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So Glam tests their power some more, and then has a meeting with Piggot where they explain the Siberian. She listens carefully, then asks them not to demonstrate, and says she will communicate that to the appropriate people. That takes a while, and then Lorica is asked to confirm this, and then Glam is asked to demonstrate to very few people with very high clearance.
This should not get out, it would be a PR nightmare, but if the Sibarian copy does what it looks like it does, its help will be invaluable in the upcoming Endbringer fights. When Glam decides to use that power, the story will be that a power copier has grabbed the Siberian's and is using it against the Endbringer, that people should not panic, and that she is an ally. Glam mentions, since they're all being so cooperative about telling everyone on the comms, that the Siberian copy doesn't have to look like the original, so people can know whether to panic or not based on her shape.
That leaves, of course, Glam's own willingness to face the Slaughterhouse Nine. Even if they don't know that Siberian is them, they will likely cause problems, and this will need to be carefully planned.
Careful plans tend not to survive contact with reality, and that is doubly true when the next Endbringer attack happens only two months and nine days after the previous one.
Not that it would matter much: Glam is definitely not going to a Simurgh fight, not yet.
"No, that means I have absolutely no plan at the moment and this fact terrifies me."
Sigh. "Not that I don't appreciate that she gave me the idea but why does the Siberian have to exist."
"I assume she had some suitably horrifying trigger event."
"What kind of trigger event would even do that," she wonders. "She's not like a regular Brute or Breaker, if she has a regular human form she doesn't ever even show it."
"She might be a case 53. In which case she doesn't so much have the trauma excuse, but."
"Really well. She hung way back, medic-ing people as fast as they could be brought in, she was amazing. It's hard to be sure if she reversed song effects too, but the observations were consistent with that. As soon as my bots are up one of them is going to bring her ice cream."
"Emailing," says the base station.
"I don't have really strong feelings about it either way."
"This seems like one of those things that might be a problem if you didn't invite all the Wards, sort of like elementary school Valentines..."
"Unless no Wards at all were invited and only your school friends were, if it's more of a secret identity party thing."
"If it were, you couldn't throw it for me," Lorica points out.
"All the Wards know who you are and that you-qua-Glam are dating me-qua-Lorica."