"Can you make me something?"

"Yeah for sure, what do you want?"

"I don't know, something rare? Hard to find or to make?"

...super pretty piece of Elven jewelry. "Like that?"

"—wow. I've never seen anything like it!" she says, accepting it and beaming. Feels so good to get approval like that, doesn't it?

Yes!!!! Making stuff is the best power he is a demon and he is so good at demoning.

He is! And—

Legend floats in. "Thank you, Pav, I believe that will be all."

Bounce bounce.

She smiles. "It was nice meeting you, Epic!" she says, and leaves the room, bringing the piece of jewelry with her.

"Are you feeling alright?" he asks Epic.

"Yes!! ...what's her power?"

"She does fast-acting Pavlovian conditioning, making certain thoughts and actions feel good and others feel bad."

"I already thought making stuff feels good! I don't know if that was her or just that making people things is good."

"It wears off fairly quickly after she leaves, so we'll see in a bit. Maybe I'm just being a little bit paranoid. Her power is..." He shakes his head.

"Mind control is super scary."

"Yes, and she used to be a villain before we caught her. She'd just—convince people to give her things."

"...I don't mind giving her things but that is kinda scary."

"Yes. Nowadays she's in one of our underground teams, dealing with the less glamorous capes. Masters and strangers in general prefer that."

"Why'd she decide to stop being a villain?"

"It was that or go to prison, after we managed to pin her down. She did not even bother going by a cape name, then."

"...I know humans are different but ugh."

"Which part of that is different?"

"Oh, you can't put Elves in prison because we die."

"That's terrible. Why do you?"

"I don't know. Elves are - stronger and faster and better senses than humans, and stuff, but kind of weirdly fragile some ways. We also die of grief and we can't literally die of things not being sufficiently pretty but we get really miserable from it."

Hug.