"I'm not sure it is pointless" Barry says, thinking hard. If the world is already already being changed by passive thoughts, then it should be easy to actively create something.

"We don't know which way to move in. Or, at least, we didn't." He pulls the Starfleet tricorder he's imagined out from behind his back, and shows it off to Locus before flipping it open.

"If I did this right," he explains as he clicks away at the buttons, "it should detect life signs and lead us to them. Got it. Life signs are fairly spread out, but we should find somebody if we head out...thataway."