Shard connection

Another train of thought to go down, as I mulled over my newfound connection to my agent, to my Wretch. I could remember papers, remember areas being explored. This time, I was thinking less about what contributed to those connections, and more about what happened when the connection manifested.

Added control over powers. Added nuance in power, sometimes in the form of new techniques and moves. More power, obviously. More range. Those were the basics. Powers that had drawbacks could find those drawbacks relaxed if the user regularly practiced with their power, meditated, put their powers to use in the field, which might be conflated with being in the midst of more conflict.

God, what had it been? I wracked my brain to remember one file. A passing remark by a cape with control over sound, who had pumped sound into a Tinker's engine. They'd evidenced a good sense of what sounds would be most effective- it had been a city-wide whining sound that was supposed to target people with criminal intentions only, and the sound-manipulator had known what sound was best. They had noted in their paperwork that they didn't think they'd have been able to do that the year prior.

Blessed paperwork, the little details that emerged.

That was awareness. It might suggest a grasp of the subject matters adjacent to the powers. A fire manipulator getting a sense of flames and how they burned, because that was the sort of thing their agent paid a lot of attention to.

And… of course, courtesy of a bit of paperwork from Golem, who stood next to Rain, while Cuff talked to Rain about Girls… there was another dimension of parahuman-agent growth related to that. Because another thing adjacent to all powers was… powers.

Was my intuition augmented by my closer connection to the Wretch, that radiant, fragile, multi-limbed spectre I'd glimpsed last night? Did it give me a greater sense of parahumans, threats, and where threats lay?

- Sundown 17.8