"That power provides a path to any stated goal, and helps execute it. If the goal is knowing the answer to a specific question, it fills in the answer. There are blind spots, but none of them were relevant."

"No. I won't necessarily be able to pick up the specific one in the future; my own ability works in general results."

"Why did you ever drop that one?"

"Specific abilities, even important ones, matter less when they're replaceable." He doesn't shrug; he has unrestrained ability to speak, not move.

"...Even when they're that good?"

"The blind spots were more inconvenient than you might think. One of them was me."

"Oh." Promise sighs. "Well. Now I have this entire court to lock down so word doesn't get out that there are particularly useful vassals available for the taking if you gate to the right mortal world, and then I have some Fallen to absorb, and... hmmm... Anything else I would want to know?"

"Not that's relevant to this situation, with the exception of why I came through." In her position, Eidolon would have used orders by now on that question.

"Right then, there goes my hope that this could be conducted mostly in good faith. Answer all of my questions completely and honestly. You may warn me if this is about to cause you to disclose personal information of no legitimate interest to me. Who else knows my name?"

"Contessa. Number Man. The Doctor. Alexandria. Legend."

"And here I thought Alexandria and I had a cordial relationship. What are the predicable failure modes of sending you to find some amnesiac power and removing it from them?"

"Assuming I can find a power that would work on Alexandria, they might still manage to get away. Some of these are people who can compete with me directly."

"Do you know all their names?"

"No. Only Alexandria's and Legend's. As far as I know no one knows the real identity of the others."

"Why did you tell them my name? Alexandria sort of makes sense, now that I think of it, but I never met those other people."

"Is my entire personality one of her blind spots?"

"No."

"Why did she say my name?"

"You healed Alexandria. And killed Cherish by doing the same thing in reverse. That means you could, in fact, kill any of us by looking at us. It's ordinary paranoia."

"Does Contessa's power think it is safer to have a Master with several hundred vassal supervillains unable to kill her directly but finding it a very motivating proposition to get creative with indirection, than to be among the literally billions of people I could probably kill if I felt like it but would never dream of harming under any normal circumstance? Did that seem safer? She thought I was so dangerous that she'd rather have your little cabal all join an elite coterie with the rapists and torturers who give me nightmares, because that seems safer?"