She nodded, then checked her phone for the time. “I’d like to catch up sometime, talk about that sort of thing if you’re open to it. For now… to put it succinctly, I’m worried, the Wardens are worried, but our need for heroes is outweighed by the immediate concerns. There will be repercussions, the Wardens may say no when it comes to access to certain resources or features in coming days. Until you regain our trust. Some of it will sting, but for the time being, we need to deal with the Titans and the city and we’re willing to postpone that sting.”

I nodded.

“We will be looking in more. To keep track, and to ensure you don’t carry on down a worrying road. Not just you, either. Lookout will be sanctioned in other ways. There’s too much concerning activity there.”

I frowned, but I nodded. “As food for thought, though, if you have a thinker that’s clairvoyant and capable of seeing everything within a hundred miles around them, no off switch, you adapt, don’t you? PRT or Warden? You just accept them?”

“Yes. But Lookout makes the decisions to do what she does. There is an off switch.”

“She’s a kid with some struggles who just lost her favorite person less than a week ago. The off switch is really hard for her to flip. You’ve probably seen her file, so you know the history there. Can you let me try to address this?”

“You do that, try to address it, but we’ll have to do something too. We’ll go easy on her, especially if you’re taking a better course of action, but…”

“But you have to do something.”

“We can’t let that kind of invasive, dangerous behavior go entirely unanswered. In the same way we can’t look past your team’s activities last night and your ignoring rules earlier today, whatever the circumstance.”

I nodded. I didn’t have it in me for a fight, and a fight would have put things at risk, with Wardens deciding not to let me go out. And that wasn’t an option.

“Before I go… I came to talk to you armed with an argument I was ready to use if you weren’t cooperating. I didn’t find I had to use it… but I think I’d like to bring it up, just as food for thought.”

“Okay,” I said, wary.