"Well, the Undersides don't have nearly as much to fill out as the Wards did. I'm not saying I miss all the bureaucracy but I do wish we kept better track of things than our current set-up of 'ask Tattletale, she'll probably know where the money is'." 

"I'm going to need to be paid in advance with a clawback-proof contract, by the way."

"Would you accept real estate as collateral?"

"Might depend on the real estate."

"We own a sizable chunk of Brockton Bay and now Montreal - if you insist I think we could sell enough of it to raise the money outright."

"Well, it'll trade off against speed of delivery on the train because I'd need to program Rete to be a landlord."

"We can probably pay cash in that case,"

"Delightful. Though I just contemplated things to buy with my billions of dollars and thought 'skyscraper' so maybe I do just directly want a skyscraper if you have a nice one."

"I think we'd be happy to trade you skyscrapers for trains, yeah."

"One skyscraper. One tastefully architected conveniently located skyscraper."

"Anything in particular back home that meets your standards?"

"Rete proposes the Torrance Tower."

"Yeah, that's one of ours - inherited it from Coil I think." 

"Did he booby-trap it?"

"No, it was just a real estate investment - he owned a decent chunk of the downtown."

"I will turn it into a beautiful lair."

"What makes something a lair in particular?"

"Having capes in it."

"And here I thought lairs were only for villains."

"Nope. They are morality-agnostic."

"Very reasonable. I do feel like my place would need some redecorating to be a proper lair but the Undersider's lair was basically a college dorm up until a year ago so what do I know."

"What, like with fairylights and loft beds and whatnot?"

"More video games and old pizza boxes than fairy lights."

"I've never been to college so all my information is people's photos of the more photogenic aspects."

"I'm going off TV shows."