"Yeah, that's pretty much it. Powers can be pretty unique — Flash and I have powers that come from the same place, so he's taught me a lot of tricks about how to use it better. Even if I'm not as fast."

He visibly has an idea.

"You mentioned your powers being pretty hard to explain — are you willing to share what you can while we wait for the police? Maybe we could figure out a League member who'd be willing to show you the ropes!"

She nods lightly. Poor guy. 

"I think it might be best to wait 'til I can do a full debriefing? I don't want to have to explain everything twice over if I can avoid it, and I imagine they'll want to record it for later when the time comes." 

"Oh! Cool, yeah, that makes sense," Kid Flash agrees, just as the police pull around the corner.

"I've got to go give a statement — just hang tight, we'll be right back."

And so they leave Topaz standing around on a streetcorner for a few minutes while Captain Cold gets bundled into a cruiser and a tow-truck arrives to help right the overturned armored car.

She lets out a loose little breath, exhaling gently. For all she knows she's in super fascist evil land and everyone is just being polite to her as a psi-op, but this... looks relatively normally western and liberal and everything? She's sure that even if shifters were a thing in her world that plenty of people who freak out seeing someone sex swapping in front of them. They seem kind, and reasonable, and there's really not that much to complain about, given how eager they are to jump to accomodate her and make things work reasonably and right. She's probably not going to start a superplague from different immunity profiles, given the way that they were chill with world travellers? Still, it's... rattling, that either of those things could be the case. 

These powers are good, the sort of thing that could make a career or a fortune, even just a single one alone would be enough for that. It's a little thrilling just... thinking about the idea of doing more with what she has already. Her body feels good, too, even with just the slight change to the texture of her skin and the feeling of her hair on her scalp. 

Would it make sense to get a power to say, know more about the power? The assistant seems happy to talk about possibilities as they occur, but that doesn't really mean that she can give a real answer of what's possible. She should probably figure out a way to get around some sort of model village - some sort of research power or way to confirm things against the common sense or the outside web? 

She's not sure, and she lets the thoughts linger in her mind, idly half-meditating on her powers and her ability to keep herself safe, if the worst comes to past. 

Oh! Does she want an intuitive understanding of what powers she can have? Or maybe a sense for whether people are manipulating her?

...You know what, let's try the first. 

As the fourth spark blooms, it suddenly becomes clear what each spark represents: a power or ability just on the far end of what is possible for an unempowered human. That could mean peak human strength, speed, agility, memory, insight, and so on. Or it could mean supernatural powers that are slow, situational, limited in some way, or that only reinforce something that she can already do.

Her current powers show this pattern: her intuition about her powers is as good an intuition as she could have; her ability to tell whether someone would be upset by her appearance changing likewise. Her illusory appearance is definitely supernatural — but it's passive, limited only to one appearance and to her own body. Her regeneration is the same: faster than an unempowered human, and guiding her body in a direction it wouldn't go without assistance ... but not very much faster than an unempowered human, and mostly focused on reinforcing her body's built-in ability to change itself.

She's already seen that she can discard sparks and get new ones, but her latest spark draws her attention to an almost unnoticeable feeling of fatigue or strain: she has a volume limit (four), but she also has a throughput limit, although she's nowhere near it yet. Subject to those limits, and within the constraints of what can 'fit' in a single spark, she can do all kinds of things.

Along with this burst of understanding comes a strong impression that powers that synergize with each other are important, and that she could go farther by merging her three appearing-female-related powers.

Is there a reason why she shouldn't just throw these out and get in new ones to merge? They were kind of hastily thrown together as situational answers to problems rather than anything else, so they aren't exactly ones that were perfectly picked out to work well together.

There doesn't seem to be any intuitive reason not to, other than the fact that if she pushes all of these sparks away with nothing to replace them then she'll go back to looking like a boy.

Okay so... 

Let's get rid of the appearance change acceptability power, and get something that'll merge well.

The most obvious thing to do would be something that just boosts her body (or perhaps anyone in touch range? It probably doesn't have to be very impressive to merge up well) to speed up the process, or something that makes some sort of more... qualitative improvement. People in this world can have weird powers like the superspeed that Kid Flash has - maybe there's something that she can do with that? It might make more sense to get some sort of analysis of it done first before trying to implement any part of it, but maybe it's easier then she thinks? 

Does she get a sense of how those ideas would work? 

The intuition from her most recent spark seems to suggest that her newfound powers may be able to replicate native weird powers, but they don't work the same way. That said — sparks are more efficient when they're more ... focused. If she can break a power down into small, focused pieces, she'll be able to stretch things farther.

The sparks she has (and the source of her powers) don't seem to have more detailed ideas about how to do that in her case, though. Super-intuition about what powers she can obtain doesn't stretch to any special insight about what powers she actually wants — although it does help a bit with brainstorming.