Well, what I intended was that Alysis had tied the existence of the lightning to the existence of her arms, so that they would mimic each other to a certain extent, allowing her to control the movement of the lighting through the movements of her arms. Its something Archmage!Alysis could have pulled off, but now that you mention it, Student!Alysis probably couldn't. I think I'm having trouble with powering her down properly.

I think I'm just going to erase the ground thing entirely. The more I think about in an awake state, the less I think it would actually work.