"I'm up for chasing it if you are but you're pretty backlashed and need to ration harder till we get a break."

She nods. "...Most of this is from when we split up; grabbing momentum is expensive at a distance, but it's not bad at all up close. I think I'm fine to keep going."

"Okay." Holding hands, though. Uphill through the pinball machine. Haru notices an alien's gaze from the backlash ticking up and shoots it before they're in its range.

She will entwine her arm in his as much as possible, and keep her scanning to a minimum (she's checking occasionally if the poor victim trapped in the basement has been launched or not, and otherwise doing low-effort checks in a hoop around herself). She tries to narrate what she's doing and what she's seeing (though Haru doesn't seem very backlashed so maybe it's not necessary?) 

Her hoop doesn't catch the alien before Haru notices it - she flinches, at the gunshot, but keeps going.

He's not very backlashed, no, though he does appreciate the commentary for the additional purposes of knowing what's going on and keeping track of how functional Cara is. He's comming in occasional status reports to the base camp.

They hike all the way up the pinball machine and there indeed is the aperture that leads to the basement.

As they reach the entrance to the downward trail, she tells Haru she thinks she should keep her motionsense up while they walk, so they can't get surprise-steamrolled by a full speed pinball or victim in this enclosed space. 

"I can keep it small enough that I'll still be draining backlash on net, it'll just make it hard for me to talk to you about what I'm sensing... is that ok?" 

"As long as you're net negative on the backlash and I can feel that you are, yeah."

She leans on him and squeezes a bit. "Okay. Thanks." (...Maybe it isn't obvious to him what she's thanking him about, but she can. explain later.)

She opens her mind, relying on her grip on Haru's arm to guide her body.

Nothing, nothing -

- victim careening through the passage -

...she wasn't sensing far enough out. They're incoming too quickly for her to explain. 

That's okay. She can do this. She lets go of Haru's arm, and steps forward, reshaping her domain.

(She's at the center of [the world|a 1-meter sphere]. She's stationary.)

She needs a sink.

She fires the ray gun in her other hand, aimed at the ground.

Her power asks her if she wants the pinball's momentum. She does, thanks, but only momentarily - she puts it right back, but as angular momentum this time.

The spinning pinball is slowly falling to the ground as the victim hurtles toward Cara.

The rest is simple.

They enters her domain. She stops them. Their momentum flows through her into the pinball, which hits the ground spinning so fast that it zips down the pinball tunnel, moving so fast it's out of sight before any of them have time to process what's going on.

She keeps her sensory power active, in case it comes back or another human-sized pinball gets launched at them, and reaches for Haru with her other hand.

Haru takes her hand but he's also picking up the victim, who's sobbing and gibbering.

Her backlash precautions mean she's not very suited for helping with that, and she needs to keep watch with her power anyways. 

She'll step back and let him do this part, keeping a hand on his arm for guiding purposes. 

(She's only a tiny bit more backlashed than she was before this).

"We could pick up the pace a little? Jog him out of here?" Haru asks. The victim looks like he might be a high schooler and he's super freaking out. "My arms are full, you're on incoming projectile duty."

She nods. 

It's difficult to jog while keeping a hand on someone - she focuses instead on staying close enough to him to get a bit of at-range guiding. 

(It's also a bit difficult to jog while using her power, but after stumbling once or twice, she gets the hang of it.)

"Alien's looking our way," Haru tells her a few times, in between random chatter about the Art Deco design of the pinball machine and speculation about whether they're going to want to harvest the giant pinballs.

She either doesn't hear or doesn't acknowledge the warning, but when they get shot at, the pinball appears to bounce off an invisible wall as it gets close, perfectly tracing its original trajectories in reverse and destroying the ray gun.

When she doesn't acknowledge a warning Haru puts the victim down to chamber a round and look for the alien, but it shoots first; he flinches, but then returns fire and picks up the victim when the pinball stops. "Cara, when I tell you there's an alien looking at us confirm whether you're ready to deflect, please."

It's easy to sense him stopping, so she stops when he does. 

The gunshot makes her pay more attention to input from her ears. She hears the command and nods hesitantly, a stressed frown appearing across her face. 

"Are you able to do that?"

She sighs. "...I don't know. Jogging with my power active the whole time feels like it takes all my focus. Adding another thing on top of that with no practice..."

Okay, come on, think...

"If you slow to a walk next time as the signal for 'we are being watched', I can do the same and give you a thumbs up to confirm that I'm using my power and that you're inside my radius - I get instant feedback from my power when you slow down or stop, it doesn't take any extra focus." 

"You could ride piggyback, if that's easier?"

"-I think having a conversation while using my power is harder than jogging while doing it, but we can try that if it seems better to you."

"We'll try your way first."

"You're novices?" wails the victim.

"She is, I'm not, and we'll get you out safely, all right?"

Jogging.

She nods, mostly-successfully avoids reacting to the victim, and jogs close behind him, paying careful attention to everything around them.