Well, it's not like this body is entirely physical anyway.

[On the one hand, she shouldn't be telling all her secrets to an alien.....on the other hand, it means a chance to lecture...]

A weapon is a mental projection that can be cast much farther away than just arm's length, though of course it weakens the farther away it gets, and eventually will just disappear, though, aheh, naturally I can just project another one.