"Do I have to show up in uniform or will the hair do the trick?"

"No need for a specific uniform.  I would, er, really suggest you wear something we provide, or get your measurements to Bill if you want something specific to wear during the, er, guiding.  We've really thoroughly forbidden photography, but we've really had too many flashing incidents because someone wanted a stretch or caught a belt loop on something."

"Why would you be using your power on me? I'm not injured."

"It's a safety thing, in case a patient does something, er, unfortunate.  There's almost never a real problem, but I want to keep my track record."

"They might like elbow me in the ribs and break something?"

"Usually what happens is someone breaks a game controller or a phone and pieces of it shrapnel everywhere, or they're playing with a fidget toy and it snaps.  When you were a kid, did you ever do the thing where you hold a pencil under tension in your hands, then let it go and it catapults across the room?  Like that, but moreso."  Tim makes the "fling-a-pencil-with-your-hands-as-the-catapult" gesture.

"No, I was a rubber band shooting kind of kid."

"A real fan of the classics."  Little grin!

She laughs. "Okay, so I'll have to get some standard-issue stretchy shorts and whatnot, at least till I'm used to it?"

"Pretty much.  Everything I wear is elastic these days, just in case.  Aside from that, you just have to, er.  Guide me.  For four ten hours, depending on how willing you are to lay there.  It's not exactly difficult, just kind of boring."

"Do I have to be awake? I'm not a squirmy sleeper, I've been doing overnights with my current partner and she says I'm not."

"No'm, you can nap to your heart's content.  If you do, I'd bring a sleep mask and maybe a set of replaceable earmuffs.  We do video games and have a movie every few days."  Really easy, except for how hard it is to just.  Stay on top of someone.

"And the video game controllers are like paper plates, if somebody geeshes one? Do we all coordinate on a game and use the big screen or does everybody have their own?"

"I've got a local guy with a 3-D printer who just replaces the old covers, usually the electronics are fine.  Except for the one guy who almost got kicked out, he threw his against the wall and broke it.  We have eight screens, they're built into the wall.  The big screen is mostly just used for movie night, it's too much for one person.  Well, we did have a tournament night once, but that doesn't really count."

"Cool. I'm not a huge video game person but as things for during work hours go I'll take it over sleeping, I don't like the overnights because I can't live anywhere really if I sleep at work."

"Yeah, that makes sense, you get off work at 5 o'clock and you're up all night with noplace to go and to do."

"Way it currently works is I start work at nine p.m. and I'm there till six in the morning. Sure, I have to sleep sometime anyway, but it eats my evenings and I never see my apartment and all I get out of it besides the check is early bird specials. But you work normal business hours, I could catch a nap here and then go to a party till three in the morning once I know who throws good parties around here."

Blink blink.  Well.  "Er, right.  Well, we do keep business hours unless something comes up.  It hasn't, yet, but you never know, somebody might urgently need assistance.  It's still strictly optional for you, but it might happen sometime."

"Oh it's not such a big deal if it's a one-off, everybody knows things come up."

"Right, sometimes it might actually be an emergency that my power works on."  In a flying pig dungeon, maybe.

"Yeah. Can I see the main healing place?"

"Yes'm."  Timothy will guide his guide down the stairs, into the center of the room.  It's pretty cozy, especially if you like cozy twilight!  There are pillows everywhere on the ground, some of them big enough to cuddle on.  "It doesn't really look like much, but it's not like an esper needs much equipment.  If you have furniture preferences, we can probably set something up for you."

"Are you ma'aming me, I'm older than you but I'm not old..." She does like pillows, and pokes a few of them experimentally.

"Errr, no?  I mean, yes.  I mean.  Maman raised me to do that to, er, everyone.  Almost everyone."

There's a good variety!  One of them is 'lawn consistency', another is 'squiiiishh', but most of them are pretty average levels of squish.  Generally closer to 'matrress' than 'bean bag', but there's a good spectrum going on.