On the second day of Hogswatch, your Seanan gave away...

I had way too much fun with this. Yes I did. It was it's own reward.

Minutia

Minutia's powers relate entirely her knowing related to small, seemingly trivial bits of information. Generally speaking, this makes Minutia either very interesting or very very boring to talk to at cocktail parties (depending on your tolerance for her suddenly expounding about the fascinating world of tea leaf grading due to a sudden influx of knowledge triggered by an idle comment someone else made in her hearing), strikes fear into the heart of her adversaries (Minutia's cover identity is, naturally, a lawyer, and her immediate grasp of every stupid exception to every point of legal authority she stumbles across is legendary in the field), and, on the rare occasion when you really, really need to know something obscure and nit-picky and nitchy and you absolutely need to know it RIGHT NOW, can really pull your bacon out of the fire. The more odd or obscure something is, the more likely Minutia is to know it, so long as it's true and, further, it has been proven to be true by some other person who is not Minutia herself (which is good, because Minutia would not make a very good scientist, being entirely too easily distracted and prone to wandering off on a tangent.)

Minutia herself is not entirely sure where these nuggets of information come from. Certainly her recollection for every piece of obscure trivia, almost useless fact, or generally irrelevant detail she's ever heard is flawless—assuming its true, at least—and she seeks out more such information out with borderline pathological dedication, but there's no apparent reason why Minutia would know that the electrical system on certain American police cruiser model variants will blow out if subjected to a high speed chase lasting more than fifteen minutes at an average speed of more than eighty miles per hour. Minutia doesn't know that either, yet, but she probably will the next time some petty crook decides to steal a police cruiser and take a hostage on a joy-ride down the Turnpike. And there might possibly be a faint smell of brimstone in the air when Minutia suddenly realizes she knows this, and her eyes might possibly, just for the slightest of moments, glow bright red.

We all know, after all, who that old saying claims is in the details.

NOTE: Minutia must be kept away from Wikipedia at all costs. We once lost contact with her for a solid seventy-two hours because she wanted to look up what actor appeared a movie she had just seen and immediately vanished into a sea of television trivia, comparisons of historical occurrence that all happened on the same calender date, and lengthy treatises on ermine farming practices in Siberia. Any computer she has access to MUST have Wikipedia and all online dictionaries blocked, and further, any legal research she does via LexisNexis or Westlaw must be supervised by her minder, currently under cover as her legal assistant.