Would this woman PLEASE think about what bad thing actually HAPPENS if somebody knows that she is a masochist?
"We go on to the other ontologically-simple energies. I'll run through them faster, there's a fair number of those."
Water, Air, Earth. Water and Air are uninteresting, the Earth sphere does succeed in repelling Merrin's hair although it crumbles at each touch.
A sphere of deadly-looking darkness, which also cannot touch Merrin's hair.
Then comes a sphere of crackling electricity, if Merrin has anything to say about that.