Confident is good, Clare figures that might make him try harder to succeed, which should make this a cakewalk. She didn't envy his awkwardness, she had been there before. She sighed, "Yes, unless you want me to transform and try it that way."

She'd resonated both ways, as a person or as a weapon. Either way the main requirement was contact. "Otherwise you could put your hand on my shoulder or something. We have to be touching, no way around that."