"—no fucking way," he says, sitting back down.

"Language!" Miss Militia admonishes him weakly, now that she's not too stunned.

"Do it again! You'll never guess now."

She giggles. "The number 198,002,471."

"Wow. Wow. She's the real deal. Can you say stuff in my head?"

"Please don't do it to me," says Helpful Explainer in a small voice.

"Read your mind or say stuff in your head?"

Yeah, I can totally say stuff in your head, she says privately to Magnet Master. 

"Both," she says.

"This is so cool—do you have any idea you just turned everything upside down—maybe the people saying the Simurgh—"

"Let's not try to get ahead of ourselves," Miss Militia interrupts him. "The Simurgh's never shown—anything to that level."

"But the song, maybe it's—"

"It's not useful to speculate," she interrupts him again.

"I won't," she says to Helpful Explainer, and to the others: "Who or what is the Simurgh?"

"Giant monster with sort-of psychic powers but no telepathy as far as anyone knows, especially 'cause everyone thought it was impossible," Magnet Master explains.

"Huh. What kind of psychic powers, then?"

"She emits a psychic song," Miss Militia starts explaining, "that's felt, not heard, and people exposed to it for too long become—ticking time-bombs, acting normal for days and then suddenly going to work and murdering everyone and returning home as if nothing was wrong." Helpful Explainer looks down at her feet and swallows. "She has fine and large-scale telekinesis and flight, and the most advanced forms of pre—and post-cognition recorded so far."

"Uh. What."

"She turns people into Rube Goldberg machines, basically," Magnet Master says. "—uh, do you have a Rube Goldberg where you're from—?"

"Yeah, just--that sounds, uh. Really. Really. Bad."

"Oh yeah she's absolutely terrifying I hope I never get anywhere near her," he agrees immediately.

"She does rather sound like a problem in need of solving."

They all nod.

"She has two siblings, too," Magnet Master adds. "Or, well, two other indestructible giant monsters that periodically attack places. But they're not psychic."

"That sounds...better than them also being psychic..."

"One of them is a speedster and has macrohydrokinesis, the other's a dynakinetic," he supplies helpfully.

"Eugh."

"Succinctly put."

"Well. I guess we'll see if they're indestructible mentally as well as physically."

"That's the spirit!"

"Our parents fought a dynakinetic once, but he wasn't indestructible."

"Your parents are parahumans, too?"

"--It's genetic. Recessive, mind, there are lots of kids with powers who have baseline parents, but yeah."

"Your kind...feels different."