"Out of the car. I tried the door and then I tried making something in the middle of the door and window and unmaking it but I was knocked out before I finished."

"And where'd you wake?" repeats the Vice-Director patiently.

"A room? It was small, and had a bed and stuff and the doors were locked and I need to know where I am relative to something to do the - making people - otherwise I might make it in the middle of a wall or something and be dying when I shifted to it - so I tried melting the door with lava and then I think I got knocked out again."

"Did you see who or what knocked you out?"

"I think it was the guy who picked me up from school?"

"Was it a power or did he do something to you?"

"Power. I think."

"And after you woke the second time...?"

"Made tiny scale models of my environment, getting wider in scope, until I could identify a clear area, made a body there, shifted to it."

"So as far as they know you just became a vegetable?"

"Yeah I think so."

"Did they try to talk to you?"

"Yeah, in the car. They said they were the heroes and the government I was working for was evil and they could prove it and stuff."

"And did you say anything?"

"I said that heroes didn't kidnap people."

"Can you tell us everything you remember about the conversation and any other conversations there?"

"I was unconscious the rest of the time."

"You attempted to flee as soon as you said that?"

"I attempted to flee as soon as they said they were kidnapping me just they were also saying things to me while I was trying to open the door and then trying to break it."

"I see. And they didn't attempt to communicate anything else to you through any other means?"

"They also shouted that I could look up the tapes of the government torturing people. I don't know why they didn't write me a letter, if I got a letter I would have checked the things they said to check."

"Perhaps they didn't think of it," suggests Doctor Lira.

    "We should check for bugs and other things they might have done to spy on us," says Blindfold. "We've instructed other people to not say anything sensitive near him while he was recovering but now that he has..."

Nod.

"—can you conjure for anything that got attached to your body since you left school, or something?" asks Lira.

"Yeah." Well, he has to do it off a timeframe not a milestone but it amounts to the same thing. He does that.