There's a rush of changing pressure and dizziness, and then he's in the corridor.

"Welcome to Cauldron," Alexandria says, and starts leading the way.

"What's Cauldron?"

"An organization founded to contain the threat that parahumans as a whole pose, and their source."

"Their source?"

"We call them Entities. There are two, and one of them is Scion."

" - huh."

She continues leading them in silence.

And Legend follows.

...he conjures for people in the area. Very very small models, grain-of-sand sized in his hand. Just because this is making him a little nervous.

He gets himself, Legend, and Alexandria.

Okay.

He keeps following.

After a couple of turns they reach a door, which Alexandria opens.

—which was probably a portal somewhere else, too, there's that rush of pressure again and—

A woman in a suit is standing near the wall across the room, and there is a table where a woman in a lab coat, Eidolon—

—and Hero are seated. "Hi!" he greets Epic.

"Hi. What's going on?"

"We're gonna let you in on all the big secrets!"

    "Welcome, Epic," says the woman in the lab coat. "I am called Doctor Mother."

The woman in the suit doesn't introduce herself.

" - hi."

"There are several reasons why we decided to call you here, the most salient of which being the peal of which you speak. But to answer one question: powers do, in fact, work in adjacent dimensions. Most of them, in fact, come from adjacent dimensions."

"A specific one? Or just, like, all of them -"

"Well, probably not all of them, based on how you suggested the network functions, but at least an unthinkably large number of them."

"I think I need an example."

"Of?"

"How the magic works off other dimensions."

"Sometimes it is merely energy—Alexandria's muscles could not bend steel, so that force must be coming from somewhere. Sometimes it is matter, directly—I trust you have met Miss Militia. And in all cases, the actual source of the power is a shard of an Entity, located in another world and helping control it."

"...and why are the Entities giving people powers..."