"So we have the blueprints almost done," he says conversationally as he leads Epic through the hallways.

"Oh good!!"

"But we're somewhat worried..."

"Oh?"

"You haven't been handling your powers very responsibly."

"I fought the monsters."

"You didn't inform us of it, you made this decision on your own, and you weren't careful with ways other people could exploit your powers."

"There wasn't very much time, there were monsters attacking."

"There never is. This is the kind of rule it's always okay to break every single time you do it, but if it's broken too many times then the whole system stops functioning and everything becomes much worse."

...nod.

They reach an elevator. The guard standing by it salutes the Vice-Director, who waves back. "So do you understand why we're worried about you? You're extremely powerful, and that you're bright and well-intentioned is obvious, but that's not enough to do good."

"I really want to do good."

"I know. That's why you need our help." The elevator arrives and he steps into it. It starts going up. "Some of not knowing the best way to do good is because of your age, but maybe not all of it. We still don't know who you'll be when you grow up, but some people just don't know how to best deploy their abilities for good even when they're adults."

"I think I will be able to."

"I hope you will! But for now I think the best thing you can do is follow our lead. Of course we'll hear your opinions about things, they're very important, but sometimes it may look like we're not doing the right thing and it's because we know more than you do and the thing that looks right is not."

Uh huh. "Uh huh."

The elevator takes two more seconds to reach its intended destination, which turns out to be the top floor. The door opens to a spacious chamber with a glass ceiling, a few desks, fewer people, and a hologram of a city in the middle.

"Oooooh!"

São Paulo was a very large city. The one they're seeing is much more organized than the real one was, though. There's a man in a lab coat and a glittering mask that covers only his face looking at it and doing something to a touchpad. He looks up at them when he hears Epic and says, "Oh, you're the one who's gonna do the thing? Cool!"

    "Epic, this is Projection," introduces Vice-Director Silva. "He's a tinker who specialises in, well, projections. Projection, this is Epic."

"Hi!"

"Your power is cool," he pronounces. "Hi!"

"I think every tinker thinks their power is the coolest. The difference is I'm right." He does something to the touchpad and the holographic city rotates and zooms into a certain specific neighborhood. He starts doing things that add buildings to it, and resizing and rescaling them. "This is gonna become a set of blueprints for you but we were wondering if that was necessary or if you could make it off the hologram."

"I bet the hologram is - enough, that's what the power uses is enoughness and I'm starting to get a sense of what is enough -"

"We could test that—" He makes that hologram disappear then creates a hologram of an apple.

He makes the apple depicted. "How will you tell if it's not just a normal apple."

"Make a knife and cut it in half. Should be an orange inside."