...Okay. Follow.

Back at the Wards' room there are two girls chatting, both much older than Sadde and Ellie, looking around late—and mid-teens respectively.

"I was never one to brag, right, but then he went all 'BWA HA HA! YOU ARE DEFEATED!' and I could not believe he was being such a comic book—oh, hi. Are you two new?" asks the younger girl. The older girl merely looks up from where she had been staring at the former and lowers her eyes. "I'm Barbra," she continues. "This is Hannah."

"Yes. Ellie."

"Sadde."

    "...that's a weird name. And wow you two are small. I didn't know you could come in that small." The girl stands up from the sofa where she's sitting, boops Hannah on the forehead, then walks over to the other two, leaning down to be level with their faces and peer at them, one at a time. "How old are you?"

    "Seven. How about you?"

"Fifteen. And you?"

"Dunno."

"Don't you know? Why not?—she's seventeen, by the way," Barba says, tilting her head in Hannah's direction, "but she isn't American and doesn't speak English very well. I'm teaching her, though!" She looks very proud of this.

"I woke up on the street during the Behemoth fight."

"Oooh! Are you one of those, you know," she looks around, then leans forward and whispers, "secret ones?"

"Secret?"

    "Oh, they don't talk about them but I found out anyway. Sometimes people show up with no memories and a tattoo that looks like... like this," she says, then boops Sadde's nose, runs over to a piece of paper and pen, and suddenly teleports back to Sadde and draws an upside down omega. "And they also usually look uglier than you."

"Uglier?"

    "Monsters, more like," she explains.

"I don't think I have one of those."

"Oh well." She teleports back to the sofa. "What's your power?"

"I have- ghosts that have powers." She calls up lighting-shade to float demonstratively behind her.

"Oooh! How many ghosts? Which powers?"

"Lots. I haven't- found them all yet."

"Which ones have you found?"

"This one does lightning blasts and there's one with a forcefield and a laser one and one that can find things and one that can be strong or shoot stuff."

"Be strong? So the ghosts are solid?"

"I haven't tried that one."

    "You should try it sometime! ...I guess not here though. How about you?" she asks Sadde.

"I don't know yet," she says, without looking at Ellie.

    "...don't know?"

"No."

    "How do you know you're a cape, then?"

"My power saved my life in the Behemoth attack."

"I can see people's powers."

"See them? See them how?"

"Sort of like my ghosts but attached to you instead of me."

"Oh! So we all have ghosts?"

"Yes."