"What, you're telling me you can just become the absence of sound?" He guesses he sort of can, if you squint, but the joke stands.

"Perhaps it has to be liquid water? You don't become powerless when it's humid out, do you? One could argue that doesn't count as 'still water', but some nights it certainly isn't going anywhere." He thinks a moment, staring into the coffee that he is most definitely not drinking anymore.

"You know, if you were up for it, we could experiment with that, too. We'd just have to devise some safety precautions."