"I doubt it's that simple. There has to be a goal. That construct- it looked like it was regenerating somehow?"

She nods, before detailing what she observed. "It'll be difficult even for me to hit it faster than it can regenerate."

"So there must be some trick to get it to stop. Maybe... something I can see that you can't? I have to use your eyes to find it and you have to hit it?"

"Could work - and I can hear you in there."

"All right, good. Anything else you can think of before trying again?"

Hum... "Once we've got a better rhythm down, you might be able to direct constructs through my eyes too."

"Wouldn't that be interesting."

"A major force multiplier - especially if we can get some distance with this technique, use it even without the lab..."

"Let's try getting it functional at all, first."

"One step at a time, sure." She bounces. (Time to go again?)

Time to go again.

The construct uses the same moves as last time, so it shouldn't be too hard for Gideon to last until Ellyn's able to establish a good connection. She sees that same filter-like quality drop over her vision, and Ellyn begins calling out targets to hit, which seem to be softly highlighted.

(Is this what it's like to see thanergy - ?)

As soon as she realizes the highlights represent targets, she starts anticipating Ellyn's calls. 

There are only six targets to hit but they do get progressively trickier to get to without exposing herself.

She'll take down the easiest ones before risking herself - no sense making Ellyn fret over her - but she's confident in her ability to get through this without taking excessive damage. So, if the last few require some more daring moves... 

Presumably Ellyn's increasingly-exasperated callouts mean she's winning.

She won't count her constructs until they're destroyed. 

This one- seems to be! The door pops open is the bones start to dissolve into dust.

Nice! 

Gideon steps back to observe the dissolution process. 

A small black box reveals itself on the pedestal as Ellyn hurries over from IMAGING.

She goes to investigate. (While narrating excitedly to Ellyn everything she observed about the construct, including the way it broke apart as its animating theorems ended.)

Very interesting. Watching Gideon fight through her own eyes was... something else.

In the box is... a key, thick and chunky and deep, deep red.

Gideon could see thanergy. 

That's... not how Ellyn thought the theorem was working.

"It wasn't just you seeing through my eyes, yeah - I felt dizzy when the connection started, and... Kind of a pressure? And then I could see the things you were calling out."

"I really want to play around with this one more."