"Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you--a thought occurs to me but it seems like it could be reasonably interpreted as threatening."

"Well it's disclaimed now," he says, grinning.

"To Edie, everyone has a unique mental signature. If she meets the same person in and out of costume, she'll recognize them if she noticed them particularly before."

"Oh. That's actually reassuring, I'm way more comfortable with my decision now. Let's go?"

"Okay!"

"So, building tour first or city tour first?" he asks, leading the way out.

"Let's go with building."

"Okay!" Outside. "So this corridor has the rooms, most of us don't actually live here but our patrol times are often all over the place so it's good to have a place to crash. And we sometimes need to keep stuff here that we can't keep at home if like a friend visits or something."

"That makes sense."

"Upstairs there's some labs—I dunno if I can take you to them, probably not all of them—and the gym, there I can probably take you." To the elevator!

"Ooh, I wonder how your gym will differ from ours. Gyms designed to deal with people with enhanced physical abilities are interesting."

"It's mostly just really big and has lots of stuff? Stuff gets added when new people join the team if they need anything special. There's—well I'll show you. What are yours like?"

"Wind tunnel, reinforced targets--like really reinforced--a treadmill that breaks the sound barrier--some stuff with flying targets..."

"Treadmill that breaks the sound barrier, that sounds cool, we have a speedster but he works by going all super fast so the world looks slow and also he gets super light, he can just run around normally."

"...Huh. That seems like an odd way for a speedster to work."

"We don't really have power duplicates," he says, and now they're in the elevator. "So speedsters all work in different ways."

"--What, none at all?"

"Not, like, the whole package. Lots of people have, like, flight, but Legend's the only one who can fly and become light and shoot all those lasers."

"So flight is usually an and but speed tends to come on its own?"

"More or less. Speed is an and when it's straightforward, just being faster, but some people have speed as part of superstrength, and some people are like Velocity who only goes fast by interacting less with the world and that has some neat things to it."

"Huh. That's interesting."

"Yeah." Elevator arrives. "Come on, lemme show you the gym."

"Sure."

Gym! It is overall not as technologically fancy as Edie and Emily might be used to—it's got a fairly open area for sparring, several twenty-first century weight lifting machines (except these go to rather extreme values), and he can show them some of the fancier stuff like holograms or hidden dummies or traps.