"Yeah," said Jake.  "It talks and stuff."

"That's certainly...curious," your mother said.

"Yeah," said Jake.  "We're going to see if we can get security footage of the fire.  Something weird went down there."

He vaguely wondered, in retrospect, if the Tome was trustworthy... but it didn't seem to be capable of movement.  If something went weird, anyway, they'd figure it out.

"I suppose that would mean the new was right about there being an arsonist then," your mother said.

"Yeah, the book told us that there were people with fire powers there, or something like that," said Jake.  "We're trying to find out more about them."

"I'm guessing nothing came up then?" your mom asked.

"Not yet, anyway," said Jake.  "We don't know about any local fire villains who have been active before now."

"There are always more of them," Evila said. "People always want powers."

"Yeah, that makes sense," said Jake.  "Not as common to have a group all with one power, though."

"It could always be a power broker," your mother said. "Maybe they can't grant anything else."

"Could be," said Jake.  "Man, that could be rough.  If it's someone who can give out powers temporarily, that's a hell of a thing to hold over someone."

"It is," your mother said. "I caught your sister trying to give neighbourhood cats powers."

"She's branching out," said Jake.  "I'm impressed!  But the potential for trouble would be pretty bad..."

"Yes. I had to put my foot down," your mother said. "But I'm sure you'd be able to find a rogue one."

"I hope so," said Jake.  "I need more if I'm going to track them by smell or something."

"This is the sort of thing that low level villains usually go into," your mother said.

"Right," said Jake.  "So we're looking for low-level plans.  With fire powers, so... extortion, maybe.  Or murder plots.  Fire powers aren't great for robbing banks; you might burn the money up."

"That's certainly a possibility, but I did mean those that go into being power brokers," your mom said.

"So what do you think I should be looking for?" asked Jake.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he was advertising his services in some way," your mom said.

"A point," said Jake.  "We'll have to see what we can track down, there.  Maybe poke around on the Dark Web or something.  Still need to do something about the Firebugs, though."

"Good luck then," your mom said.

"Thanks," said Jake.  He went to go fire up a TOR browser on his computer, and go trawling through the sewers of the darkweb.

You found a few different websites offering superpowers. There's exactly two of them though that has offers in San Petro.

Interesting... one or both might be fake, but he took a closer look.