"Doesn't even need to be that far away, it's just, there are so many places a light-year away and Clairvoyant would need to know where to look, he can't just look at a particular person without actually searching and he's fast but not that fast."

"If they have told you all their capabilities."

"Yeah. I don't—expect that one to be something they'd hide? But yeah, I'm not good at this whole cloak-and-dagger thing." Pause. "Hero's definitely not involved."

"I could go get him."

"Please do."

Scale model of Hero's surroundings. Pop. 

"Hi need you for a minute do you mind?"

"—okay."

Pop back. 

He takes off his helmet. "Uh, hi. What's—going on? Legend? Weren't you helping with relief—?"

"Eidolon made Behemoth and this monster."

"What—"

"Scion thought about it. While I was checking what's up with him. Just sort of in passing -" he bounces it -

"What the f—udge."

James looks at Maitimo as if asking for confirmation or something.

Yeah, this kid definitely had nothing to do with it. He nods slightly. "We're a little concerned that Cauldron might've known about this."

James lets out a relieved breath.

"Cauldron? Why would—no, no, I helped build that thing, they wouldn't—not something like that."

"It does seem like Endbringer fights are mostly detrimental to their organizational goals. But - they're the ones who gave Eidolon powers, right -"

"Sure, but we never know in advance what powers we're gonna get, not even Contessa—"

"Wait, what?"

"—uh. I kinda have something to tell you."

This much was in Cauldron's documentation. Not that he'd look surprised anyway. 

"Contessa can't actually see the vials. When we said she was just a precog who could tell what powers people would get, that was a lie. The—Case 53s, the ones with the physical changes and memory loss, they're experiments—"

"They're us?"

"...yeah, yeah they are. They're—they're all people who were dying, who were gonna die if we didn't—we offer them a second chance, just like we were offered one, just like I got off that goddamned wheelchair and those fucking tubes and then we can live again—but it's the same choice."