"And you didn't have criteria in mind?"

"Not this time."

"But you can pick criteria?"

"Yes."

"What criteria?"

"What sort of things they can do."

"Is there a limit to how broad or narrow you can be?"

"I don't know."

She makes a note.

"Can you only have three out at a time?"

"Yes."

"Can you pick some more random ones?"

She can.

After a few rounds of this she asks Ellie to stops and whistles low. "You have a lot of different powers."

"Yes."

"So I think the most important thing will be to test the meta part, and how certain types of powers interact with you—like whether brutes lend you their stuff, whether you get the tinker knowledge, thinker senses..."

"Okay."

"Is there anything in particular you want to start with?"

"No."

"Okay, let's start with the search process, then. What happens if you look specifically for powers that are laser-themed?"

"Do you want me to bring them out, or?"

"No, just want you to tell me what goes on in your head when you try to use that as a parameter."

"I get- like a list but more like a feeling of all the different ones that could fit and a general picture of what they do and I can look at some more closely or stop considering them."

"And with the laser-related search do you get both the laser tinker and blaster powers?"

Does she?

Yup.