Grrl Power #1323 - Plans within plans

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Sciona is poor at feigning ignorance, (or non-superiority) so imagine her first few lines coming across a little bored sounding, like she's just reading lines with her college roommate who is suuuuper into her drama classes, and Sciona just... can't. But not so much so that she's immediately suspicious sounding. Ellie was kind of distracted penciling in runes, so Sciona got away with it. If she keeps drooling over those spell sigil blueprints, she might finally trigger Ellie's situational awareness. 

Sciona is there as... actually I never came up with her cover name. Sangre Mago? No, that's just "blood mage" in Spanish. She's not that stupid. Valeria? No, sorry to anyone out there named Valeria, but that's straight up a bad guy's name. I think the first time I ever heard it, it was attached to some cartoon henchwoman. I can't remember what cartoon. It was some sort of G.I. Joe-level cartoon as I recall. Also it sounds too much like venereal. She wouldn't use Escorpia's name either. You can believe that any foreign supers involved in crime are tracked if there's any evidence of their activity. Actually foreign supers not involved in crime are kept tabs on as well. Officially, this isn't acknowledged, and the practice is defended with academic reasons, like "We want to know what all possible superpowers are so we can extrapolate future possibilities and also it'd be nice to know if someone has the ability specifically to teleport people out of a caved-in mine or see anything happening within twenty feet of a bowl of borscht." But obviously the intelligence agencies want to know if anyone has borscht-voyance and make adjustments to the cafeteria offerings the Joint Chiefs have access to. 

Georgina Constanza? No, wait... Isabella Mary Elizabeth Jesusina Concepcion Ferreira Marroquín. No one calls her Iza. Six Times Guy might, might earn use of her full first name at some point. If she hooks back up with Deus at some point... Well, he would call her Sciona. He might actually call her Sci-Sci (pronounced Cici) if he wants to get stabbed.  

Anyway, Sciona/Isabella is ostensibly there to audit budget... stuff for the Senator's office. Basically just getting an update on the exciting new secret project. It's probably being written into the budget as one of those underground neutron studying bunkers. Which honestly would probably be a pretty hard sell these days. Oh, I know, an underground apocalypse seed bunker.