Lucien and Bell in Worm canon
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"I'm not actually sure what you're cleared to know about that or how you found out it happened, so I'd rather not discuss it until and unless I get confirmation from him that it's fine."

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"The report on the incident was from Tunnel Teen."

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"...sure, but, you saying that, is not itself information from him direct to me about it."

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"I'm qualified to know all information relating to this incident and your mental state." 

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"That is, again, words you are choosing to say. I can get email in my helmet, if you want to ask him to send me a message."

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"You are not to contact your team captain during a psychiatric assessment." 

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"Then I guess we won't be talking about that event. I certainly wouldn't want anyone else telling you about my family if they'd compromised my identity."

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"I am cleared to know about the circumstances surrounding Tunnel Teen's family and the security and psychological risks related to that, Lorica."

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"I certainly hope that's true because if it's not you're in violation of some regulations."

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"Please remain here."

The psychiatric evaluator leaves, off to find someone with enough authority to convince Lorica otherwise. Contacting Lucien, when he and his parents are the subjects of the discussion, is obviously out of the question.

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She reads in her helmet and waits there.

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He returns a moments later, a bit nervously.

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"I was told you were having issues with the authorization provided to your evaluator." says the Chief Director of the PRT.

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"- Director Costa-Brown? Why in the world is this important enough to get you in town let alone in my psychiatric eval room?"

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"Thomas Calvert was short listed for replacing Director Piggot in the event of her incapacitation which would have been a catastrophic blow to the PRT. I'm in this room because you are at the center of this mess."

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"...okay? Do you have more questions for me, or should I CC you my report...?"

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"I need you to be fully honest with your psychological evaluation."

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"Uh... okay? I guess?"

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Then the evaluation can continue, with Costa-Brown leaving once it's become clear that Lorica is cooperating with the questions about Lucien's parents.

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"Yeah, I don't really have strong feelings about that? Some guys were harassing them, acting like they might get violent, and I shooed them and was a little jumpy when they were shifty about it but then I got the text from," sigh, "Tunnel Teen, whose horrible cape name that was forced on him by an indifferent bureaucracy is arguably more agitating than anything else about this story."

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Costa-Brown leaves.

"Did the encounter come to mind later? Even in a minor capacity?"

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"I guess it caused me to be aware that his folks are somewhat hurting for money? Or, uh, were before I noticed he can fab microchips and undercut Toybox."

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Notes are taken and further questions are asked but eventually the evaluation winds down.

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Finally. She goes back to her workshop.

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Later Alexandria composes her report to Cauldron. Coil's loss was a major setback for Project Terminus - the plan to establish stable parahuman feudalism - and Lorica's status as an apparent blindspot for precogs, including both Coil and Contessa, more than explains how this happened despite expectations of Coil's success. Tattletale is now a plausible alternative, as Contessa indicated. 

Alexandria's recommendation is to leave Lorica in Brockton Bay, and ideally align her with Tattletale. This will provide Tattletale with a useful resource and Tattletale's model of Lorica will serve adequately should Contessa need to account for Lorica's mental state in her paths. Alexandria's own assessment, based on reports from the evaluators and from her own brief meeting, confirm that this is a viable solution. She has taken steps to encourage this - pushing Lorica away from cooperation with the PRT via exercising the PRT's every ready desire for immense bureaucratic oversight. Transit's continued stationing at Brockton Bay and Tattletale's accumulation of wealth and evident desire to utilize Lorica as an ally will provide further incentives in this direction.

 

She recommends against plans for recruiting Lorica as a Cauldron asset - while she may remain unaffected by her shard and pragmatic enough to take action given knowledge of the upcoming end of the word, it seems likely she would deal poorly with Cauldron's modus operandi unless brought in on a level higher than would be reasonable. 

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