[ Piper frowns lightly in concentration, thinking about that. ] So it's not so much... that it's alive and making choices, but it's like... you're trying to direct a very powerful river. [ She imagines it like a dam with floodgates like the levers on pinball machines, needing to open them just enough to get the river to go through with enough power to accomplish the task... but then how do you keep the river from overflowing its boundaries once it's through? Specific intent. [ And the more power you need to get a task done, the more specific you need to be in order to keep the river from overflowing its boundaries?