough to insist on making conversation if she doesn't seem to want to.

The silo is an apartment in the same building as June's.

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She doesn't seem to want much of anything, really. She's easy to lead into a building, though.

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"Do you need anything?"

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Does she wh - oh. Right. 

"...I don't know." (She's supposed to be clear about her uncertainty, when she can.)

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"The last time this came up did it turn out you needed something?"

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Did she? (...she's backlashed. She's supposed to find Willowbark and let her takes care of things when she's backlashed. But she can't. Because Willowbark is dead-)

...Flywheel begins to cry.

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"Do you have any existing processes for guiding with secondaries."

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...headshake. 

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"Okay. Uh, I'm going to propose that we get a few layers off, and snuggle, and I will do a little power use to get you down faster and we'll see if that helps, and I'll be on the phone with some people during that time. Does that seem okay?"

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Nod.

(She's supposed to try and be proactive, when she can, so....)

Flywheel removes her tattered jacket, revealing a few bruises on her arms but no additional cuts, and then begins taking her shirt off, too.

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Seems reasonable but he'll stop her if she tries to de-bra. He's got dust gear on, because Arrakis, and that all goes off in a neat pile and the normal shirt under it too.

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Flywheel does not de-bra proactively, no. ("A few layers" implies "not all of them", after all, and she's a lot better at thinking these things through, backlashed or not, than she used to be.)

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Couch, snuggles, queuing up some phone numbers, and a bit of hovering.

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Flywheel is easy to guide in this manner! And they're compatible enough that even low-bandwidth methods like cuddling are pretty efficient. 

(She doesn't seem to mind that he's on the phone.)

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She did not seem really likely to! He's calling around to see who's worked with her and Willowbark and see if he can figure out who needs to be told what happened and how Flywheel can fit into the Arrakis response and also talking to evac-related people.

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It might be faster to ask Flywheel some of these questions, but Haru can discover via the magic of phone calls that she's been working dungeons in the area for the last few days, that she and Willowbark normally work out of Cleveland, and that Flywheel has a moderately versatile sensory power in addition to her kinetic energy manipulation.

Phone calls don't turn up any obvious people to notify - neither of them seem to have known public associates beyond the "regular coworkers" level.

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When one call goes to voicemail he does ask, "Do you know if Willowbark had family?"

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"...she had a brother that she never talked to."

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"Nobody she did talk to though?"

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...he probably doesn't just mean family. "She was... distant friends with a few other medical espers. And she talked to the younger sister of her last partner, sometimes."

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"Was she in touch with her last partner?"

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"...he died a few years ago."

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"Wow. Okay. I guess I'll call Tess -" He does this and Tess picks up and he gets her dispatched on further steps of finding out who in the world might need to know this, and then. "Do you have anybody else who should know about your major life news?"

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Flywheel visibly thinks about this. 

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...then she starts sobbing desperately.

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