Alexandria replies to it thanking Dragon for all her efforts, and mentally sighs about the whole deal. Not many parahumans are immune to the Simurgh, and few others looked as thoroughly so as that Lorica kid, but of course that was just a ploy by the Endbringer, it's the kind of obvious-in-hindsight thing she often spends her leisure time kicking herself about.

Next email...

- okay.

He writes Dragon and Lorica. 

Alexandria (/Director Costa-Brown, I guess that's sketchy but honestly at this point I have very low expectations and political intrigue hardly cuts it) didn't know. Thinks the Simurgh set up 'someone looking immune to the Simurgh' and that this was very clever.

Well. It would have been. (I guess now we can blackmail her if we want?) If she's also Costa-Brown I would expect her to know if any of them did.

Costa-Brown and a high-rated Thinker. I do expect she'd know. Copied Dragon also. 

Alexandria is not on record as being able to do without sleep.

Clever. I think I'd try for different time zones if it were me but maybe she was already U.S.-based in both identities. 

Wonder if Legend and Eidolon know that.

Seems like if you worked with her routinely in both identities it'd be hard to miss. Unlikely they've never seen her unmasked, for instance.

They might not. Eidolon could Thinker something and Legend has super vision though, they probably know.

And they probably all bought their powers. Though we don't know how tight-knit the power-buying organization is.

There are too many buyers for them to be very tight but if they keep anyone in their pocket those would be them.

What's our plan now that we know they're, uh, only involved in different and less dangerous conspiracies?

They might buy the story that the Rete vestige Dragon just "cleaned up" contained the information that actually convinced her.

And then they ask Dragon to fetch us out of Baltimore? Worth a try.

And she's like "I did it thirty-five minutes ago", yeah.

Sure, worth a try. 

Dragon sends them a draft. It has bullet points.

He reaches home. "I vaguely expect this just results in them sending us back somehow but I don't have a reason to expect that beyond that - trying to follow the rules always works that way."

Lorica hugs him. "They don't know she owns this island."

Hug.

"You can stay with me and be in my shadow."

"It's a good thing I like your company." Squeeze. 

Looks good, go ahead and send it.

And Dragon does.

"So whenever hair things happen are there, like, things that I should not do that would just be transparently obvious to Elves but I'm not one so I dunno?"

"I mean, don't pull it out? Do humans do that?"