Editing Contessa (section)

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Contessa appears to have spared [[Taylor]]: the two bullets seemingly disabled her so that Contessa could arrange a [[Corona Pollentia#Power Removal|power removal]].<ref>Her hand touched her forehead, and she felt a pair of soft spots, each barely wider across than a dime. She ran her hand over her short hair. She didn't know how it had happened, but she could guess. Bullets to disable her, surgery to seal her power away.<br><br>Cauldron, apparently, did have a means of locking powers away. Or maybe it was Contessa, doing the work, or perhaps she'd simply been kept alive, carted to Panacea or Bonesaw, who could fix things up.<br><br>But dwelling on those things wasn't healthy, and it was pointless in the end. She'd likely never get a serious answer. She only had the two dimples or holes in her skull, the sole apparent casualty of some kind of brain surgery. - [[Interlude: End]]</ref> Contessa then appears to have exiled the unpowered Taylor with her dad to a world sealed from the multiverse.

Had disappeared, presumably into retirement.<ref name="5x II">"This would be easier if we had Fortuna," she said.<br><br>"She gave her all to get us this far. It would be asking a lot, for her to give us the remainder of her years. We'll see ourselves the rest of the way. She can live her life as she sees fit."<br><br>Jeanne privately disagreed, but she didn't make a point with it. Not with Kurt's younger selves in the car. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/07/shadow-interlude-5-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5x II]]</ref> Following an attempt to stop relying on her power Fortuna was captured and imprisoned by [[Teacher]]'s branch of [[Teacher's Cauldron|Cauldron]].<ref>[[Black 13.x]]</ref>