Now there are signs ringing the whole area saying in Portuguese 'reconstruction under way, please stay clear'.

And the cape starts flying away. "I'm AK, by the way," introduces the cape.

"Epic. What's your power?"

"Arm superspeed and superstrength, can throw things really fast and hard. Yours?"

"Making stuff."

"...and the wings? And how'd you make the radiation... and the rest of the city... go away?"

"Made the wings, made the whole area into air."

"...so you can transform things, too?"

"Only into air, as far as I can tell, and I have to think about it as making room for a thing I'm making?"

"Huh. What kinds of things can you make?"

"Everything I've tried so far."

"And... you triggered yesterday? What about your parents?"

"I tried making dead people alive again, doesn't work."

"—oh. I'm sorry, kid."

"I can make them but they're not - they breathe, even, but it's like they're in a coma, I'm hoping maybe there're healers somewhere who can wake them up. And then we'd have resurrection. That'd be good."

He nods. "Maybe. We have some healers. Where are you from? How do you even speak Portuguese?"

"We used to live near here, we left when -"

"You were in two Behemoth attacks? Jesus, kid."

"I didn't really think about how most people aren't. Yeah."

"You're—holding up pretty well."

"I have powers. I like having powers. I can put the whole city back. I was going to do that."

"...okay, I guess. Still might wanna talk to people."

"I don't wanna talk to people very much but I don't want to scare them either."

"They'll probably want to ask you to do it a certain way, you shouldn't just make a city appear out of nowhere."

"I guess."