Eventually he wakes up. Watches this for a bit, bewilderedly. "Are you gonna try them on?"

"Some of them? But I'm bad enough at picturing things before I make them that I think this helps even without them. I can probably donate the extras to some of, like, the trillion humans we're gonna bring through here at some point. D'you have opinions? Also do you want to come with me to heal people, because if so you should probably also have a superhero costume of some kind and probably they should coordinate. I know you can't do a ton of healing yourself yet but I figured I could give you a bunch of wands to use."

"Seems kind of weird? I can if you want me to."

"I mean I admit that on some levels it's kind of stupid? But I thought about it, and I think my parents are simple people with simple narrative needs. As long as we can get them to pattern-match the weirdness we have surrounded ourselves with to superhero stories or science fiction and not sword and sorcery fantasy, we'll probably be mostly fine? And I think this is actually mostly a difference of aesthetics. Also Matt pointed out that if I don't have a secret identity then I will have to deal with the entire world discussing my childhood and possibly harassing my family."

"I don't think I ...understand...the relevant aesthetics. So you will have to tell me what to do."

"Oh right, you haven't seen any superhero stuff ever. Well. I think having a correctly styled costume does, like, eighty percent of the work, and helping people does most of the other twenty percent. My plan is that I give you a bunch of wands and you use them on people in particular parts of the hospital, and if necessary ask for directions to more people to heal. I'll do most of the actual healing, but having you there and doing things will both establish that we're working together on this, and will hopefully tell my spell book that I want to be able to give other people more powers."

"Okay."

She hands him an outfit (mostly plain, with her holy symbol on the chest), a staff, and a bag with an assortment of wands. "Remove disease, cure critical wounds, restoration, neutralize poison. The staff has one charge of heal and five charges of raise dead. We can come here between hospitals and swap your equipment out if you end up needing more."

"Can't you just mass heal everyone in the hospital with one spell?"

"Unfortunately I think hospitals are probably bigger than my spell range. I'm not a hundred percent sure what the range is, but the Pathfinder spell is pretty short-range. I will end up doing most doing most of the healing, I'm sure, but I do think you'll have time to do something before I'm done. And the more I give you the ability to do the more likely it is that my spellbook will pick up on the fact that I want to be able to give you more powers."

"That makes sense."

Kiss. "Thank you for going along with my ridiculous plans. I also wanna shapeshift us in case we get unmasked. I think I'm gonna have to use disguise self, which gives us a forty minute time limit per hospital. I also wanna test whether I can effectively teleport us by going between planes. First stop is Azalea's house to look up which hospitals we should go to. Sound good?"

"Uh huh."

"Cool. I'm gonna go get changed. See you in a bit."

And she heads off to put on superhero clothes.

He's still confused about this whole thing but he'll change too.

It's kind of a dumb plan except for the thing where it's probably going to work. Hopefully.

Eventually she comes back and makes a wand of disguise self and teleports them to her house, where she looks up hospitals.

" - oh. Hey guys. You doing okay?"

"Yeah. We're going to go win your parents' approval for our marriage by flying around in costumes. It's a cultural thing I haven't had enough exposure to."

"...I assume this would make at least slightly more sense if I heard the full version. You guys're getting married?"

"Yeah."

"I would object that you're basically babies but I guess I was about your age. Take good care of her."

"Gonna do my best."

"Cool. - Karen I actually really think you should explain the costumes thing to me in case I get a call from mom and dad and am expected to know any of what's going on at this point."

She's printing something off from the computer. "Yeah. Uh, I figure I have to metaphorically come clean about at least some things to mom and dad eventually, and if I'm a superhero it makes narrative sense that I'd be keeping secrets, and also provides a narrative reason for me to know Connor, and also makes the time dilation less weird, and also keeps them from worrying that I have actually been possessed. And - they're still gonna be concerned but I figure this is better than telling them everything or telling them nothing. And if I'm lucky maybe they'll be touched that I took time out of my weird time-dilation-related superhero plans to let them know that I'm getting married."

"Good... luck? How do the costumes fit in."