Her explanation reminds him so much of Cylon tactics, that for a moment he looks a little surprised. What were their plans, really, except breaking down the players to their component model personality and then shifting them around to the best perceivable outcome?

Maybe the Ones had a bag of runes lying around somewhere. They were by far the best at playing everyone else like a fiddle.

It's kind of nice to here that he'd be in charge of a planning a ruthless approach to battle. It's all hypothetical, of course. He wouldn't be opposed to lending Hermione a hand, but he barely knows Kirk. He's only met the one with beard, anyway.

"I can see why you like this school of magic," he says with a smile smile. He looks over the floating runes. "Can you look up Adia's number?"