"Likely not, but it could come up in the future, and it's relevant information that you should be aware of."

"Yes."

"I also can't move planets. Or things the size of Luna. Smaller moons I can, though, so, uh. I can actually wreck planets pretty handily, if I can get something big enough to throw. Not that that'll ever come up."

"Hm. I hope it doesn't. Can you move half of one thing in one direction and the other half in another?"

"Yes. Also crush things, or - well, I can sort of move a planet if I move part of the planet? Except that would break it horribly, and uh. Yeah."

"Is that a volume limit or a mass limit or an area limit?"

"Volume."

"Could you not move a thin shell of the matter surrounding a planet in order to evenly apply the acceleration and not destroy it?"

"I'm highly leery of being able to reach the entire shell accurately, and the planet would likely be crushed against the shell even if I were moving it very gently. Plus I move things, I don't reinforce them, just because I can move something doesn't mean moving it there won't cause it to break."

He nods again. "That's a very useful power you have anyway."

"Oh, agreed. I'm quite happy with it."

"Can you affect multiple targets simultaneously?"

"Yes."

"Then the most useful strategy as a plan A seems to try to catch them unaware and detach their heads from their torsos without giving them time to respawn the others."

"I was planning to fling them up into space and make them explode at the same time," she says, serenely. "No reason not to be excessively thorough."

"No reason not to do both. Flinging them up into space might give them time to react."

"Exactly! And there's no reason to leave them alive."

He sighs. "Unfortunately there is not."

"It's kind of a pity, but somehow I don't think showing up and asking to talk will work."

"It hasn't so far, and they've proven too dangerous even for the Birdcage."

"I wish more of them were cartoonishly evil. At least in cartoons they make obvious mistakes we could exploit."

"Ha! Point."