“So you want to be aggressive instead? Suffer a fast death?”
“Yes to the first part, no to the second. Look, they’re good because they’re experienced. Jack has been doing this for years. He knows the exact balance he needs to strike, to be unpredictable enough that we can’t plan against them, but clever enough that we can’t catch them off guard.”
So… how exactly are you planning to catch them off guard with this?
“But you want to try. To catch them off guard, I mean.”
“Yeah.”
And your argument for why you should is because that’s difficult?
Well, I suppose that’s the same argument that was made for going to the moon, and that was a big success. Sign me up!
“It’s suicide. Like, what are the odds you’re going to make it through a third round? If we have a fifty-fifty chance of dying in a given confrontation, that’s, what, a one in eight chance?”
If you assume three confrontations, yes.
“You’re better at math than I am. Sure. Except we’re not going to fight them head on. Tell me, what are the limits on your abilities?”
“There really aren’t any. If it makes sense, if it’s self-sustaining, with organs and an energy supply, it’s easier on me. I don’t need to take up as much of the load with personal effort. Bigger and denser forms are more taxing, too.”
Interesting. So she can do things that make no sense, but it’s more tiring. And she can make the forms gargantuan, but again, more tiring.
She’s got an insanely strong power, it’s just a matter of being able to use it without tiring herself out immediately.
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