"Neat, sounds handy. We don't have any other actual tinkers on the wards roster right now - Gallant just poses as one for PR reasons. His actual power is emotion inducing blasts and emotion sensing - though neither works on you I'm guessing."

"Part of the idea with the paired patrols to is to get people to know each other outside of a group dynamic, so I could rotate you through pairing with a few of the member of the team to introduce you and we'll go from there?"

He can move around slots on the touchscreen to have her paired with Vista, Gallant, and himself for her next three patrols once she's had a bit more time to build her gear, assuming she's good with this.

"Makes sense to me."

"Great!"

Once Lorica is ready she can do her first patrol with Vista! The area they patrol is pretty nice, but Vista does her best to teach Lorica the basics, noting that not all patrols are this easy but Lorica's new. Vista is an enthusiastic instructor of patrolling and actually manages to be a decent teacher, regardless of how young she is. A few tourists passing by want to pose for selfies with the two heroes. Vista very seriously informs Lorica that the Wards are encouraged to do this, unless it interferes with completing their patrol. 

Lorica doesn't mind standing next to people while they snap pictures of her totally opaque helmet.

Surprisingly many people want to during the first half of the patrol - new heroes are exciting! The second half is more boring so Vista brings up the subject of whether there are useful synergies between her and Lorica's powers.

"I would be happy to experiment with how my robots navigate warped space but I think we might not want to be on patrol for experimentation."

"Oh yeah, but it'd be really neat if your robots could find their way around in my space warping and no one else could."

"It would! I might need to update their programming to make it work though."

"Yeah, I bet my power would mess with them right now."

"Yeah. But we should carve out powers interaction testing time for sure back at HQ."

"Yeah." 

Vista is happy to do this later that day if Lorica has the time, otherwise she's free on this day, or this day, or really most days. She's especially free during times when she might otherwise have to be home.

Lorica is available during a very Youth Guard Approved range of hours, but has gotten her main software so that it can do her homework so she's very available during those.

"Could your program do my homework?" Vista asks while filling out a worksheet for her algebra class.

"Probably. Don't think you need algebra?"

"Knowing where straight lines are going to intersect isn't very important for me," she says, flexing the space around her to demonstrate.

"I mean, it might be useful to know what they'd be doing if you didn't interact with them."

"Hrm."

"But if you tell me you don't need Chaucer or whatever I wont contradict you."

Vista seems to accept this response and finishes up her algebra herself.

"Want to test our powers now?"

"Sure. Is there a room you like for practice?"

There's a large room that doubles as a gym and a place for practicing with powers. Vista shows Lorica where the big foam obstacles are - they're useful for practicing with her battlefield control.

Lorica has three robots now. She scatters them throughout the room.

Vista starts warping space, aiming to mess with the guidance systems of the robots as much as she can. She'll also try tagging one of them if Lorica thinks that would be a good challenge.

"What does that do exactly?"

"Oh I meant like. The game tag. I'd just try to touch them. If they were a villain I'd be using my taser but we don't need to do that here."