"It'd be an added power-boost to Xander's method," Nita says, holding up the towel so it's more in the middle of their little group.

"That is, I'd also be working to persuade the materials to be more resistant. To use an anthropomorphism, it'd be like making them more self-confident. More solid, more real, to have an easier time withstanding what could otherwise destroy it."

This combination could actually work something approaching naturally, in other words.

Looking to Ifrit, she asks, "How does that sound?"