"I think grace might be lower-level than flight."

"I guess that would be good too. Can I only use spells while I'm dressed up? ...Is there a good reason besides looking silly not to go around dressed up all the time, I do feel noticeably ice-themed and it's pleasant by comparison."

"Going around dressed up all the time is conspicuous and people are likely to make assumptions based on it and it can get tiring after a while. You haven't done enough magic to tell, probably, but being a magical girl is sort of like having an extra muscle that can get tired like the rest. And yes, unfortunately, you can only use spells whilst in the frilly dress."

"Assumptions like...? Also how do I even get out of it."

"Most magical girls are only transformed when they're actively magical girl-ing, so if you make a habit of walking around like that people are liable to assume that you're available to help with whatever petty problems they have. It's--you know how when you activated it felt like being filled up to the brim with magic? Just sort of--let it drain out."

"I don't know what use I'd be with random people's petty problems," she remarks. She ponders detransforming, then - does.

"Mostly being a magical girl doesn't actually make you better at dealing with peoples' problems but there's a lot of cultural baggage to being a magical girl. There's a sort of social expectation that we're--sort of like police, only less with the donuts and occasional brutality and more with the getting random cats out of trees."

"I don't think anyone wants me to ice lance their cat out of a tree."

"I think you're probably right about that!" she giggles.

"Is there any other cultural baggage attached to me now?"

"...I mean, there's sort of cultural baggage attached to everything. I don't know what it means where you're from that you're young, white, female, and nonstraight, for example, but those things do have connotations here. How universal they are varies, of course."

"...I'm not sure 'white' is a category I'd use and I'm only sort of getting what it means via language thing. Uh, bi, if that matters."

"It might or might not, depending on the context. Um, here being of overwhelmingly European descent is, well, generally socially advantageous. Oh boy, let's see if I can think of a good History Of Race Relations aimed at someone who has no context and isn't, like a kindergartener..."

"Europe is...?"

"A continent. Right. Geography lessons." She sighs. "I'm sorry I keep forgetting."

"It's okay."

"...Would it be if someone else did it?"

"Forgot that I'm an unprecedented visitor from another universe every now and then because I fluently speak their language and don't constantly perform bewilderment? Yes."

"Just checking."

"You're fine," Annie assures her.

"I want to be careful," she says, hugging her a little tighter.

Snuggle! "You know, the fact that you want to bother makes it less likely you particularly have to."

"I probably will anyway. I am not used to--having this much power over another person."

"Well, the fact that you're nervous about it puts me in a sort of awkward position of power too, I could claim to need practically anything."

"My, what a pair are we."