ZzzzzzaaAAP!

She tears back into the house. 

"VERONICA I CAN DO LIGHTNING IT'S SO COOL!"

"That's exciting!" says Veronica. "Also an outdoor magic, but exciting!"

"I wanna hit swarms with lightning!"

"You'll have to get a bit older for that but it's a fine thing to do with yourself once you are."

"Aww. How old?"

"They'll let you ride along with an emergency squad once you're - fourteen or fifteen, I forget which."

"But that's almost twice as old as I am!"

"Yes, I know. But you've got lots to do between now and then, you'll be in school and working on your outfit and making friends and flying and all kinds of things, it'll fly right by and then one day you'll have the right birthday before you know it."

"Okaaaaay. I guess I want lots more lightning first."

"And if you have rain and lightning, you can probably get a third thing with enough work!"

"Oooh. I bet it's also weather in some way."

"It probably is, yep!"

"I'm gonna work on my outfit some more."

"Good idea."

She goes and studies the dictionary some more. 

After a minute, she adds gold glitter to her dress. 

This helps a little bit.

She replaces the gold flowers and butterflies on her nails with gold glitter. 

Slightly better.

She adds gold glitter to the star on her cheek. 

That helps too.

She puts purple ribbons with gold sparkles through her hair. 

This is a little worse, though exactly why is anybody's guess.

Aww. She takes the ribbons out. What if she puts on a bracelet of alternating gold and purple beads?

This is a quite noticeable jump!