Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

The Deputy Chief Director looks at his computer's screen, clicks a few things, and nods. "Indeed, they have emailed me about it. That sounds like an excellent idea, and makes me believe the conversation was a success."

"Yes. They seem very strict and I don't think they'll leave me alone while I am there, but they were polite at least and I still want to help even if they are going to be like that."

He nods, giving no other sign about whether he'd been expecting something along those lines. "You have a communication device, yes? Have you been given a phone?"

"No. Alexandria gave me this but it is not a phone." She points. The radio com is stuck to the inside of her helmet near her left ear and the translator is in the same place on the right.

"Hmm. I can arrange for you to be given one, it's better for asynchronous communication and leaving messages without necessarily needing you to be in a position to receive them immediately."

"Sure. I need to learn to use it of course."

"It should be easy enough to figure out, you will get an instructions manual with it to consult."

"Yeah, most things here have been easy to use. It's good. Did you have someone look at my notes on the tunnels?"

"I have sent them to some people, but they have not had the time to look at the notes yet."

"Okay. So I think I am done with things here today. Can I get some money? I will work for it if you want. I want things for my mountain and I can't just wear rocks forever."

"I believe that can be arranged. While your circumstances are highly... unusual... you can be said to have become homeless after an Endbringer attack, and we have a relief fund for Endbringer victims."

"Don't need too much. Not enough for a house, I made one. Oh, I could sell stone! Or is that illegal too?"

"You would normally need a mining permit to extract stone from the earth, but if you do it from international land such as Antarctica or from the bottom of the ocean in such a way as not to compromise weather stability, you shouldn't have a problem."

"I'll look into this later. Find someone who knows people who want things from the earth."

"Your phone will have access to the internet, you should be able to find them easily."

"I don't know about the internet yet. What is it?"

"You know about computers in general, yes?"

"Some. Have not practice using one much."

"The internet is the name for the international connection between them all. If a computer—or a phone—connects to it, it can access a number of virtual 'locations,' called websites, hosted in other computers around the world. There are websites dedicated to buying and selling several things, including stones."

"Oh, that sounds good. I will have to learn to use it. Thanks for explaining. Is there anything else I should do now?"

"I don't think so. Thank you very much for all your help. You will be given a phone and instructions on how to use it as well as the bank account where money from the Endbringer relief fund will be deposited."

She's confused for a moment - what has she actually done for them? Leviathan was trashing Japan. But of course, international cooperation is a thing here.

She says bye and leaves and collects her phone and finds some out-of-the-way place to play with the internet for a while.

Eventually she receives a text message asking if tomorrow afternoon is good for her.

Sure, why not, tomorrow afternoon is fine.

She figures out how to use email and sends a batch of emails to various possibly relevant companies in only slightly broken English explaining that she is a new cape ('cape' being different from 'parahuman' and thus not a lie) who can make and manipulate large amounts of stone and other earth-sourced things. Her name is Mountain, the Protectorate can verify her existence, and she'd be interested in selling services and materials.

Then she flies to one of the relatively cheap clothes stores she found on the internet. She's dropped most of the outer layers of her rock armor because it's too bulky (she can always make more after all), but is still pretty clearly a cape. She keeps her helmet because people seem surprised whenever she doesn't.