[ If Qubit notices his reaction, he doesn't slow down to mention it. He's already brightened considerably just remembering this. ]

All right. Now, there were two fellows who arrived the same day I did. Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler. They're both scientists - Hermann's an astrophysicist, Newt's a xenobiologist - from another alternate Earth, where they were instrumental in putting a stop to a decades-long extradimensional siege. That's not relevant to this, of course, just - interesting fact. Anyway.

[ Look, he's got to brag about them, even if they drive him crazy sometimes. They're good dudes, and he's missed having them around. ]

One of the powers Hermann ended up with was - I don't think we ever came up with a good short name for it, actually. But it was essentially a form of reality warping. Anything he could express mathematically, he could do.