"I'm glad you liked it."

He pauses.

"You're not really into me, are you?"

"Oh, um... no I don't think I've ever felt that way about a person. It wasn't until I got to college that I had a word for it. I'm asexual."

He chuckles.

"Alright then. It was nice to meet you Sapphire. I'll see you around, I guess."

"I expect we will it doesn't sound like there's that many powered people around."

"No, there aren't. Good night."

He transitions away.

After Guy leaves Sapphire spends another while enjoying the aurora. Eventually she calls the league and makes arrangements for identification documents, a visa and a hotel room in New York to later be followed up by more permanent arrangements. She takes the time to sleep and then spends the next week and a half repairing hospitals, electrical infrastructure and water infrastructure. After she wraps that up she gets back in touch with the league in the hopes of advice and help making a longer term plan.

Batman is available to speak with her.

"Miss Eyestone. You've been busy. What did you want to speak about?"

"I'm looking for advice. There's an endless amount of things I could be doing but I'm not sure how to prioritize. I remember Guy mentioning working to eliminate Malaria but he said that was a very long project with three lanterns. I also floated the idea of using my ring to improve the technology available but he suggested that I shouldn't just trust designs it came up with without understanding the engineering behind it and I'm not an engineer. I'd also like to help more with disaster relief and I thought maybe the league would be a good source for what disasters are happening or happened recently."

He pauses to think. There are a lot of things that could be done with a power ring, especially one without the Guardians' restrictions. But he doesn't know how much he can trust her, and his information says she doesn't want to get into fights. Best to stick with something safe, and keep an eye on her.

"Eradication of diseases is probably one of the highest-leverage options available to you. The Green Lanterns have already picked the low-hanging fruit, but there are still plenty of things you can make progress on. Cleaning up environmental damage, particularly in countries where it is not well contained, is something I expect to be relatively easy and impactful. Improving the technology of Earth... would be very useful, but I advise you to be careful. Technologies that seem innocuous can sometimes enable the development of more deadly weapons. If you're interested, I can set you up with a team at STAR Labs to help you figure out information that is useful and probably safe. If and when disasters take place for which your assistance would be useful, we will of course inform you."

"That makes sense. I'll do some research on diseases and see where I might be able to help. I might also see about upgrading some hospitals in poorer areas I imagine that would be helpful. Though maybe that would make them targets. I'd be happy to talk with the team about technology. And I appreciate the confirmation that you'll tell me about disasters."

"Upgrading hospitals would be unlikely to do more harm than good, but there are a number of potentially thorny secondary effects. I'll set up a meeting for you at STAR Labs in a couple of days."

"What secondary effects are you thinking of?"

"Giving people things for free, in an even slightly predictable way, is likely to depress commercial production of those things. Some hospital equipment, like the more expensive machines, has intellectual property protection, so in addition to the problematic incentives you could run into legal trouble. Although I suppose if your efforts to develop new technologies are successful, businesses would have less incentive to research and develop new machines anyway. I also expect that if you give some people fancy new hospitals, some of the people who don't get fancy new hospitals will complain that you aren't being fair. Which may or may not be useful publicity to have. There might be more."

"Those all make a lot of sense. I'll definitely give it some thought before moving forward with the hospital idea."

"There's one more thing worth mentioning to you. Ten days ago, there was a fire at Cadmus Labs, in Washington DC. This triggered a... series of events, which exposed evidence of... troubling events taking place at Cadmus. The Justice League elected to investigate, although after a few hours, this investigation was turned over to the FBI, at the government's request. Perhaps you will find it useful to research these events."

It's a bit of a gamble, but he thinks she's more likely to be helpful than harmful in this matter. And it will be instructional to see what she does.

"I'll take that under advisement. Is there anyone involved who I could talk to? Or perhaps was it widely publicized?"

She understands he's gesturing at his hands being tied but she's not sure where to begin.

"It may have been mentioned in a few newspapers. I'm sure you'll be able to learn things, with the resources you have."

He isn't willing to tell her about the team just yet. The more secrecy they have, the better.

"Thank you for all your advice."

"You're welcome. Please feel free to contact me again if you have further questions or any information to share."

"I'll do that have a nice day." She closes the call. Ring access local networks and find any articles you can about the incident Batman mentioned.

"Compliance."

There are two newspaper articles about the fire, in local papers. They're both relatively short, in the back pages of the paper. Apparently, Cadmus Labs, a genetics research laboratory in DC, caught fire the evening of July 4th, and was attacked by a supervillain later that night. Said supervillain was apprehended by the Justice League. There is speculation that the fire and supervillain attack were connected, but officially the cause of both events is unknown. Both articles were published the day after the incident. There were no follow-ups.

Ring... if you access the computer systems at Cadmus how likely are you to be noticed?

"Probability of detection is dependent upon methods used to access computers. Recommend iterating with gradually more detectable methods until access is gained."

Would it be helpful to be closer to the location?

"Affirmative."