"It's weird to me that there's - enough contact to know things like that, but not more than that."

"There was a particular supervillain who communicated with two of his other dimensional selves so we can infer some things based on what we know about them, and there's the pinhole wormhole which he created and we can communicate with Earth Aleph through. And I think a few other portals and pieces of tinkertech I think - but none that were stable enough to stick around past initial encounters."

"I assume you haven't made any progress on getting in touch with my universe, or with whoever can maybe do that."

"Not yet - you could try asking Lorica's dad about the Eidolon route?" 

"...I should do that but it's hard to remember things right now. I can't write them down."

"You can't?"

"I can't focus on text like this. I think I'd be able to have a text conversation at a lower level but right now no way."

"If I could find something that can do speech to text and back would that help?"

"I don't think so. It's about the - immediacy, I think."

Nod nod.

"If I had this problem now maybe I would ask an Undersiders employee to act as a secretary but I probably can't loan you one even if it would work."

"Lorica's dad is looking after me, I just feel bad about being, uh, full force at any small number of people without trying to spread it around as much as I can."

Well, Lucien is happy to be an additional person! Even more so if he can schedule this for only parts of his days and work on Undersider stuff the other parts.

"Hey, the bakery is going to be up and running later today - want me to get you something?" Lucien asks the next day.

"...I've managed to lose track of what day it was when I started awakening back home but I think either today or yesterday would be time for a birthday cake, if you wanna let, uh, Transit, collect one for me."

"Oh yeah that can happen. Welcome to adulthood - I am sorry it turns out to suck so much but hopefully it'll get better. And have cake."

"I'll take that in the spirit it was meant. I like chocolate."

Lucien can hand over an address for Transit to pick up the chocolate cake.

He can find time in his busy schedule for this.

Later that evening Lucien is being driven to a meeting forlornly staring at the trench he carved on the side of the road during the attack, rendering the sidewalk unusable, when he slowly puts together that in fact everything that is wrong with this city is his fault. He toppled buildings and carved the land and killed all the best capes and it's all on him. He doesn't know what he's been doing, pretending at reform.

"Can you stop the car?" Lucien asks his Undersider provided chauffer. 

The driver pulls over, "Sir?"

"I actually need to go to the PRT headquarters I've made a terrible mistake and need to turn myself in."

"Sir????"

"I know it's so late to realize but I understand now." It's really ridiculous that Lucien didn't realize this before! "Just, please -"

Capes have very strong opinions and there emotions can change on a dime in intense circumstances. This makes it difficult to provide any useful advice to them as to how to notice that something is awry in their thinking - for everything a sane person might flag there's a dozen capes who think it ten times a day. But! Even capes, however volatile, don't miss extremely obvious conclusions they could have made months ago! Well, that's not strictly true, a few capes will not notice for months that they can simply not make a terrible decision - but the same advice works in either case. And so, if you happen to be one of the few Wards to have actually memorized the important parts of the PRT handbook you were supposed to memorize - than when you realize that something is blindingly obvious and you missed it for months with no possible excuse, your first response will be -

"-Master/Stranger." Rules say to check as soon as possible, specific wording: "Do I seem mentally disturbed in an unexpected way?"

"Yes, sir." Which doesn't actually change Lucien's next step but is supposed to make him more confident in it.

Contact operational command - Tattletale was out of commission last he was aware, handbook instructions are to go up if necessary, whether or not it's intimidating.

"Call Skitter." 

And then, until communication is established or he can count to 50, or fail at counting to ten, he is supposed to look around for immediate threats and respond non-aggressively, without moving fast or using powers or tools.

She picks up when he's at 8.

"Tunnel Teen, what's going on?" He really needs to pick a new name.

Next: "Master/Stranger alert." 

"Details?"

She can make this a conference call and add Tattletale, who has had the chance to mostly recover from her migraine by now.

That's not in the handbook, the next response is supposed ask about his immediate physical safety, which means: "Confirm your response isn't according to protocol?"