"...I guess."

"You could meet the other team members, though, you haven't had time to do it yet I think and most of them were fighting Behemoth."

"Oh! Yeah, that sounds good."

"Some of them were lost in the fight, though, so they will be grieving, too."

He wraps himself in his wings. "I'm sorry."

"You don't have anything to be sorry for, and if the reports we've been receiving are correct, he's gone forever."

She offers a hug again, though.

Hug! "I didn't stop Behemoth. I could've triggered sooner and saved more people."

"It's not your fault when you trigger, and you can't blame yourself for all the things you could have prevented if something that didn't happen had, or if some piece of information you didn't have available had presented itself somehow. If you've made a mistake, and I'm not convinced you have, then the appropriate response is to understand it and why it happened and take measures to prevent it from happening again."

"Could've made something indestructible and used it to shield my family."

"I'm not sure there's anything indestructible enough for Behemoth, but maybe."

"Maybe not. I should've thought of it and tried."

She sighs, and wraps an arm around him.

Hug. And they walk back down the beach.

And eventually they're back at the headquarters. "So do you want to meet the other heroes?"

"Yeah!!!"

She leads him inside and upstairs (well, up-elevator) and shows him to the common area before she goes to call the other heroes. It's remarkably similar to the one in the Protectorate building in function if not in style, and has a similar unmanned computer station for use.

He pretties it up.

And soon enough a tired-looking teenager emerges from somewhere, looking like he might've just gotten out of bed. "Hello."

"Hi! I'm Epic."

"—cape name? Alright. I'm Batallion." He's not wearing a costume, or even regular clothes—these look like pyjamas.

"I'm supposed to meet people! Nice to meet you! Do you want any stuff that isn't sold in stores, I can make stuff but I'm supposed to not make stuff that businesses make so I don't break them."

He walks over to the computer but looks at Epic. "Like what?"

"Uh, anything? Little thumbnail computers, little shuttles that fly really fast..."

"Thumbnail computers?"

He makes one and demonstrates it!