[ Tinker.

PRT classifications are variably useful. Some of them are grab bags, others overlap, all of them are artificial. Even so, there's a handful that make Krouse pay extra attention, not even so much because of what they can do, but how they tend to act.

There might be an argument made for thinker, here. There are analytical thinkers, focused on what might be called the 'hard' sciences, as much as anything is hard science in a world with powers. But thinkers, in Krouse's experience, don't tend to ramble unless there's a point. Once you get a tinker going, they're hard to stop.

He understands that better now. The way information flows, wanting to get out, be made real. ]

It sounds complicated.

[ An alternate world, where people call powers magic? It wouldn't be the strangest thing. Krouse leans forward, tilting his head further toward her, and picks up a fry to pop it into his mouth. ]

Phase transition. [ He repeats, looking slightly preoccupied in a more focused way. ] Are you talking about changing physical objects with magic, or magic that changes state when you use it?

[ Flickers of insight, like sparks. Not real tinkering, but close enough, in aggregate. ]