"Put your hoodie back up, and let's go," Six ordered. He glanced at the people around them. "Excuse us."

The crowd took that as their cue to part enough for Six to lead the turtle Meta away. There were perks to being the sixth most dangerous man on his version of Earth: one of which being the ability to turn up the "try me and I will end your entire existence" so even those who were typically deaf to such signals thought twice.

He said lowly, just loud enough for the Meta to hear without it carrying to anyone else, "You need to be more careful in Central. A lot of anti-Meta sentiment around here. Excelsior's not much better right now."