Nitro can let Kuroko climb on.

It's not really any harder than giving Lucky piggyback rides had been before her awakening.  She knew she was strong now, she knew she'd lifted that woman out of her car with no difficulty, but now, in a peaceful moment...

She just "huh"s quietly to herself about it.

"If you do dungeons you'll probably be doing a lot of carrying people, cause they want fliers for ones that are hard to navigate on foot."

"That makes sense.  What sort of stuff do you do in a dungeon?"

"Rescues mostly, because my backlash makes me want to interact with people, and I can cover other people with my stealth field. Not many other people but it's great for rescues. Sometimes scouting, if they don't have an actual sensor available."

Nodnod.

"...so how does doing a dungeon, like, work."

"In what sense? Usually it gets organized through your agent. It's their job to know the specifics about you and your powers, and what dungeons you'd be a good fit for, and what kind of workload you want. Most people do one or two dungeons a day when they're working, with one or two days off a week but you'll have to figure out what works for you. The DRT has access to an international database of espers, though of course they usually look at the local or semi local database unless there's a need for something very specific. But flying is pretty general so you can probably expect to be working relatively local most of the time. Maybe in Oregon or something if they really need several fliers. Or there's a big emergency someplace, like what's going on here. Though I volunteered, myself. But, anyway they contact your agent who confirms the details and makes sure it actually works with your particular needs and wants, and then they pass it on to you.to accept."

"What sort of stuff's in this database?  Would somebody have already put me in it?  - I pulled a woman and her baby out of one of those runaway cars and handed them over to the DRT, it's the first big esper thing I've done."

"Probably not. Usually you get an agent first and they help you out with that. You can do it yourself, but it's usually easier to have somebody who's used to the paperwork help you with it. The database will have your codename, and powers and contact information for your agent.  Anything else is optional. Technically codename is optional too, not everyone uses one. Lots of people keep their civvie names off the database entirely, and some people keep their backlash off it. Yours seems logistically difficult to hide, but you can keep it off the semi-public database if you want."

...that sounds not so bad to her, though she's kind of still expecting all of this esper shit to come with surprise fine print.  "What have you got in the database?  What's it called?"

"Racehorse. You'll only be able to see the most public facing version without an official account, but most of my profile is public, except my last name."

"...all right if I look you up later?"  She's curious.  Later because right now she's on a treadmill giving Kuroko a piggyback ride with her eyes shut.

"No problem. I wouldn't have that stuff on a public database if I minded people seeing it."

"Fair enough.  Do big emergencies like this one happen all the time or is this a Confluence thing."

"Mostly a confluence thing. Sometimes big S-ranks will cause an emergency outside of a confluence but multiple large scale breaches like this aren't normal outside of a confluence."

"Mm-hmm," she says.  "And nobody knows how long a confluence is supposed to last, outside of a few months."

"Yeah. It's rough.

"Is that why you're in town, for the confluence?  You don't sound like you're from San Diego."

"I'm from Toronto. I came because Menagerie is here and the Ontario Monster Park wants the monsters for a petting zoo, if they kill it this time, and is offering a million dollars each."

 - she actually stops walking, for a second, and lets the treadmill slide them backwards, and then she has to half-jog half-stumble for a few steps to get back into position.

"How much fucking money???"

"Yeah, it's a lot of money. I'm not gonna keep it all because it would just be kinda silly."

"How much do you make??"

"I made a couple of hundred thousand doing dungeons this year and I'll probably get more next year, because I was increasing my workload a little even before the confluence."

She - well she already kind of can't fathom making a couple hundred thousand dollars a year but she can't fathom making any amount of money that would make her this cavalier about - 

" - how many of these things are you expecting to catch while you're here?"

"Dunno. I caught a bunch this morning but there's other people out there catching them. There's also no guarantee they'll find the core, this dungeon's been around for a while, and if they don't I'll just get paid for containing them."

Dunno!!!  I just caught a handful of millions of dollars!!!  I haven't counted exactly how many!!!  You know!!!  Whatever!!!