Carin couldn't completely hide her surprise when he mentioned the shadows. Her own people were, by all rights, elemental demigods, but they only had the four classical European elements to play with, air,water, Earth and Fire. Whisky 13 had a long-standing policy to not discount any myths or legends of yore. They'd known for years that the first 'gifted' outside her home enclave emerged in the early 90's in the Americas. Long-dormant biological keys passed down from mother to daughter were triggered in a small handful of individuals. The rest of the world followed suit only five years ago and even they'd been playing catch-up ever since.<br/><br/>"Shadows?" she asked, leaning forward with interest. Her last case involved a boy who could 'summon' creatures from books. The ability to build a living creature from nothing was a fantastic ability in and of itself, but 'shadow' energy was an entirely different matter that precious few of them knew anything about. "Did they do anything? Interact with the real world at all?" she asked. She didn't want to reveal her own abilities just yet, even though he and everyone around her 'knew' she was a parahuman just by where she was from and what she was doing there.