There's only one way out of this corridor of cells; outside it he can find a recently dead guard with a cut throat and an open door leading to a stairwell. There are shouts from both above and below him, and then a very-quickly-repeating sound (possibly of explosions); it's loud and echoes in the enclosed space, but it's probably coming from below.

Then he won't go below unless it seems like there's some really compelling reason to do that! Tasteless Outfit Man did him a good turn but does not seem to have been here for him. He'll try going up.

One floor up the door is locked. Another floor up the door was blown off its hinges but the entrance is now blocked by troopers who are preparing to take on whatever comes up from below.

Ugh, he just wants an exit. Are there windows such that he can even see if he's going the right way to hit ground level?

There are no windows in the stairwell. If he's very perceptive he may notice that the lighting past the troopers suggest sunlight and not artificial lights, but that would require him to get rather close to where they are.

The loud sounds from below have stopped and now there are running footsteps coming his way.

He doesn't actually think horses can do stairs.

He'll press to the wall out of the way and wait for whoever's coming up to get through the troopers for him.

Hot Hot Man is here to do just that!

...should he kill that guy - no, that is Definitely Not Bug Controller guy. He'll run past him to kill the guards instead.

Yay. Once they are dead Raimon continues to Just Walk Out.

Don't give us up for dead yet! What if we fill the stairwell with foam and also with bullets?

YOUR PUNY BULLETS ONLY MAKE THE RAGING DRAGON GROW - 

What if grenades started exploding behind your line?

The troopers can't stop both of them with no cape support and the doors sabotaged open. They fall back, leaving two dead and carrying several injured. Luckily for them, Lung and Oni Lee are too much in a hurry to escape to pursue them deeper into the building.

Raimon can now leave. Past the remains of burned foam and the dead bodies is a short corridor which leads straight to a large empty lobby whose glass doors were shattered, and then - freedom.

Mood. Raimon will himself be taking a watchful waiting approach for ways to fuck these jerks up.

Outside the building the city looks like a warzone. A building across the street has collapsed; people in bright orange vests are rescuing and treating survivors. Smoke, mostly black but sometimes in bright exotic colors, is rising from several places at varying distances,. The air smells of fire and concrete dust and there are sounds of rapid explosions in the far distance. People are rushing everywhere, civilians and troops in different color uniforms and carriages of all kinds. 

Nobody pays him any attention.

Wow, what a mess.

How about this time he picks a non-sea direction.

"Mount." Up and on and now he gets to try to weave between rubble and flames and active conflict and get away from this fucking city.

This fucking city looks like it's in the middle of being invaded, or possibly putting down a particularly vicious riot.

There are collapsed buildings. There are huge explosions (luckily none near him) threatening to collapse more buildings and leaving huge holes in the streets. There are plumes of smoke in weird colors, a large perfectly reflective bubble, pools of unidentifiable liquid. Some of them are on fire. The clouds over towards the ocean are tinted green.

There is a terrific amount of noise, a constant stream of chaotic explosions and rumbles and crashes of all sizes and at various distances, the distant (or sometimes near) wailing of carriages, everybody shouting to make themselves heard over the noise.

There are constructs flying over the city, with little stubby wings that don't flap and a long tail and a flat disk of shadow suspended over their tops, and they make yet more noise and sometimes flash with light. 

There are people and carriages full of people and other carriages with opaque windows so it's impossible to tell what is inside, all rushing about.

Nobody pays Raimon the slightest amount of attention. A surprise horse is very firmly Not Important today.

As he picks his way he will encounter a group of four people, all various degrees of wounded. A black man in what might be leather armor is carrying a unconscious, battered-looking slight girl in a fireman's carry and clearly struggling with it; he is favoring one leg. A young woman in a body-hugging dress that might have been bright purple at some point looks like her face and arms were burned; a slight man is cradling his left arm like it's broken. 

All four are struggling along the mildly-blown-up street, the woman holding one of those boxes to her ear. When she notices Raimon, she says something urgently to the armored man.

Yes, it has clearly been a rough day for everybody. He doesn't recognize any of these people and therefore doesn't have anything in particular against them; he'll trot up a bit closer so he can get them in a channel if they don't do something inexplicably hostile in response to that.

Up closer he will notice that various insects are flying to the unconscious girl and landing on her. They don't seem to be stinging her or doing much of anything, really, just sitting there or crawling around her body. It's like she was sprayed with bug attractant that also somehow made all these different spiders and wasps and the one praying mantis not eat or kill any of the flies and moths. The man who's carrying her doesn't seem to have his own collection and they're all ignoring the bugs, even this alarmingly large carpenter bee that just walked across her face from ear to ear.

Cape. Many powers. Healer. Can heal group. Instantaneous healing. Full health. Sometimes to full health.

"Grue, that man's a healer cape!" Tattletale whispers urgently. They really, really need to get him to help them, for money or whatever favors it takes, Taylor might end up with brain damage if doctor bloody "Q" isn't good enough and Tattletale does not want to do power-assisted surgery.

"Shit, how do we talk to him - it has to be you, figure something out -"

They're unmasked but the much bigger problem is that the healer is too. If they approach him he's likely to feel in danger or to think they're threatening him, he could lash out or deny it and run away.

Power, if I approach him and ask for healing how will he react?

Would think it normal. Would not be upset at people knowing he has powers.

...really? Then, then she can just offer to pay him -

Does not speak English. Does not speak any language <host> knows.

Oh come on, of all the stupid problems! They're obviously in need of healing, and everyone knows what money looks like... If only she had a lot of money on her, which she doesn't, she only has like two hundred bucks... How does she convince him they're good for it...

He actually does not know what money looks like (though he'd figure it out if presented with some). He just thinks they look like they could use it. He gets close enough and touches his triple-dagger symbol and bam.

!!!

Her power did say instantaneous but she didn't really think - not even Panacea works like that, and he did it at range to four people -

There's not a publicly known healer in the world who's this good, not unless Eidolon got into the business. And he did it unmasked, for random people on the street? 

Brian is setting Taylor down and talking to her urgently and Regent is asking what the hell just happened and Lisa is, very unusually and very temporarily, shocked silent.

What the hell kind of price are they about to pay for this?!

Power had no effect besides healing. Power had no cost to user. Power limited, very few uses per day. 

And he spent one of his few daily charges on strangers? Why?

Not expecting payment. Did not use power to gain something.

...does he not want anything? Besides money? Why is this cape going around (riding around!) unmasked in the middle of practically a warzone and spending his few healing charges on random strangers? 

Wants many things. Wants to leave city. Wants to go home. Wants to escape. Escape PRT. Wants to -

OK, OK, that's maybe something she can use! What's with him and the PRT?

Escaping PRT. Was prisoner. Broken out. Broken out incidentally, another prisoner being broken out. Lung was broken out.

...it is obvious in retrospect that Bakuda bombed like half the city and drew this much heat for a reason and that reason was a distraction to spring Lung. Lisa was in her defense kind of preoccupied with Bakuda trying to personally murder her, but: Lung being free is very bad news for everyone in the city but especially for the Undersiders!

Wait he's turning to leave like he's done here - nonono, a healer is super useful, she wants to pay him if they can keep him around!

Lisa frantically digs out her $200 and offers it to him. "Thank you! Don't go, we can pay you more, we can help you -" she needs to get him talking so her power has something to work with -