I love doing research.  I have a sniveling, grotesquely ugly bad guy who has a variety of "people" on his team, including two women who are empathic sisters. Their brains can only work in unison with the other's.

Interviewer: "Sir William, we understand that the Assembly chose you, above all other agents, to defeat that enormous space monster, Chi' Pequel. You were a trash barge pilot before this time, why would they choose you? And how does it fit with your new assignment?"

In the first of the Sir William & Mac Life Without Slippers Series, The Mac, the evil ice queen, Bax, is trying out her new ship's capabilities to freeze, and her favorite part, explode.
This is a quote from Sir William as he talks to the Assembly of Fidea about Bax: