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how many other people do you know who can walk through walls? Nobody. So enjoy your amazing abilities and get confident, stupid.’
    â€˜Get confident, stupid?’
    â€˜Just a Hero joke, blur-boy. In fact, we’ve been watching you for a long time, and I can tell you right now that you’re a Hero, Entry Level, Grade Two.’
    â€˜But if you guys have been watching me for ages, how come you’re only visiting now? Why didn’t you tell me I was a Hero before this?’
    Leon smiles. ‘Standard Hero procedure. Nobody is a Hero until they decide they are a Hero.’
    â€˜So when I yelled out that I was a Hero –’
    â€˜That’s what we’d been waiting for. I was right there, in the room, blended into the ceiling, ready to follow you home and catch up for this little chat.’
    â€˜How did you know it would be tonight?’
    Leon smiles again. ‘See, you haven’t got your head around it yet. Has it ever occurred to you that there are Heroes in this city who have the power to know things before they happen?’
    I think about this. ‘Wow,’ I say at last.
    â€˜Yeah, you’ll be saying “wow” a lot over the next few weeks. It’s all good.’ Leon suddenly produces a bag from behind his back, and I’m caught between wondering what is in it and wondering if the bag is a chameleon as well.
    But Leon is busy, digging around and throwing objects onto my bed. ‘Rightio. On the assumption that you accept that you are a Hero, that you now officially realise and embrace this fact and are prepared to pledge yourself to that path –’
    Leon raises an eyebrow in my direction and I nod my head furiously. ‘I do. I am.’
    â€˜â€“ then I have here your Hero Starter Kit. An official Hero Card, declaring that you are an Entry Level Hero, and that therefore villains can only attack you with certain moves and weapons while you find your feet, again assuming you plan to use your powers for good instead of evil.’
    â€˜I do. I will,’ I say again, nodding even more. With a rush of blood, I stand and put my hand over my heart, saying: ‘I, Hazy Retina, pledge solemnly . . .’
    â€˜Kid, relax,’ says Leon. ‘I was just checking. OK, I also have a registration form for when you come up with your Hero name.’
    â€˜My Hero name?’
    â€˜What? You think I was born Chameleon? That the Southern Cross hasn’t got an alter ego? That Green Pantheress’s mother put that on the birth certificate?’
    â€˜Oh, right. When do I choose a name?’
    â€˜You have ninety days. After that, you either forfeit your Hero rights or Gotham City chooses a name for you.’
    â€˜Gotham City? You mean, as in . . .’
    â€˜Yep, that Gotham. Where the big-wig Heroes hang out. Don’t sweat it. No offence but, trust me, lower-level Heroes like you and me don’t ever have much to do with that league.’
    â€˜What else do I get?’ I think about pinching myself to check this is all real but I’m so blurry with excitement that there’s no way I could grab my skin, even if I wanted to.
    â€˜You get a Hero Beginner’s Guide handbook, with a very useful foreword by Mr Fabulous.’
    â€˜Who?’
    Leon looks up in surprise. ‘Mr Fabulous. Haven’t you read your comics? He was one of the original Heroes, way back in the 1930s. He’s an all-time Hall of Fame Hero Legend. One of the first Triple A Level Heroes. Getting old now though.’ He digs through the bag. ‘You get an instruction manual for how best to keep a secret identity, common responses to tricky questions from everyday non-Heroes, and you receive a username and password for the Hero Central website – the URL is www.herohints.com . There’s a lot of good information on there to get you going.’
    Leon moves to the window, gently opening it. ‘I think we’re done . . . Oh,