Later, after Lorica has gotten some tinkering done, Lucien stops by.

"You've been cleared of any significant wrongdoing and Armsmaster and I managed to convince them that even assigning you to console duy would be inappropriate."

"Oh, next time you don't need to do that, I love console duty."

"Huh! Even I don't like console duty."

"The bot can do almost all of it while I read a book or get some programming done."

"I'm jealous. Armsmaster's heroic first attempt to wade into PRT politics all for naught. Well, not for naught - they were considering other things aside from console duty."

"They threatened to relocate me to another city!"

"Yeah, your dad being a hero here probably helped prevent that - Wards are moved more frequently than Protectorate members."

"Which is honestly kind of fucked up, an adult moving their family for work is pretty normal but you generally don't uproot a whole family because of the teenager's job."

"The argument they were making is that it would be for your protection from Tattletale. And possibly from me and my parents, but I couldn't quite tell if they were implying that."

"Oh, is that why they were so insistent I had to talk about my feelings about that event."

"They remain suspicious of anything involving my parents."

"Bleah."

"Yeah."

"In the future you should probably just report interactions you have with them, it'll avoid suspicion falling on you."

"What I told the shrink was that I did not know if she was authorized to know about your family and she wouldn't let me check in with you about it. Director Costa-Brown showed up to convince me that it was clear."

"Jeeze, I was in a meeting with her for like five minutes, with half a dozen other people. I don't really know what to think of her intervening like that. She seemed reasonable during the meeting I saw her in."

"She wasn't unreasonable, it was just, you know, startling."

"I can imagine."

"Calvert really spooked them - the PRT does not like how close they came to having a director be a cape, much less a villainous one."

"No kidding."

"I think they have an instinct to lash out at all capes when that sort of things happens. A show of force of non-cape governance."

"I feel like I came out all right, even if I have to go on patrol instead of the sweet embrace of console duty."

"I could probably get you assigned console duty as punishment for something else if you'd like."

"Save it for something juicy so you can sell it."

"Oh no, how dare Lorica leak that I can't actually make tunnels. I'll assign her loads of console duty so she'll know never to do it again."

"But it was all for your benefit. I had to somehow release you from the yoke of that heinous name."

"But think of the all the merchandise that will have be recalled!"