I've heard of that... [And oddly, he doesn't look all that upset over it. Just a little interested.]

Oh -- no, we'd have broken out quickly, knowing us. [Al hides a guilty laugh.] Or been broken out. Roy wouldn't have let us stay in there, he'd find some type of loophole.

Ah, the best way to describe it is that I can manipulate physical matter through the force of my will. Usually I use it to repair and build things. But no, I can't make sand it to gold. I could make it into rock or glass, but gold is something completely different than sand.