"I'm not really used to workplaces so... Crowded. If I work with the Protectorate, I want to live on one of my mountains."

Pause. "On one of your yous?"

Blink. The paper from earlier is fetched, squeezed between two pebbles, and she draws. "This is a mountain. My name is also mountain, because that's what kind of Fate I am. It wasn't always my name, I used to be called Jeda."

"I understand. Do I call you mountain?"

"Yes, please. And about 'my mountains,' I will listen to advice on where they ought to go, but there will be at least one. I'll go back to that island I only saved half of, if nothing else."

"Can you use a mountain that exists—past?" She doesn't know how to say 'already.'

"I would tunnel into it, but yes, that will work."

"Then this is a problem that can be solved." She leads mountain into the building, and various uniformed people ask her various questions and she types in passwords on keypads by doors to get in.

She understands nonzero amounts of English by now, but doesn't really try to put this knowledge to use. She idly shapes a hunk of iron in one rock-armored palm into various things, instead. Pure metal is tricky, and so is detail work, it's a good focus exercise.

"I could make a square. Though there is the problem of where to put it."

"About fifty to a hundred of this temple would fit. But it would be a mountain square, possibly with forest or plains in a couple of slots. And mismatched terrain types create... Problems. I'm not sure at all what it would do here."

She nods at the names. "I can avoid it. I probably should learn more about this... Sphere, but I'm going to need to sleep for a couple days soon, to get back to full power."

"Alexandria probably can explain better than any of us, she's more likely to remember details of physics that you'd find relevant," Legend says.

"And you are all powerful. That means busy. I was imagining learning to read more and hovering in a library."

"If you need book detail, then yes that might be better," Alexandria says. "But now I am the only person who can speak a little of your language. We are looking for someone that can help, but that might take time."

"I want book detail eventually... I am lost. Not forever, probably, but I am lost. Now, nothing is certain, like an earthquake of my life. Something to do would help."

Alexandria is slightly frustrated about being unable to get the kind of detail and nuance she would like in language, but she'll cope. "I learn very fast, most others don't, and I don't have time to translate books. You may stay here and try to talk to people in English—" the word 'English' is actually in English "—and we will get a person who is good at languages—" because 'linguist' is not a word she knows "—to try to decode yours if we don't find a parahuman—" human with powers "—that can do it."

She switches over to English completely. "English, yes. Thank you. I will wait and practice a power."

Legend looks worried. "Where?"

She holds up the glob of metal in her palm. It turns into a somewhat crude rendition of an unfamiliar animal. "Control."

Back to her own language. "I'd prefer to find a mountain and rest before doing much else. Fighting that monster was... Tiring."