Using this ability, Jamie and Marcela can appear to shatter themselves at will, instantaneously falling into many little pieces. At the same moment, these pieces then transform into different objects such as water droplets, buttons, bullets or knives, or different small animals such as various insects. They can coordinate their movements precisely. They can also reform themselves, the various pieces of the hive flowing together and transforming back into a body, but if they were to lose some of these pieces, they would be injured when they reform, and if they had lost too many they would die.