The laws of nature, of energy, the rules by which things work as I am familiar with them, at least.

[She tilts her head.]

It's changing the state of things by nothing more than the nebulous application of energy. Take what you did earlier, drying me off. I know of machines that could do it, but they would require power and an appropriate setting to accomplish the same thing that you did in an instant. Isn't that breaking the natural progression?