Maybe what was needed was a demonstration. "I'm attuned to the element, and so-"

She removed a plate from one of her armguards, the one she hadn't embedded her wing-gem into, and held it palm-up and took it in her bending grip. The polished metal rose. Kuvira gestured, and with a faint noise it changed shape into a long daggerlike form. Gestured another way, and it became a ball. Even Suyin struggled to bend one-handed in this way.