"I understand, in these situations resources are always the problem, but people here seem more competent than most. I lived in third world countries for awhile where people had much less." There weren't experiment, there weren't wild weather patterns, but there was war and famine and starvation. Bruce finagled some things while he was there. It wasn't enough. It never would be. "I do have a photographic memory so I can use that a little, and humans used to only have oral histories to go off of anyway.

"Gathering food and blankets will be priority. This could start picking us off one by one." He had people to worry about now. They could take care of themselves, yes, but he already spoke to teenagers. Kids. Formerly super powered kids, but they had to come first. "Do you think people are holding back from getting together more because they really have nothing in common, or there's just a lack of communication?"