"It's really slow. Centuries to design anything. But - if someone triggered with a tinker power for it -"

"Oh yikes—although that sounds pretty hard to imagine, parahuman powers aren't very magical like that and tinkers are always more technological?—but can't rule it out, I suppose—"

"If I could be sure that it wouldn't get past the people I gave the artifacts to, and I could just take the artifact away from one of them if they triggered with anything that might let them do it, then it'd be safe enough, probably. But in general we try to be really careful about it."

He nods. "That makes sense."

Legend's comm beeps and he excuses himself to go answer it.

...depending how far he goes, he hasn't actually mentioned that Elves have excellent hearing.

It is definitely still within Epic's hearing. The conversation doesn't sound sensitive, though, so it must be habit? It is about a meeting about to start and people waiting for him. He confirms he will be there and bring Hero and returns.

"Hero and I should go to a meeting. Do you want us to take you to the Wards building to meet the other parahumans?"

"Sure!"

"Here—" he says as soon as Hero's done eating and tries sending Epic a mental image of a room.

Pop.

They are in an empty meeting room. "I didn't want to bring us to the lobby or anywhere with lots of people, it's no good to startle them."

He opens the door and leads the way out.

He folds up his wings (they are still fairly visible) and follows.

He is walking with Legend, no one will question this.

After a few turns and going up an elevator, they reach a room with a few sofas and a computer. Standing in the middle of it, a girl with mouse ears attached to her head and not wearing a mask is playing with a wooden sword. She looks at them and points the sword at them. "Halt, villains!"

He smiles a little bit. "Hi. I'm Epic."

"I'm Mouse Protector! Prepare to fight!" She runs towards Epic yelling "Yaaaaaa!" but stops when Legend says, "Mouse, can you get your teammates?"

"Sure," she says, and off she goes to fetch her teammates.

"Sorry about her," Legend says.

"That's okay. I'm not very good at conventional fighting, should I be?"

"Probably not. Her power is enhanced agility and stamina, plus she can tag people with a touch and teleport to them on a whim."

"Cool."

The first people to show up are a boy and a girl, teenagers, about fifteen and seventeen respectively. The girl is wearing jeans and a T-shirt and isn't looking at anyone. She has a knife in her hand, and is playing with it. The boy is dressed similarly, and looks somewhat subdued.

And as the kids appear, Hero straightens up and becomes more serious. "These are Hannah, cape name Miss Militia, and Nathan, cape name Chevalier," he introduces them.

"Hi. I'm Epic. My real name's Fëanáro."

    "Nice to meet you, Fëanáro," says Nathan.

        "Hi," says Hannah.

Other people start arriving: Champion (Howard, 17), Clover (Reed, 17), Panther (Malcolm, 16), Jaunter (Ian, 16), Leaf (Olivia, 15), Harlequin (Mary, 14), Sunlight (Jennifer, 16), and the girl with the sword returns and introduces herself as Mouse Protector, again, name Barbra.

And the last one is someone Fëanáro might recognize. At least, she recognizes him.

That is the person he asked where a hospital was. "Hi!"

"Hi. I thought I dreamt you."

"Oh, you've met?"

"In New York. I was healing people. What's your name?"