[indent]It was right about then that a figure passed along the line of windows leading to the door, a tray of coffee, mugs, various kinds of sugar, and a few flavors of creamer held delicately in hand. The guy, presumably Jason, glanced in as he walked by, and did a double take as he caught the sight of the bugs warming toward the table and into King Stag's hand. He stopped dead in his tracks. Stood there a moment, mouthing something that looked like a prayer, then promptly wobbled a bit before going straight down to the ground, tray and all.

Lilian watched the sight of the employee fainting, blinking a few times after the fact, then looked back to King Stag as though nothing had happened. Unlike, well, others, Li was completely unfazed by the sight of the bugs, and even less affected by the knowledge that bugs existed even on the tenth floor of a steel and concrete office building. He did, after all, live in a shitty apartment with black mold behind the fridge and silverfish in the shower-- problems he had reported to the super before escalating it directly to the landlady directly, but had received no response beyond "I'll see to it." --The point was, Li was familiar with the realities of life, and wasn't all that taken aback by King Stag's display. Impressed? Maybe. A little. Thrown off? Not in the slightest.

[color=ff664d]"King Stag presents a handful of beetles gathered from beneath his chitin as well as the corners of the room while giving this answer; an employee bringing coffee fainted outside the room at the sight of the scene,"[/color] he noted casually for the recording device before recentering his focus to ask a follow-up question, taking a natural approach by commenting first on the hero's response, [color=ff664d]"That's fairly noble of you,"[/color] he said, looking up for only a moment to catch Elijah's gaze, before quickly diverting to the handful of bugs-- as if that was better? --and clearing his throat before he continued, [color=ff664d]"but you say it was through this apparent...[i]relationship[/i] you have with arthropods in general that you were able to be a hero to begin with. That through them, for the first time in your life, you could do something about the quote-unquote evil in the world-- Am I right, then, to assume that, rather than you originally had the power to call upon these entities, they granted you with the powers you have today?"[/color] It wasn't a question he'd had on his list. It wasn't a question he had ever thought to ask. Until then. Before that moment, Lilian, like most, assumed that King Stag was simply a Caste-C Metahuman. This though...this changed things, and Li's mind was working faster than he could even keep up anyone. There were a million new questions he just had to ask. Just dump them all out in an endless stream. It was hard stopping at just the one, but if he was going to keep this a proper interview and not devolve into a frantic fanboy, he had to keep his composure. Especially with the PR there.[/indent]