Editing Teacher (section)

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Teacher is present when the death of [[Alexandria]] is made public knowledge.<ref>“is it reassuring?” Teacher murmured.<br><br>Lung turned, realizing that Teacher was talking to him. “Why would it be?”<br><br>“You lost to her, but she’s strong enough to defeat Alexandria. Less of a wound to your ego?”<br><br>“I lost once,” Lung said. “An underhanded trick, but a loss. I’ll credit her that.”<br><br>“Mm hmm,” Teacher replied, wordlessly. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> Afterward, he has a private conversation with [[Lung]], where he offers to modify Lung's power<ref name="lung_offer">“I believe I can be useful to you,” Teacher said.<br><br>“You have nothing to give me,” Lung said. He bristled at the implication.<br><br>“You know how my power works, yes?”<br><br>“You make others smarter.”<br><br>“I turn others into lesser Thinkers, into Tinkers.”<br><br>“At the cost of their independence.”<br><br>“Yes.”<br><br>“Not something I want,” Lung said.<br><br>“You have strength, good instincts on a primal level, and all the potential in the world. Yet you’ve failed here and there. You’re ''here'', after all.”<br><br>“And so are you,” Lung said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> and reveals he has contact with [[Saint]], who is outside the Birdcage.<ref name="outside_trickster">“Good, good.” Teacher led Lung to one TV in the row. “Trickster?”<br><br>Lung arched an eyebrow. Trickster… the name rung a bell. It didn’t matter.<br><br>“Connect,” Teacher said.<br><br>Trickster reached up to the power button on the television, then began a sequence of turning it on and off, with very specific pauses. A code.<br><br>The sequence was still going on when Teacher said, “Stop. Leave it on.”<br><br>The screen showed a face, the image grainy, flickering. The face had a tattoo of a cross on it.<br><br>“Lung, meet Saint,” Teacher said.<br><br>Lung didn’t answer.<br><br>“He speaks when we give him something to say,” Teacher said. “But I may have been too eager to find a way of contacting the outside world, and I’ve irritated him. Saint explained what happened. The PRT showed him Dragon’s equipment, asked if he could commandeer it, and Saint found an opportunity to insert a discreet backdoor. He has a channel in, a way to observe, but our channel ''out'' is poor at best.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> While he rejects the offer to modify his power, Lung agrees to become a bodyguard and to keep Teacher's secrets, while Teacher continues to work on the creation of a group of parahumans under his command.<ref>“Then you agree? I should tell Saint to bury the information, maybe push events here and there, if it means we could go free?”<br><br>Lung nodded.<br><br>“And your power? If I-”<br><br>“My power will be left alone,” Lung said. “It is enough. If you want a bodyguard for a time after we’ve walked free, you will have it. I will keep your secret about this Saint for now.”<br><br>“Alas,” Teacher said. “But I’ll take the offer. By the time this comes through, I’ll have a small army of parahumans at my disposal. Some will be… under my sway, but I’d rather have your feral instincts to offset my own wit than have you as a slave.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref>

Later, during [[Khonsu]]'s attack, Teacher attends a meeting organized by [[Cauldron]]. He uses his power on [[Moord Nag]] to teach her English,<ref>“I gave you the ability to understand and speak English,” a man in the group of twelve said. “It wouldn’t cost you anything to use it.”<br><br>“''Ek sal nie jou tong gebruik nie, vullis,''” the woman replied, her voice still quiet, though it was flecked with anger, just a bit of an ''edge''.<br><br>The man sighed, “Well, I could use my power on everyone else here, but somehow I don’t think the offer would be accepted.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref> and bargains for his release from [[the Birdcage]], although he is quickly rejected.<ref>“We all have people we’d see freed,” the man who’d spoken about granting the ability to speak English said. “Let’s say two for each of us.”<br><br>“Thirty six in all,” Dragon said. “One in five of the people currently in the Birdcage, almost. Six more could potentially use the opportunity to slip out, through Stranger powers or other malfeasance. Glancing over the notes my artificial intelligences have made regarding the facility, I can guess who some of the cell block leaders would choose to release. No. I harbor concerns about the Birdcage, but this is not the answer to that.”<br><br>“It would do more harm than good,” Chevalier said. “And I say that with full knowledge of what we’re up against here, today. The last ''three'' days.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref> His attempt to pressure Cauldron by threatening to release information about the coming end of the world is immediately shut down by [[Contessa]].<ref>“I see,” Marquis said. “Unavoidable, I take it. And if I were to share the particularly valuable information that you and I both know, that you don’t want me to share with others who are present?”<br><br>“I can’t ''believe'' I’m not getting in on this,” Tattletale whispered to me.<br><br>Doctor Mother didn’t reply. She remained still, her eyes on Marquis, as the woman in the suit, who she’d called Contessa, leaned in close, whispering.<br><br>“You won’t,” the Doctor said, when Contessa had straightened and stepped back, standing guard behind the Doctor’s chair.<br><br>“I won’t?”<br><br>“You won’t. ''Teacher'' would, hearing that, but Teacher has a secret he doesn’t want divulged, and he now knows we know.”<br><br>Marquis turned, his shadow shifting, presumably as he looked at Teacher. He turned back, “Ah well. I suppose I’ll just say we’re here if you need us.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref>