Watching the surveillance footage, everyone tried to piece things together. They tallied the movements: at the time of the attack, everyone was under camera coverage. No one had slipped into a blind spot. Every individual had been alone, and none carried radios. Coordination? Impossible.

"Could someone's ability be telepathy?" one person suggested. "Like Professor X… using themselves as a node to link others together?"

The possibility hung in the air, but heads slowly shook.

"If it really wer