"Yes, but I cannot subject another to something I wouldn't be willing to try, myself."

"Okay, so you're willing to try it, so let's find some other people who are also willing to try it."

He looks at Alexandria.

"...it might be a good time to tell you something, Epic."

"...okay?"

"Door."

And behind her, a tridimensional "portal" appears, showing a corridor floating in thin air. She flies into it and steps onto the corridor.

Legend hesitates, but follows her.

...he will follow too.

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."