Sorry about last Saturday, but I was attending a son's college graduation.  I'll try to make the extra one up sometime soon.

This doesn't mean Beastbeauty is helpless.  But the necklace helped regulate her power, served as a focus for her power, and provided her bird-form with the anti-gravity needed to make a relatively large animal fly.

Doubtless Flickerflame told her that Vigilant was in town after she called HIM. After all, as far as she knew, Flickerflame was the only other Next Level member in the same city, so it would be natural she would call him first.

That symbol below Beastbeauty's image in the second panel is a "N" and an "L" connected vertically, the Next Level's symbol.