Dixon makes a kind of "well fuck" expression with his face. Somehow, it hasn't even occurred to him that people might be here under code name. Even though some of them are superhero. Even though one of them introduced himself as Impulse. He grimaces and takes the comic book back.

"Some of the people here know each other. Mostly the young folks, I don't know that anyone over the age of twenty-five knows each other." He takes a drag. "But the rest of us are all strangers, grabbed up by someone with real bad decision-making skills or real bad aim."