Nodnod! "I can do that when I'm with you. Though we did think we'll be taking a lot of separate dungeons this confluence." 

"Yeah.  And you're always welcome, whenever I'm - trying to figure out what I'm thinking, on a verbal level."  He's not thrilled about running dungeons separate from his partner, but.  He starts putting action items on the board, thinking.  "Last one is the local anesthetic thing.  I could bring lidocaine or something like it, and just supersoaked injuries with it.  I think the problem is that if I touch it, I go numb.  And that could be a problem in a dungeon.  So I don't think I want to do that, but maybe Bill will come up with something."

He finishes scribbling, then plops himself on the desk next to Sara.  He helps himself to a couple of grapes.  "Anything you think I should be thinking about?"

"I think you lost that 'talk to Uisa about what she does about backlashes' point, but that isn't something you can do anything about just now, anyway." She shrugs, offering him a piece of canteloupe. 

Aww, she picked him a good one!  Ahhh.  Chompf.  “Yeah, that’s a later problem.  I - I’m not trying to dodge responsibility?  But I almost want to write this whole stupid thing off as just bad luck.  What were the odds that I’d run into an undisclosed psych backlashed esper with life-threatening injuries, anyway?”

"Not inconsiderable, I think," she points out (along with her fork). "During a confluence, you might work with many different espers. You will probably run into more before this is over." 

Well.  He’s not thrilled to hear that.  He swipes a strawberry slice and eats it grumpily.

Poor Tim. She offers him another off her fork in apology. 

Resentful nomf.  Is it weird that he likes the secondhand guiding from this thinking about it makes it weird, Tim.  He sighs.  "You're right, it's just - nobody knew what her backlash was, and I didn't even realize she was backlashed 'till I touched her, and even after that, I had no idea that it had anything to do with needing pain control."  It's not fair.

"I do need to figure out what you do in this kind of Consent Hell situation.  It wasn't - unprecedented or anything.  Just.  My number happened to come up."