"If you're gonna insist on using something that's barely safe with a backup, then you gotta at least have the backup," she says sternly. This, too, is wisdom from her father: he had a lot of things to say about using cool flashy powerful stuff with obvious drawbacks and thinking you could pay on credit. He'd been very clear that it never works out in the end.

"Let's make some time to see if I can get the knack, okay? I don't gotta do it great, just enough to redirect your armor's thing. Even I can do that much."