It's not the same kind of power, [he explains immediately.] When Tu Vishan had the worst of the illness, everyone lost their powers. Including me. And all the actual power went off, too.

This was the only stuff that still worked. I used what I could get from it to make devices to try to feed some energy back to the turtle, but it didn't work out quite the way I intended. It's all gone now. That's why I'm trying to look into the native energy sources here.