Parahuman knowledge

"I'm not one of your uniforms, I'll editorialize if I want."

"Okay," she said, raising her hands. Surrender. "But really. Do you know what to do? Master-stranger. What's the protocol?"

"Means you watch yourself. If you're shouting it, you're compromised, you don't trust yourself, so the Patrol listens to the next person in charge. Meanwhile, don't trust your eyes or brain, don't take any high-impact actions like using a gun or attacking someone. Lean on untainted sources and extend trust to them, even if it's hard. Trust solid things- walls, doors, limit the Stranger's movement, get somewhere safe and stay there."

"Shaker-stranger?"

"Watch the walls. Communicate, trust people. You're looking for traps, routes of entry, or changing environment. Focus on details. Cracks under the doors, images, text. Look for oddities and discrepancies. In an ideal world, you're communicating a bit more than just those two words."

"It's not always ideal," she said. She gave me another look. "You're too young to be ex-PRT."

"I'm into Parahuman Sciences."

"That doesn't include the protocols. Science and response protocols are very different things. Which was what started our discussion here, if you didn't catch that."

"I didn't. It includes the protocols if you're so into it that you drop off an application at the University, and you buy two textbooks for a class you probably won't get into, just to read them. I dig into anything I can get about parahumans."

- Radiation 18.8