"And we all know I never do that. Usually it's Tae-hwan who does the telling. That's why you should never kiss him."

"Wow, hyung, aren't you meant to be my wingman?"

"It's not you, it's our lack of compatibility," she says to Tae-hwan apologetically. (She winks at Min Woo-young.) 

(Hopefully he's not actually insecure and hiding it well!, she thinks halfheartedly, but she knows it's a reach. Tae-hwan is pretty great, but he's not hard to read.)

He winks back.

Heeeeee is not actually going to say that he could absolutely get over the amount of 'meh' they were. Especially if Woo-young were involved. Threesomes with hyung are hot but Flywheel's going thru stuff.

"Anyway, think your reaction time's good enough that you could catch us if I fuck up this new plan?"

(She's glad he doesn't say it! She doesn't want to tell him that even though she likes him and thinks he's neat and would absolutely in theory be down for a threesome she's ✨ goooooot prooooblems ✨ and doesn't really want to be fucking anybody right now! She's not stupid and self-destructive enough to have missed that, at least. LOL. LMAO.) 

Ah, okay right right back to work.

She thinks about it, because she does want to be sure, and then nods. "Yeah. I can just keep my sensory power up - it gives me really really good reaction times for things happening within my domain. And... I'll let go of one of my weights when you first link us to the worm?" 

"Sounds good. Let's do it."

"Mapping time!" He opens the map.

Some distant part of her is still feeling a bit funny, so she pretends to swoon dramatically into Tae-hwan's arms when it's time for him to pick her up. She gets her weight ready.

She is funny.

And then it is vworping time.

HELLOOOOOOOO-

No,

Goodbye.

As before, the worm inverts.

And then they stop, only about a foot above the floor.

And Flywheel snaps out of her power-trance a moment later. "Nice!"

They drop harmlessly that last foot. "Pog, that was awesome!"

(She's actually so curious about him having learned English in a way where he says Pog, it's charming and it's unusual, but she's exceeded some kind of internal budget for now and will have to ask later.)

"Good catch!" She's a fair bit less backlashed, and the worm is still very dead.

"Let's do another, let's do another!"

"If worms were popping that often Toronto would look much worse for wear," says Woo-young, but here's the map.

And Tae-hwan is skipping from foot to foot cheerfully- "Okay can we not be here though, I don't want to wait in the shadow of a dead worm."

Vworp.

And while the two of them guide each other...

One down.

Only at a 2 on my backlash scale, we changed how we're doing this.

Might be able to do three or four if nothing goes wrong.

That's GREAT