"Yes, in a very basic sense." He breathed a sigh and looked thoughtful for a moment before reaching out, clearing space at the center of their table. "Allow me to demonstrate in a way that may make more sense to the visual learner." It had always worked with Thor. Maybe it would here as well.

He holds out his right hand, palm up, on the table, and in his palm manifests a floating illusionary projection of a semi-opaque glass orb. "A light sphere, or bulb as some call it, requires energy to illuminate. As you can see, currently, it is dull." And then he extends his left hand, above which appears in a small and rather simple model of a city, complete with tiny buildings, a central tower rather like the one in which they live, and a park. Beneath the streets of that city, a bundle of rotating and interlocking gears turns, their motion shifting sections of the model city in his hand. "This is where we are, hypothetically speaking," and as he explains, a shimmering thread of green energy drapes between the orb in his right hand at the model in his left, pulsing as the miniature city shifts, and with each pulls, a dull glow in the connected sphere grows brighter. "And the orb here is whatever the city is supposedly powering. Is it more clear now?"