They have a very firm felt memory of the Warcraft paladin trick where you throw a glowy echo of your shield at somebody and it Captain Americas between a few targets.  Or they could try to cast a bubble.

Though first they should actually see how well they can call the White from their Lantern.  The Light is almost more of a Green analogue, responding as it does to conviction.  Yet it is similarly reificatory.

If anything, then perhaps they should invite...

The woman who's used to working with the Light's complement, to see if the ~same technique of inviting things to Be, works when they instead need to Be.

She'll start simply, if she can.  Just a little curl of Light, drawn from the flame, cupped in their hand.

Trying to hold the Light is like trying to hold the concept of being born — it is eager to slip through her fingers, and easily spent on reinforcing the world as it is. But with a power for focusing each of the lights constituents, she can manage to balance a curl of light between their fingers.

She does have experience with holding on to concepts.

But she digresses.

The next step perhaps would have been 'seeing about drawing the constituent Lights from their new Lantern', but with this in her hands, and the focus-that-wasn't-quite on her arm, she finds herself thinking she could do something with that faint echo of rushing White that lingers within it.  Namely, she thinks she could instill the White's realness into that echo, to amplify it and make the focus more effective.

Now, can she actually do that?  She'll find out.

When she first channeled the White, it was with a particular passion and focus that this attempt lacks. On the other hand, she has something-like-experience doing something-like-this.

And on the gripping hand, she has already broken the rules much more flagrantly than "trying to make the light of existence make something more real". That's practically orthodox.

Because the universe she finds herself in is — let us not forget — a superhero universe: a place where it is practically written into the laws of physics that people with colorful personalities and weird glowing crystals on their wrists can do one-off things that really don't make sense if you think about them too deeply.

So yes, she absolutely can do that. But there are a lot of ways to be 'effective'; what, exactly, is she aiming to make real with the power of Life?

If one consciously asked her this question, they might get a response something like...

[Alicia Thorn's]* Prismatic Focus...

... Readily brings Light into the world.

... Is connected to [Alicia Thorn's] Lantern.

... Amplifies Light channelled through it.

... <A complicated intuitive grasp of the White Light constantly rebirthing itself as a metaphor for how to actually anchor a secondary reservoir to this device goes here.>

... Births the colors of the Emotional Spectrum from the White Light as needed.

... Anchors the other Lights to their associated reservoirs as well.

... Is hers, and no-one else's, until she can use it no longer.  (Hers to loan, perhaps, but also hers to repossess.)

 

* Here read to mean Wildcard, actually.

Of course, no-one is consciously asking her this, and this is hardly actually an act of her signature magic (all credit for the idea to the works of Doctor Jenna Katerin Moran) anyway, she wouldn't expect to get more than the top three lines here without actually Doing It Properly, but it's still a decent guideline.

Yeah, for all that she's doing this experimentation in a secret arctic lab (special mad science location: check), it's not exactly laboratory conditions.

The curl of flame sort of twists and elongates, twining itself into the prismatic focus, which itself starts to shine with normal (lowercase-L) light. There is definitely a connection between the focus and the lantern, although it is not one that is entirely clear. The flame in the lantern is sort of leaning in the direction of her arm.

She'd need Ritual Circles And Suchlike to do it properly.

Back over to you, Diana.

What - hey, no, get back here - oh, for goodness sakes.

It's a conductor.  So go conduct.

...Hey!  Weaponized double meanings are Ophelia's job!

But it could work...

They need to test the other things they were hoping they could get this focus to do.

Hey Sylvia.

...yes?

Aura shield?

...And what would that prove?

Nothing in particular about the functionality of the focus, would it.  And it would be a Bad Idea to make that dependency, but it would be interesting to see what actually happened if - well, any of us, she thinks, tried to do Aura things with White light.  If the colors matched, for instance.  But if they're testing downstepping, they need a different test...  And she's not really sure what to test how, which is why [she/Alicia Thorn] tried to hand that over to Diana again!

...Though, actually.  Maybe they should be asking Clara for help with this one.  Gods save her from open-ended questions...

...Hey.  Everyone, hold up a second.  This doesn't look - complete - yet.  It's...  It feels... all full of yearning.

She shifts her grip on the Lantern-staff, and taps the aperture of the Lantern to the central gem of the bracelet-bracer-??? that is now, hopefully, a viable Light focus.

There's a snap of connection, like static electricity discharging, and a spark of flame leaps from the lantern and through the bracer, changing colors and forms as it passes, until the far wall of the lab is cast with a prismatic rainbow.

It dies down again after a moment, but the bracer feels more complete than it did — it is a tool that connects to the lantern and brings lights into the world. And now it has demonstrated that, the potential energy bound up in the physical narrative law of 'show don't tell' fully converted into pretty light and a scattering of waste heat.

...Narrativium.

She's not entirely sure where that thought came from, but if anyone would have the immediate sense for it...  She's not the Glitch protagonist.  ...They should be careful to preserve their dramatic reveals anyway.  What the enemy doesn't know they have, the enemy can't plan against.

But that's not quite what they're doing right now, anyway.  The core goal of this session is to come out of it with a firm set of basic tools.  Not limited to but including some sort of flight aura anchor, and ideally some kind of...

Well.  Half of the bullshit of Rings is that they're made of computronium.

If she can do that, she can probably solve a lot of problems.

And the universal translator!

...That reminds her of something, actually.

She's had to figure out translation before.

And given how directly conceptual things have gotten around here, she thinks she could manage it.

Orange, grasping for knowledge.  Indigo, to seek understanding of what the Orange has grasped.

But how to actually output it...

Well, there's always White...  But that feels like using a power hammer on a screw.

A sidetrack of her thoughts is thinking about Green Lantern Ring software.  She is, if she's honest, a solidly mediocre-at-best programmer.  But Power Rings are bullshit.  And concepthaxxy.  Green-Orange, maybe...

And then there's flight.  She remembers the feeling of watching the stars, untroubled by the world.  She thinks she could bottle it.

And she's not a Jedi, to find it natural to pour her emotioms into a rock.  (Yes, okay, that's actually more of a Sith thing, but still.)  But to crystallize a single feeling, a perfect moment...  An ideal to hold to.  A reminder, a memento.  Something to hold on to.  Something she wants.  Something that feels profoundly right.

It seems a slightly off-center use of, of all things, the Star Sapphire approach to love.  But she thinks it could work.  And she has the tools to make it happen, she believes - to spin the feelings of flight into a crystal, preserved in far higher fidelity than her moment-to-moment emotional fluctuations could permit her to reliably maintain - if she's even remotely on-base about whether it can be done.