"I suspect she'll assume."

"What do you think she'll do to us?" Thekla's voice is shaking.

"Might stop at killing us, if she's busy."

"Oh." Thekla seems to shrink in size at that.

"You're frightening her!" Bambi seems more comfortable defending others than speaking for herself.

She considers and discards 'why did they pick a coward for this.' She might have to rely on these people to escape.

"I'm sorry," she says, apparently fully sincerely. "I'm a bit nervous, myself."

"We all are. But you have to make sure you don't worry the younger members of this group."

"I'll be more careful."

"Good. That's good." 

She offers Emma a small smile, and Thekla a more encouraging one.

Thekla seems lost for words, but not in a grateful way.

Sasuke, feeling a moment of teenaged 'ugh, adults' sympathy, meets her eyes, then rolls his.

Thekla catches the look and grins, despite herself. 

"Anyone have ideas on power synergy?"

"Like, putting powers together? To make a different or stronger power?"

"How our powers interact. Can you manipulate technology on the other side of one of my portals, would be one example."

"Sounds like something worth experimenting with. I'm Thekla, by the way. Or Technopath, if you believe the papers."

"Carina. If they gave me a nickname I didn't notice."

"They're always bad, don't feel too left out."

"It's a rather strange habit."

"Naming people that already have perfectly good, working names? Agreed."

"Thekla is more aesthetic than Technopath, too."

"Much more. You can really feel how powerful I am in Technopath."

"It's uninspired, at a minimum."

"Never accuse modern journalism of being inspired. The whole system would crash."

"I'd make suggestions to improve it, except for how I utterly don't care."