"Yeah, that's the guy! He's pretty cool. Big help to me and April—that's the blonde girl Uisa was wearing as a backpack."

(Uisa is just the Korean word for healer.)

She doesn't say anything.

He's a little less worried now that he's seen her make conversation in an at least slightly normal way, but he also doesn't really have anywhere to be until everybody gets out of surgery. And a little less is not none.

Well, she's not going to start a conversation. 

Or move.

The vibes, man, the vibes. Well, either her partner(?) will show up, or the people she was with will get out of surgery and hopefully have more context on her deal than he does. He stays put, mostly looking over toward the surgery room but sometimes down at the blue girl.

Well, the fourth time he looks at her, she... suddenly becomes a decent approximation of a normal person? (It happens extremely quickly and involves a bunch of minor body language changes. It's a tiny bit unsettling.)

"So how'd you and April end up here?", she asks, smiling a bit at him.

.......sure, he'll roll with it.

"So, we were in her house, it fell down, Aumento dug us out, and then it turned out the reason she's been having a rough time the past few days is she's in the middle of awakening. She was helping guide Aumento for a while, then switched to Uisa. I'm kinda being her unofficial PA."

"She's compatible with both the healers in the city right now? Wow. Lucky break for all three of them - and everyone who ends up here, I suppose." 

"Yeah, no kidding. I'm pretty happy about it. April is too, and not just because," his voice takes on the cadence of one quoting an oft-repeated phrase, "Awakening Fucking Sucks."

"They do call it hell week," she says, like someone talking about a stretch of bad weather and not something she presumably also went through at some point in her life.

"They sure do. Everybody's been really nice about it."

"Well, you know. It's something all espers have to go through? So I think it's usually pretty easy to be understanding about it." 

"Yeah, makes sense. Still appreciate it though."

"It does seem a nice way to spend your awakening," she says pleasantly. "Less backlash, helping people in a crisis, making professional guide money in the process... and it'll make a great story, too. Everybody wins!" 

"Yeah. Uisa said she's gonna buy her a new house."

"That sounds about right, yeah." She pauses for a moment. "Did you know that Uisa is just the Korean word for healer? They don't use codenames at all, over there." 

"Huh. Yeah, I think I heard they don't do codenames, but I didn't put it together. I guess if you're gonna call one person 'Healer' without even codenames as an excuse she's a pretty good pick."

"Yeah, seems pretty hard to contest." 

...she glances down the hallway that the three Korean espers disappeared to, looking vaguely concerned.

"Want me to go check on them for you? I shouldn't interrupt while they're busy, but I can probably see how it's going."

...She looks at him but doesn't respond. 

...hm. Yeah, she's had trouble with questions before, hasn't she? (Is thinking about her backlash a privacy violation...? No, don't start down that road, you'll go crazy. Just be normal about it.)

"I think I will," he decides. "Back in a sec."

Slight nod. (Her expressive body language is gone again.)

Whatever is going on with her, hopefully Traceless (is he remembering that right?) will fix it.

In the meantime, how are they doing in there?

Doing fineish probably! As he gets there, he almost bumps into one of the staff he's run into before. "—oh, Mr. Vasile, you're actually perfect—have you seen a blue-haired blue-eyed esper?"

"Yeah, I just came to find out for her how Legs Guy is doing."