"Of course. Are you all right?"

"...yes. I think I am." She smiles. "My world has just been turned upside down but... yes."

"Good."

"I should probably go arrange things so that Epic doesn't need to attend school anymore."

"That makes sense. You can write him if you need anything else from us."

"I will. I suppose I should thank you for—saving the world, if that's what you're going to do."

"You're very welcome."

"We do it a lot."

She laughs. "That's good to know."

He takes Maitimo home. He bounces back. "Thank you for getting me out of school."

"You're welcome," she says, half-smiling. "Thank you for—telling me everything."

Nod.

And he can go do whatever while she does whatever she needs to do to make sure he doesn't need to go to school again.

He goes to his room.

Legend's written him a letter asking him how he's doing.

He composes one to drop off in return once he can. It explains that they made him go to school but won't do that anymore, and that the military dictatorship has been made to stop torturing people he would kind of have appreciated knowing about that sooner.

He works on his artifact.

Doctor Ximenes successfully manages to arrange it so he does not need to go to school any longer.

He appreciates it. He puts in more time on the artifact. He visits Chicago to drop the reassuring letter off for Legend.

And there's his extremely gorgeous house! Gosh it is so pretty.

He drops off the letter for Legend and checks that no one's trying to disturb his body in Brazil and flops in his pretty pretty house. He will probably be home by the end of the week, he doesn't really need a break. But it is nice.

And now he's sitting up, and then standing up.

- no, that was not what he meant to do - can he talk -

Absolutely.

"I swear not to move or make things until I figure out what's going on," he whispers very quietly.

There are a couple of seconds of silence and then a laugh, as a young man with a goatee playing with a knife emerges from another room.

"What an interesting side power. I wonder how much information you need before that stops working."