"That's right. My race are the preservers of Cosmic Order in the universe. We remain outside politics, outside war... outside help. It's why we became known as Outsiders. I spent what would be considered Terran millennia watching, observing, bearing witness to events in galaxies near and far...

And then I saw something strange on Earth. I saw individuals who would put themselves at risk in order to save those who should be culled. I saw Heroes who protected innocent people, who stopped those who would destroy your planet, who bonded together to stand for something greater than themselves. Some of them were not even proper Earthlings, but they still risked life and limb for their sense of justice, and it lit a fire inside of me. A fire that I had thought long extinguished."

She spoke with warmth and fondness about the heroes who had inspired her. She didn't name anyone but it was clear that the original Valor Corps had been among them, at least up to a certain point.

But at that moment, warmth turned to shock and a little fear. She had been too wrapped up in her story to catch it before. Now Izzy looked at her teammate icily.

"But I've never spoken about my race before, so Rafael, how did you know that?"