Ellen nods. "Moon Shadow's told me there are people in his world without powers who do the superhero stuff anyway," she says. "Gadget heroes, most of them- anyway, I understand what you're saying."

She nods quietly at the second part, though. "And that made it personal," she says. "Not 'it could have been anybody', but 'it was going to be me, specifically'. Which just makes it a thousand times harder to get out of your head."