[She pauses here, again to make certain that this filter is not completely private. It gives her time to think.]

That's a lot to try and understand.

[A long pause here. The tapping of a pen.]

But it seems to me like that power exists to deal with a specific need. That the power exists because there's a certain something it needs to fight. What about powers that exist independently of that sort of thing, but still give someone the ability to take over someone else?