Anastasia Koskin was too old to become a magical girl, and that would not change if she were brought back to life.

"Damn."

She was not too old.

"She did have that bone disorder, but I guess magic can probably do something about that."

Magic can do that sort of thing, although a puella magi's particular abilities depend on the person and her wish.

"But if, say, I wished to resurrect Solvei with her bones just fine like mine are, would that work? Again, not that I'm going to."

Yes, you could heal her bones as part of the wish to bring her to life again.

"You'll wait until we're actually ready, right, not just jump us if we idly wish for things in conversation?"

Of course.

"Nice of you."

Your wish should be what you truly want to become a puella magi for.

"Just checking, but I don't somehow count as more than one girl, do I?"

You only get one wish.

"Figures."

"If I can't get omnipotence I'm going to need a long time to think."

"It would be kind of convenient if I could bring back Solvei's parents to ask them what I should get."

"I mean, if I had a dead child my answer to this question would very likely be 'my dead child, please'. As it is I'm thinking maybe I should take out a disease. Malaria kills a lot of people but it might be fixable with standard methods; cancer's more intractable. Can I make the entire human species immune to cancer forever?"

That is too big a wish for you.

"I am their dead child, kind of," she points out. "It's Solvei who wants to ask her parents what kinds of things they think she should wish for. I just agree that they're the kind of people it would be worth asking if they weren't dead."

"I'm, again, not an expert in having a dead child, but while I would be very curious to meet a clone of my dead child who did an excellent impression thereof I feel this would be lacking something."

Shift. "Fine, so she brings me back too, problem solved. Except she can't do that, but then again she also can't use her wish to resurrect some people to ask what her wish should be, because that is logically impossible."

"Just a bit, yes. Unless wishes can produce information about what people would say as part of the granting - wishing for whatever so-and-so would want you to wish?"

No, that would bend the laws of causality very badly.

Solvei becomes not-Solvei again and shrugs.