Editing Coil (section)

===Background===
Thomas was a part of the PRT's special forces. When the PRT received reports about [[Nilbog]], his team was sent in to deal with the situation. He was one of the only two survivors of the following incident, the other being [[Emily Piggot]].<ref name="16.x">[[Interlude 16.x]]</ref>

At some point, Thomas found out about and approached [[Cauldron]] before he bought a superpower. It was expensive, forcing him to postpone his plans and spend years gaming the market in order to pay it off.<ref name="I8xe2">Perhaps worthy of a celebration. Coil maintained his own vices. It would be unfair to expect more of himself, when he had the unique talent he did.<br><br>It had certainly been an expensive talent. Even with his ability to game the markets in a way that clairvoyants and precognitives couldn’t detect, it had taken him years to pay it off. A maddening, frustrating endeavor, when he had already been thinking of plans he wanted to set in motion, having to postpone them. And he still owed a favor, even now, up to a week’s services. He couldn’t be sure if he was powerful and secure enough to fight back if they demanded too expensive a price, or too much of his time at a point critical to his plan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/interlude-8/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.z]]</ref>