Smooth, thinks the member of the team with super-hearing. Who of course heard all of that.

"Where's Yvette?" he wonders, innocently. "I thought you were getting her."

M'kel, who is still reading Rain's mind, is glad she doesn't automatically display her emotions on her face yet. 

Rain can hear her mentally giggling, though. 

"Yeah no she's, uh, getting some stuff. From a place," Nate attempts to explain.

"She'll be here in a minute, I just thought I'd come and let you guys know what was taking so long." 

"Probably getting magic supplies from home," says Rain, sagely. "Shouldn't take long, the house is also magic, but thanks for letting us know."

He says this with an impressively straight face. The hint of a smile is perfectly natural, in these circumstances, where he's about to play Hide and Seek. But on the inside: yep, he's definitely also giggling. Just hiding it very well. Nate wouldn't appreciate being laughed at, even if this is pretty funny. They're just so charmingly awkward. Maybe if they keep it up he'll try and help fix it, but he's comfortably sure that Nate and Yvette will get on like a house on fire once they get past their mutual awkward. They have a similar sort of style. So it's fine to take advantage of the brief time of awkward and giggle. Quietly.

But all right, he had his fun, now to quietly disarm the remaining awkward:

"So no one else wants to seek first, right?" he confirms, bouncing because he wants to and because it'll change the context of his smile.

"You are welcome to be the first," Kaldur confirms, returning the smile with no idea of its true meaning.

"Although we should first decide how high the count needs to be." 

"Five hundred!" Robin pipes up immediately. 

"Cool it, Boy Wonder." Nate looks like he's stifling giggles, though, which is an improvement on hiding mild discomfort. 

"That is way too long. Fifty?"

"One hundred's probably enough for everybody. It's a big place, even you need some time to figure out the lay of the land."

This isn't the real reason he's suggesting it. Fifty's a bit short, but they could probably all make it work. They're all pretty decisive people. A hundred is just long enough that everyone will have time to figure out where they'll go, and then get nice and bored. This is by design. He'd like them to be bored, it will make them easier to find as they awkwardly shuffle in their hiding places.

He's already figuring out everyone's tactics. Kaldur is definitely going to go somewhere strange in the underwater sections of the base; Rain's pretty sure he'll have ideas about where to hide that none of the people more familiar with the surface will think of. Nate is going to stay mobile. Robin's going straight into the vent system where Rain absolutely cannot follow him. Yvette's going to do something clever with magic. He's going to need to be very deliberate about the order in which he finds people, he thinks. Some of their power and skill sets counter each other more readily than others.

... Mysteriously, he has no thoughts towards M'kel's possible tactics. Just a calm, playful certainty that he's up to the task.

And here is Yvette, with a small satchel slung over her shoulder.

"Hi," she says, a little shyly.

How mysterious. (He's adorable. She sends this.)  

"Hi! I'm M'kel. You must be Rain's sister." 

"I am! I'm Yvette, nice to meet you."

"Likewise!" Meeting new people is great. Well, meeting new people who are genuinely happy to meet her is great. 

Speaking of which... "Um, I'm a telepath? I won't read your mind without permission; Rain's letting me read his." And being inexplicably adorable about it!

"Oh good! I'm glad he has someone to telepath at, he was getting kind of lonely," she says, sincerely.

You see why I like her, thinks Rain, a little smugly. About that, and about being adorable. (Yes. Yes he is.)

"Thank you for not reading my mind without my permission! Welcome to Earth, um. Welcome to the team that I am not a part of? I am probably not qualified for that one..."

Nate snorts.

He seems to be pretty much comfortable around Yvette again, for now. He's leaning casually against a wall, giving absolutely no indication that he's ready to start running at a moment's notice whenever Rain begins the count. 

"Thanks!" Wow M'kel is smiling a lot today. She thinks she's smiled more in the last hour than she has in the entire rest of her life, and only mostly because Martians don't tend to express emotion through facial expressions. 

Yeah, she seems nice. 

"I feel very welcomed." And now they can start playing, right? She's never played this game before, and it sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Rain beams.

"So, are we ready to play? There are no objections to counting to a hundred?"

"I mean, if it doesn't work we can change the count next round," Robin says.

"—hey, that's a point, who counts next? Is it the first person to be caught or the last one?" 

Kaldur frowns, trying to think back to when he last played this game.

"...the last," he decides. "And now, I think, we are ready." He nods at Rain. 

Obligingly, Rain closes his eyes.

"One, two, three..."

Nate is gone before he's finished counting to two.

Robin takes off in the opposite direction.

A little way down the corridor, he pops the cover off an air vent and disappears inside, pulling it back in place after him. 

Yvette turns and dashes down a hall, smiling. She knows precisely where she's going, but she wants to get in just a bit of setup first.

M'kel pulls up the hood of her blue cloak, and the colours of the wall behind her ripple across it. In a matter of moments, she is almost perfectly camouflaged. 

The fact that she can fly means even Rain's hearing won't be able to pick up her footsteps. Hovering telekinetically a few inches above the floor, she glides out of the room.