"Besides, just giving everyone money wouldn't work—you'd do more good giving poorer people money rather than villains, and if you give everyone money all that does is make money worth less."

"I can give everybody stuff. Fancy future stuff. But that still doesn't solve people wanting to boss other people around."

"Or hurt them, or control territory, or merely use their powers for fun without caring who they hurt."

"Well, that last one we could make a rule that the Moon's only for people who are durable or easy to resurrect. Or something. And there's enough territory for everyone. Hurting people, not as much, though."

"I'm not sure there's such thing as 'enough.' This is the kind of person whose next move once they get the territory they want is to covet their neighbor's."

"Stuff's complicated," Hero summarizes.

"Yeah. Ugh." Food!

Food!

The cafeteria has a couple dozen people, most of them Wards, most of them unmasked. They're divided in a few groups of typically four to six people each, although Nathan (Chevalier) and Hannah (Miss Militia) are off by themselves and Sadde's all alone with a book.

"I'd definitely not suggest you mention your idea to Sadde right now, when she's alone and unlikely to be approached by anyone," he tells Fëanáro in an undertone.

Bounce bounce bounce - hey, Sadde, I told the PRT that if they tried to make you go home and you didn't want to I'd teleport us some place that has less stupid laws.

She looks up from her book, startled, and looks around, looking for Fëanáro. - what? Laws...?

Here is Fëanáro! The wingspan makes him pretty noticeable! I don't know if there are places with better laws, if not we can just go to the Moon.

Do you mean, like—my father—you can make them not take me to him...?

Yep. I got new parents because my birth ones weren't working out, you should do that.

They wouldn't believe me about that when I told them, they said I had to be with him, and he's a butt, and I'll become a villain if they make me live with him.

Well, you shouldn't become a villain, but anyway they listen to me because they can't stop me.

That's so cool. And you'd—do that for me?

I want to fix everything for everyone.

Well—I do, too, but—you have to choose a first thing to fix, I guess and—thank you.

Of course. I also tried convincing Legend to let me tutor you instead of you going to school but I don't know if I won that one.

Oooh that'd be so cool then you could teach me all the things the adults think I'm too dumb to understand and if I were too dumb to understand then I'd just know it instead of just assuming.

I don't think you're too dumb to understand, and if it's not working I'll try better ways of explaining. 

Well I'm eight there are things I probably won't be able to understand no matter how much you explain them.

Maybe. Or they might take so long to explain you're not eight by the time they make sense. 

Which is more or less the same thing.