Experimentation

No evil genius ever does anything on the fly. At least, none of them admit to it. Daniel was no different. He went back to the subway and began experimenting on different people in the enclosed space, drawing up a small chart of what each aspect of the strands meant.

The color determined what the individual aspect did, while the length determined how strongly the aspect influenced the person it connected to. The one he plucked from the nun, for example, was her knowledge of theatrical performances she was a part of. Not much use to him, but it was fun watching the woman he attached it to become dressed in a fairly regal ballroom gown.

So green was physical aspects and blue was objective knowledge... what would happen if he plucked a red one off of the young man next to him? Daniel didn’t hold back and pulled a small maroon strand off of him.