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.
I know it's sketchy, it is incredibly fucking sketchy, but she is the only potential magical girl I already know how to find who I am reliably capable of getting on friendly terms with and I don't have the time to run twelve trial loops to find you one who'll do it purely out of the goodness of her heart.
This is your world. Mine isn't about to be eaten by a monster and I guess I don't know what I'd do if it was.
If the worst thing I have to do in order to get what I need to stop the world-eating witch is spend the night with a cute girl who really really wants me I will count myself lucky. - It's also loosely possible you could just wish it yourself, if and only if you are staying here or your magic works for clearing soul gems including on recordings, it risks drawing evil alien attention to you but we might be able to play it casually enough that they don't take action before we're safely back now?
Okay.
Sounds like the thing to do is to check whether my magic clears soul gems, then. Do we need to go somewhere else to do that?
Yeah, if you start singing here the nurses'll notice and come running. We can stop on the way to Seattle.
I think I am very confused about a lot of things about your world but okay. Nurses? ...I can also heal you if you're injured?
Was in the first version of this month. I fix up when I loop back. First time around another puella magi swung by and healed me because I was a potential and the evil aliens wanted me alive to make a wish; now they feel my potential wink out and assume I die and leave me alone.
Okay. But you have to sit here anyway? Uh, with enough creativity I could probably do invisibility but it'd be - it'd take something really bad -
I don't have to sit here, I know how to get out without anyone stopping me, but it's a perfectly good place to sit as long as I don't come back with such a contaminated gem that I have to go kill a witch or steal a grief seed immediately. Nobody comes in for a couple hours as long as I magic the medical equipment not to tell them I'm awake.
It'd be really amazing. By default I wouldn't touch mood-altering magic with a ten foot pole but this is kind of an extreme situation.
It sounds like one, yeah. At home I tried using it for rescuees of Angband, different kind of extreme circumstance.
Oh! I can also sing you something that'll make you need to sleep less, if my magic works on you at all.
That'd be nice too. I can trade magic for sleep but it's really inefficient.
This is... She flips through her notebook. Loop seventy. But I don't always take the whole month.
It's not great. Sometimes I tell one of my parents and take a loop off to decompress.
She's a proper Maia, not half like me. She could probably just protect your whole realm, and if singing doesn't fix the soul gems she'd be able to find another way of doing it. She's so much faster than a person that it wouldn't take her long at all.
Well, maybe you'll do the trick. Okay, to get out of here without being seen I need to open the window, pause time, and then jump out - I can carry you - and get you to the car I steal. I'm told it's kind of disconcerting to be moved around while time is stopped, is that okay?
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