Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
It occurs to me apropos of nothing that your voice carries well enough and your singing's exceptional enough that it might not be a good idea to record you in a city. I can pull over in a bit and record you there, then test the recording next time I'm run down.
So Bella pulls onto a side road and transforms (it involves doing a little dance and sparkling) and takes a video camera out of her shield and demonstrates its function to Lúthien.
The transformation is kind of amazing! The video camera is kind of amazing! She beams adoringly at Bella. Then she sings.
"Okay. I should have some visible dinge in the gem in a couple days even if I don't use much magic," says Bella, tucking the camera away and detransforming again, "so I can check it then."
Stop time, which you've seen. Store stuff in my shield and then copy it infinitely, which you've also seen. Telekinesis and energy bolts and various feats of gymnastics I could never in a million years have pulled off baseline. Various other freeform stuff - I did magic so the monitors on me in the hospital wouldn't tell anybody I was fixed up and cause them to come running, for instance.
Well, if I'm deliberately trying to run the gem down...
The car flares with purple light and lifts into the air and spins and sets itself down again. A rock flings itself skyward and Bella points at it and zaps it with more purple and it fractures into pieces.
I can't actually fly, even with teekay, but - She leaps into the air, flips, kicks off a purple diamond of light that exists only long enough to let her propel herself up, bounces higher and higher and then sort of surfs back down on a less stationary version of same. Can do that.
We can check, especially if I'm wrong about Raine being up for suggestions on how to use her wish. Just requires serious delicacy.
Yeah. If I go to Seattle this early, she's not a magical girl yet, if I go in two weeks she's a puella magi and wished for a girl in her class to notice her and it didn't work out like she hoped and she's really mopey, if I go at the end of a loop she's a witch.
If you're in a bad enough mood, yep. Self-perpetuates. It sort of ratchets down. I'm really unusually resistant to the mood-altering effects of having a dark gem.
Raine doesn't do it particularly creepily as it goes - I mean, it's not an efficient use of a wish but practically nobody manages "efficient". There's girls who go for, like, actual mind-control, "I wish for that boy to love me forever", there's a girl in Vancouver who's got this I guess you have to call him her boyfriend but eugh... Raine didn't want that, she just wanted to stand out, look shiny, have a chance. Which would have been doable with absolutely baseline magical girl powers anyway no matter what she wished for, but like I said no one manages "efficient".
My parents' marriage -
-uh.
It was the first time my mother'd ever interacted with an Elf. Elves were new and she was billions of years old and she looked at him and she fell in love and so she tried to be - cute, pretty, interesting, 'stand out, look shiny' isn't a bad word for it - and he was so enchanted he stared at her in rapture for two hundred years while the trees grew tall around them. And she was staring back equally enchanted of course but. Still.
...well, the object of Raine's affection doesn't like girls and Raine doesn't default to wishing she would, so it doesn't work like that in her case. Uh. Two hundred years? Really?
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