Not terribly socially adroit, more like.

They keep doing the English thing for a while.

After a bit, she grows bored and stops participating so much.

And after a bit they have things to do so they leave to do them, and the smaller ones are free to do whatever they have to do now.

She doesn't really... have... anything to do...

That's indeed the case! No one seems to have planned anything for them today.

She goes back to her room. And starts thinking about her powers. It seems she has a collection of them, bundled into small packages. Like capes living inside her. Which is weird. She figured out what some of them did during the Behemoth fight. But that wasn't really ideal conditions. This is a better place to sit and think and poke at ghosts to find out what they do.

She doesn't have an itemised list in her head, but she can sort of—feel for powers and classifications.

She has a lot of them. If all of these came from dead people—and where else would they have come from?—then that's upwards of a hundred people.

Well. That's. Hm. That's a lot of dead people. Dead capes. They can't all have come from Behemoth, right? What that says about her lost memories... They might be interesting. Or terrible. And she should maybe not let these Protectorate people know about them all.

Probably not.

Does she inquire further into what all these powers might be?

There's still time before bed. She'll focus on the ones that are less destructive first. She might actually be able to test those in her room.

She has those. Now that she knows to look for them, the forcefield and the dowsing powers are pretty easy to find. But she has a number of powers that can roughly be categorised as involving defense, extra senses, extra knowledge, various ways to nondestructively alter her environment...

Extra knowledge? That sounds interesting.

There's a few of those! This one has extra knowledge about ropes, this one about specific lasers, this one about heating things up, this one about roots...

That is interesting.

When she looks up next, its dark outside. She should probably get some sleep.

No one will bother her if she wants to do that even though she didn't go get dinner.

Eh. Not hungry.

Then good night!

And good morning, in due time.

They let Ellie and Sadde (and the other heroes, too) decompress for the next couple of days. People try to make sure the two youngest members of the team are comfortable and don't want for anything, and some of them seem particularly jittery around Ellie but it might just be her impression.

She's starting to think that someone's not telling her something.

Perhaps, perhaps not, who knows.

But today she has power testing!

Oh boy.

The lab is that-a-way.

Well. Off she goes.

The lab's door is closed but it does have a helpful sign saying "Power Testing Lab 03".