He returns his attention to his kids and then his book.

What is he reading, anyway?

She can't see the title from there.

Well, she'll wander by, then.

He's holding the book in his lap; she can see a chapter heading that says The Clockwise Migration, though.

Huh.

"That book any good?"

"It's all right," he says absently, checking on the kids again.

"Mmhmm.  What's it about?"

"History - look, who are you, I don't recognize you, if you're looking for Fox he'll be awake in two sands."

"Not looking for anyone in particular, just thought I'd strike up a friendly conversation.  You can call me Mira.  's foreign, it doesn't mean anything in the slightest, since I imagine you're wondering.  Would you rather I left you to your reading?"

"Yes." He looks at the kids again, perhaps making sure that they don't look drowsy.

Well, she'll leave him to it.  "I can't make any promises, but if what I did to it worked like I expected it to, that tree should actually be dreamward-y."  At which point she yawns, and drowses a mouse.  "Speak of the sleep problem."  The one she didn't drowse last time, hopefully.  "Just wish I could actually see klaonso worth a - ahem," she catches herself before actually swearing.  "It'd be easier to check the results."

"Saw one going that way," he says, gesturing vaguely. "Lost track of it though."

Well.  She'll try thataway.  "Thanks, that's more than I had."

"Uh-huh."

Time to go hunt a klaon.  And then...Probably throw a rock at it?  ...She'll turn her phone on to record the results if she actually spots one of the damn things.

There is a faint ripple in the air, like a heat mirage, over there, trundling along at about five miles an hour. Its shape is indistinct but it seems largely vertical, a bit smaller than a human. It's not touching the ground.

...Record...and..."Troportation-based redoubling and harvest of a tree's anti-klaon properties test one, pebble..." ...yeet!

If this does anything it's very subtle.

"...fffffrack.  No visible effect just yet."  Well, she'll reclaim the pebble.  What if she property-transfers klaon-repellence to a bigger item, and then tries it again?

This time she misses the klaon. It does not react.

...And if she tries again, just to be sure?

The klaon changes direction around then, which makes it hard to tell if it's slowing down. And then it goes through a wall and she's lost it.

"...fucking hell.  Test results, inconclusive.  I'm leaning towards 'no' since it didn't fucking bottle rocket, but I don't know if that's just to be expected."

End recording, turn off phone.

"The really annoying thing is that I can't be sure if I just mucked up the technique.  And with no experimental results worth noting, I somehow doubt I'll get anyone else interested in trying this.  Fucking hells, this is annoying."

...She vacillates a bit, before settling on - oh.  She needs food.

Maybe there's anywhere that's not obviously failing food safety but is 'coins-I-picked-up-from-the-ground' inexpensive, but if there is, she has no idea where it'd be.