"-And then use the notice-me-not to make it seem human?"

"Yeah! Might work."

"Let's try it out."

"Hmmm..."

Out of the sight of school, then: "Okay, I've never made a minion before, but ones I've seen are usually on theme... So cat girls?"

"I guess, if we want to start off human-ish."

"The better to hold a pen, though I suppose it would be funny to send in cats and just float the pencils around."

"That might be more trouble than it's worth."

"Yeah. It'd probably require a lot more attention, too, and that'd lose us the multitasking advantage..."

"Yeah. So catgirls."

She can create and control lightning, and lightning is energy is matter. And she's a cat and a catgirl is partially a cat, so it's almost like just making a copy of herself. Which is under her control.

An exact copy of herself as a lightning cat seems fairly doable - though the lightning doesn't really want to be tamed into one shape.

Ruby makes a tiger of smoke and fire and them stares at it intently for a bit.

It doesn't have to stay in one exact shape, the outline it flickers around just needs to be closer to that than this.

She can make paths the majority of it prefers to follow, at least.

Bipedal and hands are what she's going for.

That works slowly, as long as she keeps some monstrous features. Her magic doesn't want to be cute.

Retractable claws, knees that go backwards, a distinctly feline aspect to the face...

That seems to add up to something the magic will accept.

Ha, good.

And does it respond to commands?

...Sort of? She can make it do stuff but once she stops actively making it do stuff it stops taking actions, and it dissolves if she stops paying attention.

Mrh.

It's made of lightning. It should be sharp and quick and clever and looped back in on itself so it doesn't get grounded, it just keeps sparking.

That seems to help keep it from dissolving when she gets distracted.

Okay. Next step is seeing if she can extend her senses over to the electro-golem enough to do magic through it.

It's really hard to say if she's doing magic through herself or through the electro-golem, given her range overlaps almost entirely with its. She seems to still be sensing things in relation to her own body, though.

She directs it to walk further away.

She can do that - and even keep a hold of it once it's out of her sight. Keeping it together as it leaves her ability to sense electricity is harder, though.