"But then how does it work for you?"
Say I put out a few output streams, they look like normal, thin lines of light. Then I mismatch the frequencies — and now there's a cutting edge in the air about here. It's not just a construct, it's a glowing blade of flowing, shearing energy"
"...That's what you were doing in the garden," Raizen said slowly. "With the weeds."
"That's a really, really small version of it, yes. I was even running two, at one point. They're not too hard. They're the size of a finger and they only have to cut something with no bones in it." She waved that off too, which he was beginning to find kind of offensive. "The blades aren't the interesting part. The interesting part is that they can fuse with other output streams. That's the whole point — if it's placed rather than held, you can combine it with others without even paying attention. You could run a shield the entire time you're doing something else. It just sits there."
