BAAAAAMMMMMMM!
It hit the first barrier.
The barrier absorbed the projection as barriers typically do with standard elemental workings: it pushed back slightly, then held firm.
Rex adjusted the internal frequency structure of the projection and sent a second one.
This second projection successfully passed through the first barrier.
Lilith observed the spot where the first barrier had been and then shifted her gaze to the second barrier, where the projection had come to a halt.
"It didn't take it," she said. "It went through."
Rex explained, "The first barrier was different. The second barrier has an absorption pattern that varies."
"Try it out on the second."
He changed the frequency architecture again, spent two seconds on the new design, and sent a third projection. It got through the second barrier.
"W-wait—" Lilith started.
Rex was already creating the fourth.
