[One of the First Circle agents looks their way and Peter eyes them pensively. His relationship with cops is very...mixed. Fortunately, the agent doesn't follow them.]
Verim? Yeah, I'm wondering about that too.
[He shakes his head.]
If the only protection some of these people have is the occasional royal that thinks they're human when everyone else doesn't, the problems here might be too big for us to fix.
[A pause.]
I'm Ben, by the way. Ben Reilly.
[The Strangers will likely be working together and are too small a group for him to hide behind the mask easily. It's much easier to hide who you are in a pile of 8.6 million New Yorkers. But he figures his face doesn't matter so much as his name. It's a very nondescript face. His name is what could let someone look him up back home, let them find MJ. The divorce is on public record and might not be enough to prevent an enemy from gunning for her.]
[So he's going with a fake name while he's here. Ben, after his uncle, which is Peter's middle name anyway. And Reilly, Aunt May's maiden name.]
With the not talking thing, I think we're supposedly able to talk psychicly now, right? Want to try that? Otherwise, I bet we can scrounge up a pencil and paper somewhere.
[He looks around the bazaar to see if there might be a shop of some kind that sells that.]
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Verim? Yeah, I'm wondering about that too.
[He shakes his head.]
If the only protection some of these people have is the occasional royal that thinks they're human when everyone else doesn't, the problems here might be too big for us to fix.
[A pause.]
I'm Ben, by the way. Ben Reilly.
[The Strangers will likely be working together and are too small a group for him to hide behind the mask easily. It's much easier to hide who you are in a pile of 8.6 million New Yorkers. But he figures his face doesn't matter so much as his name. It's a very nondescript face. His name is what could let someone look him up back home, let them find MJ. The divorce is on public record and might not be enough to prevent an enemy from gunning for her.]
[So he's going with a fake name while he's here. Ben, after his uncle, which is Peter's middle name anyway. And Reilly, Aunt May's maiden name.]
With the not talking thing, I think we're supposedly able to talk psychicly now, right? Want to try that? Otherwise, I bet we can scrounge up a pencil and paper somewhere.
[He looks around the bazaar to see if there might be a shop of some kind that sells that.]