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Haru sometimes gets coffee at Tim's, when he happens to feel like it on a random morning, or when he needs to be up long enough to finish out a guiding session with June. This morning it's the first thing.
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traceless
"I'm up for chasing it if you are but you're pretty backlashed and need to ration harder till we get a break."
come-hold-my-hand
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."
traceless
"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.
come-hold-my-hand
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.
traceless
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.