Yeah this is extremely valid of them! They should in fact probably evacuate! But probably this worm is not actually going to get to them! It might've messed with the foundations, though.

Oh, wow.

The DRT will shortly arrive on-scene, evacuate the building, and then bring a sensor to confirm the results, but the outcome is promising. 

Tae-hwan is so cute when he gets to play hero.

Cara only has a little bit of backlash when she gets the message asking her if she can meet up with Seo Tae-hwan and get a rundown on how he's been using his power and see if she can do something similar, so before she responds on my way she remembers to stops herself and think about whether or not that's actually what she wants to be doing right now. 

But it's a confluence and there's a fucking A-tier dungeon breach destroying her favorite city, so obviously she's going. (She texts Traceless with an update on what she's doing and where as she waits for the self-driving car to come get her.)

Bon courage!

Merci!

She looks up Seo Tae-hwan on the ride over.

Right, she thought she recognized the name, he's one of the three Quasar espers with a power similar to hers - his is the one that's the least similar, though, it's about relative velocities and notably totally ignores conservation of energy.

Cara's a lot better at the relevant kinds of physics than she was a year ago. She doesn't like it any more than she used to (she might like it a lot less, actually) but it's part of the job, and it's not like it was a bad use of her backlashed time.

Flywheel should be there in a few minutes.

Roger that.

And indeed, a few minutes later, Flywheel arrives! She's a young woman wearing what looks like a motorcycler's outfit, though she's currently missing the jacket and helmet (she's carrying a pretty big duffel bag and a backpack that's emitting a quiet hum, though, so maybe they're in one of those?).

She has deep blue eyes and hair that matches it. Like many espers, she's very attractive to conventional sensibilities. (And she looks like she's spent a lot of time crying, recently.)

As she approaches Seo Tae-hwan and his partner, she bows. "Seo Tae-hwan-nim, it's an honor."

Blink. "You, uh, really don't need to call me that, it's cool, I'm not all that." Wow it sounds so much weirder in English. "Um, hi. Nice to meet you?"

UGH she's being weird already get over yourself. There's more important things going on here.

"Ah, sorry. I'm Flywheel. I was told to come here and meet you for power tes -" 

wait is that Min Woo-young

"Hello. It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Min Woo-young," he says, bowing.

...his hyung is so ridiculous.

Bow!!

"The pleasure is all mine! I -" do not say 'I wrote my final paper in Modern Logistics on you' do not do not do not "- ah, I'm a fan of your work."

...That's. A bit better but she still kinda hates it.

"Oh! Thank you, it's not really all that."

Flywheel can't help raising an eyebrow. "Your power singlehandedl-" shut up shut up shut up! 

"- ah, I mean. I think this is a matter on which reasonable people might disagree," she says lightly, which again is not the thing she super wanted to be saying but it's better than saying nothing or fumbling and her idiot mouth did not leave her a lot of options!

"Hyung was just being Korean about it," Tae-hwan says in a stage whisper.

Flywheel opens her mouth and then - pauses -

"Well, that's his prerogative, given that he is in fact Korean." The delivery and facial expressions are pretty good, if you ignore the seconds-long loading screen. (Maybe it's her backlash?)

"You know, I have this friend, he's really smart and stuff, he went to SNU for econ, and when I introduced him to hyung after we'd just partnered he almost had a conniption. I think he might've said something like that, too, how hyung had singlehandedly revolutionised the tranportation industry in Korea... That was like five years ago though."

"Tae-hwannnn, you're embarrassing me."

They're cute! ...ow?

...if she's pretending she knows how to be a person, she could... ally with her fellow kinetic esper, and -

Flywheel nods cheerfully. "Oh, yeah, that's pretty out of date." She pauses, just a moment. "It's worldwide, now. The best postcog in the world had to found a think-tank just to figure out how we'll all cope when he retires."