"There's a guy," Claire whispered, keeping as close to Cissie as possible even given the crowd that surrounded them, her breathing shallow. "A really, really bad guy, like psychopath or sociopath, I don't... really know the difference between the two that well, but you get the idea. He's able to steal the abilities of anyone who has special powers, kills them to steal all of that, and he's going to try and blow up the city. I've seen this before, and it ends okay, my uncle really saves the day but."

She shifted her weight from foot to foot. "But I'm not sure that he survives all that and so I want to, I need to find him, just to make sure."