She says it like she's quoting someone, (and someone very serious at that) so perhaps it is a metaphor. A poetic motto, at the least. There's pretty much no way Blaze can explain her powers that'll sound less confusing, though. She's learned to try and just roll with the weird things she's told, herself.

"I didn't think it through," she admits. "Would have made for a hell of an entrance, though..." Oh, well. Someday. When she and Ghost figure out a really heavy-duty solution to that little overheating problem.

"Hmh. You know the worst part? I finally had the systems tuned the way I wanted them. Now I've gotta get my hands on another Cavalier model and get it in shape to give you a race." She gives him a glance and a chuckle. "That got anything to do with why you're all the way out here, come to think of it? Scouting the terrain?"