"Ours mostly don't, not like conventional skills, though obviously if your power is not actually related to hand to hand combat skill or whatever it can be useful to pick that up."

"Huh. Yeah, I'm - a lot more powerful and precise than I was a year ago, and the teleportation's actually a new ability. Loki also thinks most humans could learn some kind of power, but most just don't know how or bother without having a talent getting them started."

"Ooh, learn it how?"

"Uh - Loki?"

"There's some - stuff that's basically metaphorical physics to learn, and then a lot of meditation and stubbornness is the traditional way. It's rare for humans to manage, but I know someone who got technology manipulation that way."

"What does the meditation do?"

"Helps you focus your will, and helps you get your thoughts out of your own way."

"...and doing stuff with the power doesn't involve thinking about it? Sounds dangerous."

"It does involve thinking, but it's dangerous if you get distracted because you suddenly have a song stuck in your head or something."

"Fair enough. But people mostly don't do this? It takes too long or something?"

"It's hard, apparently frustrating, highly individualized, and takes a while to even get small effects, though once you have any effects it's relatively easy to escalate."

"How long is a while?"

"I have a talent and got magic that wasn't just sensing my surroundings within a few months. The technomancer I know got a decent amount of power in ten years, but that's measuring from when she decided to teach herself at six years old."

"Hmm. Did she decide to be a 'technomancer' or did that just fall out naturally from the process?"

"Didn't ask, sorry. I think it was - partially both, though. She liked technology, and most people tend to find one area - usually one they're interested in anyways - easier than others."

"I wonder if I'd find technomancy redundant or not."

"Hard to say."

"Are we, like, sleeping here? What time zone are you guys on? My onboard bot thinks it's ten thirty where I came from."

"Like, New York City time - it's super late for us, it was night when we started all this and I haven't slept, so yeah possibly we should sleep before doing anything... Though maybe not here? Dunno."

"My bot'll keep watch but it'd make sense if you didn't wanna trust that."

"I can drop into acceleration instead of sleeping, too," Jet says, evenly. "Which between us should be enough, and then I'll be able to react if Quicksilver or someone catches up with us."

"Accelerating substitutes for sleep or just lets you do it really fast?"

"Substitutes, kind of. Don't sleep while accelerated, and it does close enough to resetting me."

"Keen. Well. Dibs on that nook over there." She goes and lies down, apparently planning to sleep in her suit; the stolen doombot stands sentinel.

And she drops into acceleration to scout for a bit.

She's back within two minutes, to update the team on nearby villages and possible approaches for the Avengers or Doom or anyone.

She then zips up a tree to settle in.