"Right, yes." He completes his tariff-enhanced turn.

The game goes on.

Surprisingly, Wendy wins.

"You just kept buying point-scoring cards every turn and we all were more focused on our shiny combos. Also a common failure mode."

She snickers.

"After we clean up, I think Nick mentioned power science at one point?"

"I did, and I don't mind exerting myself some today, but I'm not sure what to test, really."

"If nothing else I could use some video of some of the applications. Though I'm not sure what would be most visually dramatic for the pausing one... like, a clock, but..."

"Food coloring that's just been dropped in a cup of water turned out pretty good. I can even separate the cup from the water."

"Oh, that does sound good, let me see if we have any food coloring." He hops up and ruffles Teddy's hair on the way to the kitchen.

"He can do the dishes instantly with it too."

"Yes, I can freeze things very particularly and separate them thusly. I'm a bit suspicious of its thoroughness, especially on anything with fibers."

(Aaaa hair ruffling is a tad embarrassing, if also nice. Well, the Correct Response to this is probably just to move on?)

"Seems like a questionable backlash decision but I keep being tempted to fly to change lightbulbs instead of getting out the stepladder so I can't talk."

"What's the point of having phenomenal mysterious power if you don't use it for petty, fun stuff sometimes?"

"Again I am personally really into superheroism but to each their own."