"They drew porn."

He chokes on his spit and starts coughing. "Of us?"

Snicker. "Yes. There was also fanfiction but I couldn't read it at the time so I don't know if it's any good."

"You know, now that my brain is no longer splattered on the wall of that idea, it's..."

"It's?"

"I'm curious. It could be inspiring."

"I'll forward it to you." He collects his pants and the phone therein to do this. "Also we did successfully inspire a Malaysian gay to optimism."

"...really?"

"Yeah, I can send you that too. It was sweet."

"Yeah, I'd... like that."

Send.

He's not actually tearing up because he's not the type to but if he were the type to he would be. "Oh."

"I usually don't reply to stuff but I answered that one. And the one that was really for Cricket but he dictated."

He pulls Haru into a hug again. "I am having some unexpected feelings about the idea of having had a positive impact on someone's life like that."

"Oh? ... good ones? Presumably?"

"Yeah. Just... I don't really know just what."

"You're out of practice with the good ones."

"Ha. Yeah. I am."

"Better experience some more of 'em and get the hang of it!"

So long as he's with Haru everything is good.

"—I meant to tell you and forgot. The thing you suggested, about asking if people were comfortable being pinged by my powers, that went over well. And I didn't really feel tempted to do anything more."

"That's good!"

"Mmhm. I'm still not entirely sure what to tell people that I've worked with a lot before, though; your suggestion was a good fallback but it does leave the impression that I'm kind of incompetent for not having noticed it in all these years..." The ways in which Jaeha is incompetent are unrelated to that.

"I don't think it's necessarily going to be hugely alarm-raising for most people if they realize that you were doing it all along and just decided to start being more conscientious about asking. It is a risk, I'll grant."

"Yeah. Mm. There's maybe a line to be walked about how having you as a partner might've changed things. In a mechanistic way, I mean, not in a 'it turns out I was evil but I'm not evil anymore' way."

"Feel free to blame me for things as expedient, naturally."