"I won't shock you for no reason, Doctor Lecter," she says, watching him lean back. "It does take effort and conscious thought under normal circumstances."

She shrugs. "In a manner of speaking. I control the switch, and I can control the form the energy takes--sometimes it's electrical output, sometimes it's speed." Mostly, if she can manage, it's slowly bleeding out into the surroundings. That's harder to reliably do.