The old Noontide was almost certainly not the one we’d run into. That was a tidbit of info, because it suggested things about how she’d gone about picking out a name, that she hadn’t used our internet, because she hadn’t been able, or she hadn’t cared enough to.

‘3rd G’ was the next thing that caught my eye. My first instinct was to think of third generation capes. Capes with parents that had been the kids of capes. My second instinct was inspired by the mention of the prison. Goddess. I was left with the niggling feeling that more people had disappeared after Goddess had attacked the prison, and very few people had appeared.

Who was involved that hadn’t wanted to go back to Shin? The third member of Goddess’s cluster, potentially?

If so… the Patrol was working with the Wardens to keep tabs on a limited suite of parahumans. Because of the danger Goddess had posed, and because her cluster was paranoid about being targets and about being weak, her cluster had asked for protection. The Wardens hadn’t been able to provide a safehouse and around-the-clock bodyguard, but they had provided some guidance. Three members of the cluster were gone, Goddess included. Two had joined the Wardens, becoming employees. Two more had slipped through the cracks, maintaining a stipend if they would call in or visit on a regular basis.

Just to let the Wardens check that nothing too ugly was happening.

I could search them up, and with the search and the database access I’d been given, I could see some of the notes on the files.

Tori Heflin, NONE (109c)
Classify: Shaker
Power: Telekinetic reel-in, push-out, straight lines only, max 20 lb. weight.
Dispo: NON (Victim)
Age: 25
Appearance: Aboriginal, West Continent, Shin, round face, thick black hair, glasses. Tattoos, neck, dotwork triangles.
Notes: 109c Sought asylum and refugee status, victimized by Goddess. Claimed nonaffiliation, no interest in using powers or parahuman activities, but has been contacting other capes. See MER_CONTENDER, MER_LIONWING, MER_CRETAN. See attached files 109c_D and 109c_E.
To be monitored further.

I checked the profiles for each of the names. The link to ‘Contender’ gave me the image of the guy who had sealed me in his personal fighting arena.

Bingo.

The attached images took a minute to come up. ‘Tori Heflin’ was at a venue too dark to be a bar, sitting with a trio of people in civilian clothes. Each had a label highlighting them—the extra metadata and labeling was part of why it had taken a minute. I could click on each to bring up their respective files.