I know. Dragon has those armbands, Rete got one.

Means we're right.

And that the three of them coordinate or that even non-Simurgh ones have Thinkery powers.

Yep. Bet it's obvious to Eidolon and his organization now too, though. 

We've got to figure out resurrection.

I have no angle on that.

Me neither. Maybe very very eventually.

I could maybe do something where people were uploaded and backed up? I think anything else is too far out of specialty.

There's no principled reason I can't do time-altering stuff including going back to get the information and do nothing else but it's - I have absolutely no idea how, I could take a thousand years to get it figured out. After the war.

Yeah.

Should I keep working on Thinker headaches or switch to something with more combat applications.

I mean it'd still sell but if Shadow Org aren't going to address the Endbringers that falls back to magic stuff.

Shadow Org might have just been gathering information. In which case now they have it. But I am not inclined to bet on institutions functioning. I'll do magic stuff. 

Yeah.

The Protectorate asks Dragon to track down the claim that they talked to a Thinker. She can trace the email to Eidolon all right but can't find any sign that they talked to any Thinkers with suitable powers. Contessa can't see Lorica.

Cauldron concludes that it is likely that Library Elf and Lorica, both known to have been exposed to the Simurgh, are compromised and trying to sabotage their best parahuman.

They can convince the Protectorate in its official form from there.

Dragon is giving Fëanáro a ride home from the Leviathan fight and redirects his drone.

Precogs can't see Lorica but her defenses on the house aren't anything special as capes go. She can be taken in her sleep.

Dragon lets him out on the roof of his library.

" - did Eidolon say this was a good idea."

"Just so you know, this drone now has an incommunicado sub-personhood instance and is basically a chatbot," says the drone. "It will self-destruct in twenty minutes. The Protectorate is of the opinion that you're compromised."

"I'm not actually going to let you all die," he says, "but you would super fucking deserve it. Where's Lorica."

"I don't have up to date information but I expect her to join you here soon."

"What happens if we try to leave."

"The city is guarded."

"But it's worse PR to have just shot me?"

"Nobody wants you dead. This is a safety precaution; it's not to punish you. You can live in your library and read all the books."

"You know I can't."

"I'm sorry."

"....huh.  I actually get the appeal of being a villain. I was thinking it was fundamentally psychologically alien but actually it's just that no one in my world sucks enough to provoke it. Go away. Activate self-destruct sequence. Die in a fire."