"Anyway, what everyone's else story. I understand that Leo's more locally interesting than Xan's, but I don't have a frame of reference."

"Xan hails from a nice middle-class family in California that loved him very much but has since updated in favor of him being a mutant menace, good riddance to them. Sky hails from a lower-class family in Kentucky that did not have particularly fond feelings for them even before they manifested. Hakim... I don't actually know anything about Hakim's family."

"And it's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future," Hakim says. "Incomunicado."

"Incomunicado," Leo accepts. "Ariel was raised by a notorious supervillainess and killed her in a duel, then absorbed her powers, and was adopted by Sally's parents, who are extremely rich and love their children very much, both of which traits they share with my parents, though unlike my parents they are not also notorious supervillains."

"Congratulations on being a menace."

"For some reason I had assumed that you father wasn't in the picture," he tells Leo. "Do your parents have super-powers?" He asks, addressing Sally for the first time.

"No, not at all," she says. "They're just rich."

"No, he's certainly a part of my life. He likes model trains. And robbing banks."

Herod purses his lips.

Gav pats Herod on the back.

"That sounds odd. I mean, I am not sure what trains are, but it sounds like an odd hobbie."

"They're a kind of vehicle that follows a set track. He makes elaborate environments for them and then blows them up. He is indeed a very odd man."

"Ooh, if explosions are involved, that makes way more sense."

“Yeah. They’re not usually, but Dad likes to keep people on their toes.”

"Clearly, a wise man."

"Wise enough to have survived thirty years as an active supervillain. That's the kind of wisdom some people I know could use."

Herod glances at Xan upon hearing that statement, then back at Leo. "Is he retired?" Pause. Blink. "I think they mentioned something or other about neutrality but people really don't use your connection to track him down?"