Detective Kat Anderson of the Lost Haven Police Department gave a heavy sigh and threw her coat down, not caring where it landed. Upon coming home most evenings, Kathryn didn't notice the complete mess that her apartment had become over the years, not seeing her open case files and criminal dossiers strewn everywhere as clutter, but rather as work in progress. Tonight was not one of those nights. The sight of her untidy home was just another reminder of how many things were weighing down on her. "The Survivor," as the media had recently taken to calling the new cape in town, had opened a whole new, and very large, can of worms for her department. Believing that he might actually be the fugitive whose face had been plastered everywhere a few weeks ago, she tried to dig up more on him than the official word, but had turned up nothing. The man had simply fallen from the sky and then slipped into the shadows.
"Detective."
Anderson spun around to the source of the voice, giving an uncharacteristic gasp of terror. There, standing by her open balcony, was the man draped in darkness, with the shimmering glowing eyes. Even under his mask, Kat was getting the impression of a soft and kind face underneath, but with eyes whose cruelty had been ingrained deeply.
Before she could form a coherent sentence, the Survivor spoke again, "I wanted to thank you. You were in the helicopter when I was fighting that thing earlier, and you could've shot at both of us, but instead, you drove that monster away." He stepped forward, coming into the light more. "I'm not here to hurt anyone. In fact I try to help whenever possible," he continued. "Strange things have been happening all over the world in recent years; beings with extraordinary abilities are becoming more and more common." His glowing eyes narrowed to slits, and if it weren't for the warmth in his voice, Kat might've thought that the Survivor was angry with her. "Thing's are going to get worse before they get better, and we're going to need all the allies we can get in this new world."
Survivor nodded his head ever so slightly and turned to leave. Suddenly, Anderson's voice returned to her. "Survivor, there's a man who wants to meet with you. I don't know what it's about or..." Kat paused, trying to remember what exactly she was even telling the superpowered being before her. "His name's... uhh... Dylan Chambers."
The Survivor merely looked at the woman for a moment before turning around and heading back out the balcony, without saying a word. Chambers?
Back in the apartment, Detective Anderson was hit by a wave of nausea and staggered to her bed, where she fell down in a heap of mental exhaustion.