"She likes you, too! She'll be at her school at the time, though, and her secret identity shouldn't be compromised."

"Yeah okay."

"I should get back to my duties. You can go back to your room, if you like, or spend time with your friends."

"I think I might go to bed early."

"Then sleep well," she says, smiling.

He nods. He goes to bed. He curls up and closes his eyes and swaps out for himself and follows her invisibly.

She goes up to her office and starts typing a report about what happened today on her computer.

He reads over her shoulder from the corner of her office.

She's very verbose but very complete in her descriptions. She expresses a belief that, if there's some power controlling or following or bugging Epic, it's not something that changes his demeanor so it's probably not taking control of him. It's her professional opinion that everything's fine and he's a very resourceful young man.

Oh good.

He goes after the first tortured person.

Currently asleep in a cell. Bleeding from various places but probably not in immediate risk of death.

Replacing him with a braindead body would probably be a giveaway. He just steals him, heals him, drops him off in the room suggested.

He wakes up with a start when he's healed. "What—?"

"Uh you got rescued. I'm going to go get the rest of them and then if no one's stopped by to explain I will."

As he's finishing this sentence, though, someone appears, so presumably that's going to be taken care of.

Next one.

Being actively waterboarded.

...that one he'll swap out with a basement-dweller. So as not to alert them before he gets the rest. Swap-heal-flee.

They don't immediately notice.

Next one's also in a cell, and looks in—worse shape.

Heal grab.

After the fourth disappearance people become aware that something is going on.

He's invisible, they'll have a hard time stopping him.

Some people are going to check on you in your room, Contessa osanwës him.

- fine. He teleports back to his room, swaps with the basement-dweller.

There is an urgent knock.