[Fortescue thinks for a moment. It's hard to say which it is, as they're still as trapped in the Cape as ever.]

Nothing aside from the power is malfunctioning. So it was either a very localized problem, on our end, or deliberate. As far as I can tell.

[She's played this game before. Captured, and then toyed with. But it was a much less fantastical experience before. There was more beating involved, and magical suppression. The Cape is a much happier experience, as it comes with less sanctimonious speeches about what she is. And there's less death here. That, too, is a good thing, though it's been traded with... disappearances.

Who can say what happens to those who disappear and don't come back?]