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Torrent was progressing well, apparently.  That's what the system told her, and it made her perk up a little even as Ash came back with sounds that were hellish to imagine.

But she couldn't focus on that.

Repeating the process, Torrent drew in the light until she felt as full as she could from it.  She repeated the process with condensing the light inside her, moving it, preparing to release the controlled, high pressure stream.

But this time she waited.  She didn't need brightness, she needed something that was that [i]and[/i] pain.  So she added heat, using the same power that she drew from to make fire to mix into the light, and [i]then[/i] she released the stream and used her magic analysis on the result again.