"We have costumes with masks but we were caught in civilian garb," Ava-who-still-hasn't-mentioned-her-original-name says.

"We have Junebug accessories but they don't even come with masks. I've gone on international television only slightly more dressed up than this."

"Not literally every cape at home does the secret identity, but almost all do. And it's sort of an etiquette thing that you don't even unmask capes you've just beaten in a fight." She looks at Flicker again. "So if you don't do secret identities what are your names?"

"We do the code name thing. I'm Alli, or Verge, and my sister's Bella, or Flicker."

"I'm Emily, or Magnetrix, and my sister's Edie, or Psyche."

"I'm Annabelle, or Helen, or Lumiere. My girlfriend is Ava, or Marie, or Mistral."

"...Why do you have two civilian names apiece?" She starts fiddling with some of the hardware affixing the helmet around her neck.

"Reincarnation. This is my third life, actually, I suppose you could call me Beatrice if you really wanted to."

"Cape names are fine. I'm Lorica." She pulls her helmet off. "Seems like it'd be confusing if I went by my civilian one."

"Extra Bella!"

"Weird!"

"Ooh, alts, those happen sometimes."

"This is a known thing? What does it mean?"

"Well, I don't have a sister, so it's not particularly comprehensive. And you don't strike me as a tinker. Not enough gadgets on you."

"My Bella's a teleporter. You don't have a me? That must be so sad for you."

"No offense, but it never occurred to me that I needed one. My dad's a teleporter, I wonder if that's a coincidence."

"Alts are when one person happens in more than one universe. Edie and I have some, one time Milliways decided to have an Edie And Emily Convention the way it's currently holding a Superhero Convention."

"Do you come in singlet the way I apparently do?"

"Not as far as we've met. And most of our alts had the same powers as us, too."

"Well, gemini doesn't do the 'tinkering' thing, so I couldn't have had hers. Apparently she could have had mine."

"I should have, actually. When powers run in families - and they often do - subsequent triggers are often in the same vein as previous examples in the family. I'm not even a transport-focused tinker; I do what I'm currently badly summarizing as 'contingent robotics'. And my thinker power is even less obviously relevant."

"Your what? ...Triggers?"

"Oh, I'm also flat immune to mind-affecting powers all the way up to the Simurgh. It's nice, but it has nothing to do with teleporting and that's all Dad does. Triggers are traumatic events that lead to getting powers."

"Getting your S-Factor activated can be traumatic but it's not an inherent feature," Marie comments.

"Emily and I have had ours since before we were born."