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As does Sadde.

The woman is very chipper and shows them everything—there's the cafeteria, of course, and the library, and the common room of the Wards, and the common room of the adult heroes, and various dormitories, and the common bathrooms, and there's a room for sparring and a room for power testing and a lab and a bunch of offices and...

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It is!

At the end of the tour they're told they can go pretty much anywhere that's not, like, other people's (like offices) or has sensitive work/delicate stuff (like labs) and they're free to go do whatever.

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Oookay. Library?

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Where they left it yesterday.

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She feels more comfortable to take her time and browse now.

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The books are in fact organized by theme: fiction (SF/F mostly but some cheesy romances and a couple of action thrillers), physics (mostly very specific ones relating to powers), mathematics (only like half a dozen but they're veritable tomes), recent history (especially regarding capes), newspaper clippings (pretty varied), and a smattering of every other subject that's interested a local cape.

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Context would be helpful. Recent history.

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How recent?

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Start with... the first capes?

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The first cape was Scion: appearing in 1982, floating naked above the ocean by a cruise, he probably isn't much of a cape in the strictest of senses given he never stops heroing about. After him, though, more and more people started going out in costume to fight for justice. One of the first one, Vikare, turned out to be this guy who touched Scion's hand when he was first seen, which apparently gave him powers and cured him of cancer.

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When did the Protectorate start?

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As a team, in 1988, a bit less than a year after superheroes came out to the public, but they didn't join the government until 1993, when the PRT was formed to oversee parahuman activity in the United States.

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And what year is it now?

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1994.

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Huh.

...What's in the newspapers?

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Mostly cape-related news. The oldest ones are locked and only accessible via a computer next to them, and the newest ones focus on recent battles.

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Why are they locked? Can she get at them?

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Through the computer, sure.

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What do they say?

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Mysterious golden man caught on tape! Strange masked people with powers: vigilantism or superheroism? Umasked: the true story of Vikare. Giant monster attacks oil station. And stuff like that.

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Okay.

What's Sadde doing?

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Sitting alone in the Wards common room, not doing anything, with her eyes closed. Not asleep, though.

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Weird. Wonder what she's doing.

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The ghost next to her looks... anxious.

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