"Ah. That's definitely not the case now." The suits start exiting the room, and Legend starts floating after them, with Hero trailing. "By the way, Epic, have you eaten?"

"...no. Should I make us - lunch? Is it lunchtime?"

"Close to that, yes." Float float—" There is a cafeteria one floor down where the other Wards and heroes—at least the one who are here—will be eating, if you'd prefer that."

"Yeah, I guess I can meet more people!" He stretches out his wings to brush against the walls of the hallway. "Will you be there?"

"Yes, we try to make a point to all show up at least lunch to touch base and get to know each other in situations other than just strictly cape business. Speaking of which," and he removes his blue mask, revealing the upper half of his rather handsome face. The mask had some hard parts and was shaped in such a way that, compounded with the glowy eyes he no longer has, his face is actually unlike what one would naively expect. "It should go without saying that our secret identities are, well, secret. You'll see several unmasked capes there, today, so please be discreet."

Off goes Hero's helmet, too. "I'm Oliver. He's James," he introduces them both, hiking a thumb at Legend.

"I'll be very discreet," he says happily, bouncing along. 

"Some heroes still prefer to keep their identities secret even here, though, so it might get confusing, keeping track of everyone's cape and real names. You get used to it, eventually."

"Okay. The secret identities thing isn't really demon-safe, you know."

"Yes, but demons weren't a possibility before you showed up. I'm not sure there is a way to make them demon-safe."

"Probably not. I won't look, anyway, unless someone's really awful."

"It... might not be a good idea to look even then."

"Why not?"

"Part of the reason behind the secret identities is that it serves as a line capes do not cross. It's an unspoken rule."

"We could find out most villains' secret identities, if we wanted, but the same is true of them. If we cross that line and go after their personal lives, they do the same to us and to our loved ones, and it escalates. And when it comes to people who could, quite frankly, level buildings with a thought," and he inclines his head at Legend, "escalation is the last thing we want."

"Furthermore, we count even on villains to help with the... bigger threats. Threats like Behemoth."

"That's a - weird system. But okay."

"There are exceptions—but the exceptions are always the capes who do violate the unspoken rules, like Glaistig Uaine. Not that we expect her to even still have a secret identity anymore."

"Why are people villains? What is it they want that they can't get without - going around scaring people and stealing stuff?"

"Money, usually. Power, status, control."

"Can we offer them a better way to get that stuff? Especially money, I can pay people not to be villains if that'd work -"

"Some, but not all. Some get a thrill out of it, out of being more powerful or smarter than the government or having underlings or using their powers..."

"I mean, I get a thrill out of using my powers! And being more powerful than anyone else! I think everyone does, probably. Being powerful is really really nice. It doesn't mean you have to hurt people."

"I think it's a different kind of powerful, though. Here what I mean is having power over other people—is being able to tell them to do things and not be questioned."

"Oh. Yeah, I can't - think of an easy way to cheat so everyone gets what they want, there -"