"I'm not used to you swapping binary genders in the middle of a day," she remarks. She sits down. "Hi."

He sits down, too. "Today's a nonbinary day. I usually stick to a single gender on those, but I wanted to change up the experimental circumstances."

"Doesn't that fuck with your independent variable?"

"Eh, maybe, but I'm pretty sure I already know the answer."

"Really."

"Yeah."

"You want to turn in your results now or sit me here for a while longer keeping me in suspense?"

"Well, not exactly suspense, but I do want to make sure. There's effectively no body language to pick up on, here, so I have to kind of go with my gut and some small details. Don't wanna guess wrong just because I wasn't patient enough to check."

"All right."

"Alright, so, picking up where we left off... I had a thing I wanted to talk about but I can't remember what it was."

"That'll make it hard to pick up where we left off."

"Yeah! But now I remembered. Do you know if anyone triggered around the same time and place you did?"

"If they did they're trapped in London quarantine, Sadde."

"Oh, right. Man, fuck the Simurgh."

"Rather not."

"Anyway! Reason I brought it up was that I was reading some stuff undergrads study on Parahumans 101, and there was a bit talking about how people with more than one power tend to be parts of mass triggers."

"I didn't think Miss Militia was, although she doesn't exactly talk about it much."

"Maybe she doesn't know it is. And, I dunno, maybe not-sleeping doesn't count as a power at all? She's not the only cape with that thing, and no other powers have exact duplicates."

"There could be multiple ways to not-sleep."

"Yeah, fair enough, I suppose."

"Somebody's taking really effective microsleeps every few times they blink, somebody's sleeping and then time traveling to the past and erasing all memories of their shameful sleepy secret..."

"Time traveling would be huge, if whatever gives us powers used that to keep someone awake that'd be such a waste."

"Yes, I know."