"Wanna try it out on something less deadly than a worm to get the timing right? —also how're you on backlash, who're you partnering with?"

Getting three questions in a row is an interesting thing for her backlash!

Luckily enough, she's low enough that she can just consider them and answer how she likes, instead of working through them in order (thank fucking god, can you imagine (yes, she can! vividly!))

How is she on backlash! Good question.

0. Is her mouth dry - Can't tell.
1. Does she feel gross (physically) - ...can't tell?
2. Is she tired (physically) - no, she's wide awake.

"I have a bit of backlash but not much? And, um -" 

(Her face deflates very noticeably.)

"I - don't have a primary partner anym - " (stupid, stupid) "- at the moment. Traceless has been guiding me but he also has to guide" (don't share information about June you are not going to explain her whole deal perfectly and if these two need to know someone better than you at this will handle it!) "his other partner. I should probably check with him before picking up much more." she shrugs awkwardly. 

"Oh, hmmmm..."

"Oh yeah we should check for compat."

Flywheel offers her hand.

(She - doesn't flinch. It's fine. That's fine. She would have done this anyways. Her backlash just saved her the time.)

Touch—

—nyeh.

Touch—

—oh, okay!

She is compatible with Min Woo-young that is- Nope! She's going to be normal about it.

"Oh, that's nice." Definitely a fair bit less compatibility than with Traceless or Tia but she can work with it.

(...wow, she hasn't had dumb feelings about how she's more compatible with Traceless than she is was with Tia yet! She should really schedule some time for that, it seems like the kind of thing she would want to be insane and stupid about...)

"So that can buy you a little bit of leeway, depending."

depending on - oh, on whether she's up for higher intensity guiding with him, presumably.

- wait, hold up, does that mean Min Woo-young is willing to make out with her -

Okay! Well! She might be (definitely is) insane and broken and stupid, but she's not insane and broken and stupid enough to pass on the chance to make out with Min Woo-young. (Kinda fucked up of her when Tia it's to save the city fuck off!)

"...I am potentially interested in purchasing some amount of leeway, if you're selling," she says, which is a terrible line but it communicates the thing she wants to communicate, which is that while she's obviously kind of a mess she is the kind of a mess that is down for strategically-indicated makeouts with one of the world's major economic powers.

Regardless of whether it's a terrible line it's making him giggle. "Yeah, I think I am."

Oh yay, she's getting a good grade at flirting with Min Woo-young, which is normal to want and possible to achieve! (...kinda cringe, though.)

Her face lights up about this. (...some other parts of her body language get a bit more tense, which is a bit confusing but probably easy to miss. Flywheel certainly misses it.)

Woo-young does not. "What would you be comfortable with?"

...how the fuck is she supposed to know the answer to that and does it really matter it matters to him, stupid, otherwise he wouldn't have asked!

...okay, stop being a whiny moron. Sure, she really doesn't like introspection (obviously! she doesn't like cringe-based humor or horror movies!), but it's what he wants her to do, and - just because she doesn't like it doesn't mean she can't do it.

...she could answer this question if it was someone else by asking and watching their reactions. So she can just - do that to herself, right?

"Shirtless makeouts would be fine," she says, after thinking it through. (More than that would make too many parts of her stupid, worthless brain flinch for it to be reasonable to call herself comfortable, apparently.)

"Alright. So, uh, do you want to try to hit zero before doing some powers testing?"

Oh, yeah, that'd probably be smart. (which is why she didn't think of it, one assumes.) 

Flywheel nods and then approaches, a bit shyly. 

"I'll give you some privacy. Hyung, TP me somewhere useful so you can guide her better."

And now Tae-hwan is Elsewhere, an event which is shortly followed by Woo-young being topless.

...did he just teleport his shirt off? That's... abstractly hot? (don't make it weird?? These are Professional Makeouts.) ...... Why only abstractly hot? man who give a shit 

Flywheel can less-flashily remove her own shirt (though not her bra) and close the distance between them, and she can do all of that without seeming stressed! (She can tell she's stressed, but that's fine. She wants this.)