Slade would give a sharp nod as he once again fell in step with Jinny. This time he was focusing his attention more on the school around him. As his niece had a point, it all did seem like a normal school so far. If it wasn’t for meeting the headmistress and that unnamed student from earlier, he would be hard pressed to say it was anything other than a simple school.

But since he was more focused on it now, he could see the subtle hints that it wasn’t the case. The Olympic pool for example had a hidden hatch at the bottom of it that he could see. The gun range was another hint as it wasn’t exactly the most normal, but it could also likely double as an archery range so most people wouldn’t think twice most likely.

Other things were smaller, there was far more security then normal for one, dozens of cameras all expertly hidden. For two there was a few hidden passages, at least that was what Slade assumed them to be. He only noticed one get used, and even that was only barely. A pair of students walked into a small wooded copse for a moment and next chance that Slade could see the area they were gone.

Where these passage lead, he didn’t know, but he was curious.

Finally, they would arrive at the workshop, and it was an impressive looking room. At least at first glance. It was a very well supplied and stocked workshop, that wasn’t in question. It was more that it was all so... pedestrian in Slade’s opinion. Everything here was commercially available. While Slade was pondering that, Jinny would go on to talk to the only other person in the room.

 The boy in question was quick to respond “What do you want?” He would ask, with an irritated growl not even looking up from what it was he was working on. “I’m a little bit busy if you couldn’t tell. And if you can’t tell, maybe you want to go get your eyes examined” He was quick to tack on. Even as he remained focused on his work.

The work in question seemed simple enough to gather at a glance. He had a rather sophisticated looking harness spread out in the workshop bench in front of him. It was the fact that the components for the harness took up the entirety of the table that would be the first sticking point. To make things worse, the parts that were open, which was most of them at this point, revealed a vast interconnected network of wires and circuit boards that the boy was currently in to process of either replacing some of the wires, with seemingly identical ones. Or he was resoldering some of the connection points, firming up some connections or simply rerouting them. That he was doing so by hand was a feat on to its own, but none of this stuff looked in any way familiar.

Parts of it could be gathered through context, actuators for what looked to be robotic limbs, ports for power cells and the like. But there was also what looked to be a jet pack, as well as some type of energy cannon laid out as well, but the inner workings of those portions just didn't seem to make sense. Like how all of this was supposed to fit on one harness, for one, especially one sized for the smaller than normal kid as well.