She was... smart. It wasn’t a compliment. It was a fact. Failing to recognize it would be obtuse. It was not about her acquired knowledge, but her ability to constantly absorb it, store it, and challenge it. One basic explanation on a subject simply wouldn’t do. She needed every source and every answer available to break it down into tiny segments to study individually so she could understand it as a whole. The "Grindger’. That’s what Diary Tom called it. 