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To: [Forge]
From: [Jean]
Subject: our newest charge

And it's a sign of how tired I'm getting that I didn't even notice the pun until after I'd written it.

We've got a fairly solid sample on Ms. Kikuchi's energy absorption, and I've attached the file here for your consideration. It seems to be fairly low grade - we're not having any trouble with any of the machines down here that are plugged into the power grid, and I assume you haven't noticed any really excessive drain - but it is continuous. Hook her up to the proper technical gear and I imagine you could watch her voltage rise. Assuming she didn't kill the meter. Turns out skin contact increases the drainage, and batteries, particularly small ones, go pretty fast. We had to hunt up and old mercury thermometer because she killed all of the digital ones we tried within seconds.

I hope you can come up with some way of helping her control this, because her old method is definitely not going to fly here and she's started getting desperate enough to try and sneak stuff past us.

-Jean

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To: [Jean]
From: [Forge]
Subject: Charge?

Oh my. And here I'd thought the puns departed years ago with Hank.

She seems to be storing an electrical charge like a capacitor, rather than like a battery. In which case, she would need something to control her absorption - do we have any idea of her upper limits? How does she metabolize or expunge this energy?

I'd need to get an eyes-on check of her capabilities, if you think it's safe. I'm given to understand that her English isn't the greatest, so I think I can try and dumb things down to caveman-level for her.

JHF

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To: [Forge]
From: [Jean]
Subject: Well, she certainly has great resistance to my methods...

I'd apologize about the puns but, really, there's no excuse.

And so far we haven't seen an upper limit to her absorption - certainly the rate hasn't begun to slow yet. Her body's adaptation to the extra energy, however, suggests there must be one. The energy seems to store itself in her nervous system leading to erratic discharges within the system, such as twitches, sudden brain wave switches, and occasionally heart palpitations. Quite frankly, if she stores too much her body would overload and hear heart would probably explode. Whether or not her power has an innate limit to stop that from happening or not, though, we couldn't say.

As for expelling the energy, from what her father eventually told Charles, she can project the power from her. Unfortunately, we don't know how. She's incredibly reluctant to talk about her powers, and we've not seen any such discharge, nor any resultant drop in the charge she's stored so far. We're not even sure if she can control such a discharge herself yet, although the fact that she hasn't tried to fry me yet is possibly a positive sign.

It ought to be all right for you to come down - she's had visitors and while she's not always the most congenial of companions, she doesn't bit. Yet. Her English, though, is really and truly problematic. She only knows very simple grammatical forms and her vocabulary's quite limited. Still, we'll do the best we can do.

-Jean