This shield bubble — and even her environmental shield — isn't just protecting her.

She never was much good at things for her own sake.

No, she was always better at doing things for others.

Every single person she meets is fascinating. They all count for her.

That's why she has this ring.

And she doesn't live in this body alone.

She shares it with the other pieces of her heart.

She speaks —almost whispers — as she recreates the bubble shield.

"My shield protects our love."

That's better!

There's an extra something she can feel too - she's pretty sure she could make it crystalline, making it more solid, if perhaps less flexible if she wanted to. 

Maya beams at her, hugging her firmly in mindspace. <That was beautiful, Sable.>

Neo just glomps her, beaming.

Eeee! <Thanks, girls.>

Okay. She'd love to try that crystalline shield.

And up! The shield is firm, strong, properly glassy rather then the virtual 'film' of translucent purple energy. Facets abound in it, and she can tell that it's a little more awkward to reshape and dissipate, if she wants to, even if it's more solid.

Oh it's pretty!

It's so pretty! Almost a shame to take it back down. She can feel a sort of sense for how to work with it, so after a few moments more admiring it, she dismisses it.

It dissipates, taking perhaps five seconds to flake away into motes of light rather then the instant fanfareless vanish of the more conventional constructs.

Even the way it dissipates is prettier.

Well, the next big thing to try is flight. She'll zip around for a few minutes (eee she can fly!), before trying out FTL, zooming out past the asteroid belt to enjoy an up-close look at Saturn with her girls.

FTL is deliberate - a few seconds of gathering energy, a flash of light, and a surge of colors flooding her vision before she comes out the other side, right in place to admire the rings.

Oh, this is lovely.

This is so gorgeous! Sable's the best.~

<Amazing,> Maya says, her mental voice reverent. <Thank you for sharing this with us, love.>

She wraps her girls up in a mental hug and sighs happily, savoring the view and their company.

After several minutes of just enjoying it, Sable decides it's time to test her abilities a little more. She preps another burst of FTL, this one to the asteroid belt.

And vip!

Asteroid belts are diffuser then they look in pictures, but the ring appears to have selected a space with a few several kiloton asteroids flying past at several kilometers a second. 

She surveys the asteroids with interest for a few moments before starting.

Ooh. She wonders if Sable's going to break things!

<She's certainly going to try, sweetheart.>

What if one of these asteroids veered toward an inhabited planet? Countless individual, unique, precious lives could end from one of these. She pictures those lives, each their own story, and levels her ring at the nearest asteroid to blast it as hard as she can.

A dozens of meters wide torrent of violet light spills out and punctures it, crushing through stone like butter, chips of rock fly everywhere as it tumbles away, cracks lacing throughout the entire structure of the rock.

Well, she certainly can't let it get away and make a mess, can she? She fires a wider blast to shred this thing down to shards that will burn up in the atmosphere, and not meaningfully divert any other asteroids they impact, keeping those lovely lives safe.

There's a gentle tug to your attention as you can feel the motivation behind it straining, charging streaming out aggressively to thoroughly obliterate the asteroid. 

When the flash turns down, the shards aren't quite as small as you hoped, with a handful of dense lumps of stone and metallic deposits flying out of the explosion.