Jack holds Sparks' gaze to see his reaction to that idea, and he is impossibly grateful that Sparks has a brief moment of sympathy, but breezes past it instead of asking for more details.

"I could ask Jade, if it didn't happen to him, then it's not something to be concerned about. He seems the least likely to get upset at a question like that. And if it is some side effect of regaining some of my powers from home? He was working in the lab at the same time, he'd understand what it means."

But then Sparks brings up the question of who is getting killed. "I'm thinking they're taking victims of opportunity. Sure, they're trying to kill as many of us as possible, draw in some civilians to make us look as bad as possible. But, if you were gonna try to make the civilians afraid, specifically? Some of the targets might be different. Why me? Not too many people know who I am, outside of the Heroes."

"Why not go for the public figures? The shopkeepers, like Erika or Ed? Or the Blitzball team's new star striker, Pyrrha? Or, frankly," Jack raises a hand at Sparks, himself. "The guy that just about everybody in the city knows, whether they know your name or not? You're too hard to get to."