It's very clear that power usage has stopped and it's time for more efficient guiding to take place. But she is not to take that action based on what is clear. If clarity moves her to initiate before the words that were chosen in advance, or to guide more efficiently than that, it might mean that she will not get to ever take a correct action again.

She continues to take the most correct action that is safe. She clenches her jaw but not her fingers, and remains in contact, and holds still.

...after about five solid minutes of guiding (and an extended mental war with herself between pointlessness and protocol), Causal Web manages to open her mouth and whisper "...done."

That has to be close enough. She makes sure to think about it for twenty seconds, in words, and she still thinks "done" counts as "done using my powers, or something similar". She cannot be impulsive, if it's ambiguous, but she's almost certain...

Why did she think that would matter. Is she stupid.

After waiting and thinking, it does still seem true, that she gets to do what she should do.

She moves with indecorous haste to gain access to the mouth of the entity she is guiding, with her own. Her tongue pushes in to move against the other tongue like it is the only achievable and rewarding task in the world, and her limbs wrap around the rest of the body. 

-oh. well does it really matt- it sure feels nice.

It feels so nice. It's exactly what is supposed to happen, and it's allowed to happen, and it helps, and the helping feels good, so much better than external skin contact.

...right. She's supposed to get more involved with the process. 

She can definitely do that. 

Well, that's quite a good sign that also somewhat improves the effectiveness of this activity. Emily does not slow the movements of her mouth against Causal Web's, but the rest of her body relaxes slightly.

It takes a fair bit of high bandwidth guiding activity before Causal Web can push past her backlash enough to start taking notes, finger twitching.

 ...Emily appears to have taken on quite a lot of backlash, this time around. Doesn't matter, of course  .....well, no it might? She'll make a quick note. Just in case. 

High-bandwidth guiding, and contact, and Causal Web is doing her magic stenography, and everything is fine! Emily tries to ignore the patterns and focus on memorizing the important things to do later.

The guiding continues. Flesh to flesh, mouth to mouth, tongue to tongue.

Her mind slows the rate at which it lies to her about the pointlessness of every possible action she could take, minute by minute. As thinking gets easier, she gets more done on her commscreen. 

It takes the better part of an hour for them to fully guide away all of the backlash that she'd racked up.

Wow, doing things sounds so nice! But at least there is guiding, which is the right thing to be doing!

When they finish up this process, Causal Web will break mouth contact and go for some water. 

"...Are you hungry?", she asks, after drinking half a bottle. "I'm going to order lunch."

Time for water indeed, and some mild stretches. The water is important.

"I could eat!"

"Does Indian food work for you?" (She's correcting her notes at the moment, and cracks a small smirk at something she's remembering.)

(She doesn't even have to try very hard not to wonder what that's about, now.) "Yes, that works."

There's now a menu for an Indian place floating in front of Emily! It's a copy of the one in front of Causal Web, who rapidly adds a saag paneer, an order of garlic naan, veggie samosas, and a mango lassi to the cart.

(Jenny recc'd this place when she mentioned she was going to London, and despite her many, many differences in preference with Jenny, they do both like good Indian food, so she's interested in trying it.)

She checks that she can operate the screen by touch, then looks through the menu. Obviously she has to get the fish pakora, and then the matar paneer looks good if she gets it mild, with paratha for a starch.

Food: successfully added on the floating screen.

Then she can put the order in! It'll be there in 25 minutes. 

She pulls her notes back up, and... Oh, right.

 "You don't need to take that much backlash, if you don't want to," she says, vaguely awkwardly.

Awkward indeed, but perhaps they can pretend it isn't. "Ah, it's not a problem. I wouldn't take more than was a good idea. But thank you."

Huh. Well, fair enough. 

Anything else.... 

...right. "If you can feel me stop using my power for more than ten seconds, you can initiate mouth to mouth guiding even if I haven't said anything. It's fine to wait for the signal, if you prefer that, but when I'm that backlashed... it can take me a while." 

"I can do that!" That's so concrete and observable and unambiguous!