Why do so many capes have this attitude of 'I will figure out which of my abilities are lethal as I go, by trying them on people I do not intend to kill'? This is not a new observation but it is a very frustrating pattern. Armsmaster doesn't want to be so much better than everyone, even though he obviously is, he wants everyone else to be minimally competent!

An engineer doesn't build a bridge to figure out if it will fall down. The PRT should send all heroes through engineering school.

"It is very important to know the damage your weapons will do to a target before using them. You would be liable for any harm you cause, whether intended or not. The PRT can provide power- and weapon-testing facilities and help to affiliated hero capes, I suggest you raise it at the meeting tomorrow."

"I'll do that then. It makes sense, I'm just not used to being able to kill things or people I'm not supposed to. And it seems like different types of attacks might be interchangable than I'm used to."

"Are you a recent trigger?" Either that or she spent a long time building her weapons before getting into a fight, which would have been reasonable if she had then spent some of that time testing them on acceptable targets. Like pigs.

"What does that mean? I did tell the people at your building that I'm from a long way away and I just got here."

"...did you acquire your powers recently," he clarifies.

"No, I've been like this for about fifteen years now."

She said she's not used to being able to kill people she shouldn't. That implies she was either limited to strictly nonlethal attacks until recently, or else that she hadn't fought any people she wasn't 'supposed' to kill for the past fifteen years until she came to Brockton Bay.

That is a very troubling implication but she probably misspoke, other people are rarely precise with language and the odd construction 'kill things or people' indicates she may not be a native speaker of English. In any case, if she showed restraint against Lung she can presumably refrain from murdering anyone until morning when they can question her properly. And she is a veteran cape (hero?) who wants to cooperate with the PRT and who just helped take down a major villain, so he shouldn't risk antagonizing her.

"I see. I need to escort Lung; I will be at the meeting tomorrow morning if you have any more questions for me."

"Okay. I'll see you then."

Well if this is done she'll go check on that beach party again. Is that still going?

It is, it's been less than an hour since she last saw it! There are around twenty young people sitting on beach chairs and towels. They have coolers with beer and snacks and a boom-box playing Chainsmokers, and one of the cars has top-mounted lights sending two bright beams out over the water.

Then she'll fly down wave to everyone and say a friendly "Hello!"

They scatter in alarm, especially the ones who had their back to her.

...wait, this isn't the other cape who sometimes flies down at people and cheerily says "hello" before possibly punching them.

"Hello?" some of them venture. They are clearly nervous and eyeing each other for clues and shuffling for better positioning in case of a fight.

"Oh, sorry for scaring you. Is this a private party? I was just flying around and looking for ways to pass the time."

...she doesn't seem to be saying that in a mocking or aggressive tone? Admittedly it's hard to tell given how she looks.

"It's not exactly open to strangers," one of the guys confirms eventually. "Who're you?"

"I'm going by Terrarian since having special names for heroes is the local style. I've been enjoying my time here so far. Had a fun fight even if it was a little tedious. I can go find something else to do if you like. I don't want to impose."

She's definitely mocking him but if she's going to attack she'll probably do it whatever he says, she's not giving him any cues to agree with her or obey her or whatever.

"Then I wish you a good rest of your night," he says as calmly as he can.

She'll take off and leave then. She's not interested in forcing her way through some complicated adversarial social game. Hmm, she could investigate the fancy rooftop gatherings but those seem even more likely to be private. Given the lack of clear options she'll fly a bit more to pass the time and look for somewhere that looks like she could stick a bed to pass some more time.

Regardless of whether she finds somewhere she'll kill time until morning and her appointment unless someone actively tries to talk to her.

(The people she just left make some frantic phone calls. "Yes, that's what I said - no I don't know if she knew who we were, how would I know, I didn't bloody well ask - well I can tell you she can fly, with wings, doesn't really look human but sounds like one, how would I know what else she can do - well I assume she can't hear me from a mile away because she's not coming the fuck back -")

Akira will arrive a couple minutes early for her appointment at the PRT building just in case.

The building is quite busy during opening hours! The doors are open and people can enter the lobby freely (there are still armed guards, of course). 

Akira draws a lot of stares, but no-one stops her; they've been briefed, and an obvious cape is in many ways less worrying than the fact anyone in the room could be a cape in secret.

The receptionist asks her to follow a trooper who'll show her to a meeting room; this process will take a couple of minutes.

She arrived precisely on time; he gives her an approving nod as he does the same.

"Hello. I am Deputy Directory Renick of the PRT East-North-East and I'll be interviewing you today, along with Armsmaster. I've read his report from last night and we have some questions for you, but as you're the one who originally requested this meeting is there something you'd like to discuss in particular?" He of course knows what she told the guards last night but would like to hear it in her own words.

"Yes, I haven't really found any sort of introductory or tutorial sorts of content since getting to this world. I kinda doubt fighting... that guy's name was Lung right? was the normal level of how things happen here. Armsmaster said this was a world where you need to know how to pull your punches so to speak so getting help with learning to do that would be good too."