"Something something fonons." I think so.
It is. And I certainly would be, but they appear to suffuse the recycled air in this place. [ an indulgent smile. lightly sweeping away any implication of more than competence on his part. ] Were it not so, I'm afraid I would be quite powerless. The density and quality of available fonons have a rather large impact on the potency of resultant artes.
Which, more or less, is the theory behind Fonic Sight. [ a gesture at his face ] The eyes contain the largest fon slot in the body, and, by widening that slot, the raw power a fonist has available to him or her is necessarily increased.