Professor Dark aka Paragon
"Alright, I can accept your secrecy - but you have to accept that, even without directly attempting to do so, I will inevitably discover what your powers are. But perhaps when we are more used to one another you will mind that less".
"I do have a task for you now, if you're willing. I will explain what it is and why it's important".
"I need to find out what the chemical signature of the bombs used in the building explosion was. Do you have - ah, wait - I'll presume you don't have a scientific background".
"All manufactured explosives are produced with a chemical fingerprint. It allows us to say which company produced it and then with some effort we can usually trace back the sales batch. I wouldn't rule out that the bombs had explosives from a number of different sources, or that they were stolen".
"If we find we're dealing with manufactured explosives then we have a lead we can pursue".
"What would be even more interesting is if there isn't a manufactured chemical signature. That would tell us even more. It takes a long time to make that much explosive yourself - unless the individual can simply magic explosives out of thin air. The explosion was only 36 hours after the mutation - making your own explosive, planning and carrying out that plan in 36 hours is just about impossible. Which would mean the explosion was not the work of... for want of a better phrase, one of us. Or at the very minimum it would have to one of us who was planning to blow up a large building before the early hours of Saturday morning".
"If you could obtain a sample lifted by forensics, that would suffice, but might be difficult. The site itself will be sealed for days, if not weeks, and you appreciate I am rather too public to be caught in the act of lifting the sample myself. The police will be performing this examination already - as we speak. They'll be doing all the leg work, if you like, I just need to know what they know".
"What do you say, Crow?"