"Don't dare tell you anything the fluffs could find out in case but I can fix it but I need to know what's going on. When did you witch, where were you January 25 - who are all these other girls -"

"I was - I thought you die," she says. "I used up the last of my magic and - didn't die."

"She was trying to save my life and instead she... caught me. And kept me. Same with all these people," says the girl currently hugging the ex-witch like her life depends on it. "Witches, they feed on human suffering, right, well, turns out making people suffer is Cass's calling in life, she just kept picking people up and didn't do a whole lot of putting them down. I - hoped someday I'd figure out how to get free and kill her - but she kept getting more powerful - and then you got there first. Thank you."

"You were in there and weren't a witch -? January 25, it's important, where were you - or any time between then and now, it's February 26 now -"

"She can - she could - pull the corruption right out of your gem and eat it," she says. "Cass? Did you look at any calendars?"

"Not so much. And no maps, either. We started in Toronto, but fucked if I know where we even are right now."

"Vancouver. When were you last definitely in Toronto, when did you witch."

"I don't know!"

"Mid-January at the earliest," says the other girl. "We weren't huge on keeping track of time, though."

"Can you think of anything that might have been on the news around then, or -" She looks around at the other girls. "Do any of you remember when you were picked up and where."

Most of the other girls are too busy crying or whimpering in terror to have any input, but one of them pipes up.

"I - I think - it was late January, maybe the twenty-eighth? And I was in Newmarket," she says. "Just north of Toronto."

Bella scribbles that down, keeping a nervous eye out for fluffs. - She pulls out the less heavy-duty version of the song and plays that in case it jogs any memories.

This results in a lot of shellshocked witch victims becoming very emotionally confused, and several more tentative confirmations of Cass's trajectory: wandering west along the US-Canada border, starting out small yet terrifying and getting bigger and more terrifying as she went.

Bella writes down every data point she can get -

- and that's a fluff, no, more of them, that's six fluffs approaching -

"- thank you all -"

And reset.

Aaaah.

Okay.

...well?

Not sure if I can catch her before she witches but I want to find out. Let's go stow away onto an airplane, shall we?

Airplane? And yeah, let's.

Like a car but flying and we'll have to be in the cargo hold, you'll hate it, but it'll get us to Toronto and we can see if we're in time to stop her before she witches.

Car theft.

Or unwitch her right away, at least - or are you figuring if we do that the fluffs will notice and we'll have to reset?

I think they'll notice. I can't guarantee it since in one case they had an opportunity to have clues and be watching and in the other they had reason to be paying attention to that particular witch, but I do think they will. If we can't catch her not-witched-yet this loop should be for mindreading fluffs and that means not doing anything too suspicious.

Okay. 

...we could at least kill her? So she doesn't torture all those people a whole month? I'm not quite sure that's not a bad thing even if we loop it out.

It's very bad. Unfortunately what she does when she gets somebody is apparently not kill them, it's keep them.

So you can't risk it.

I could maybe risk it if you're convinced you could stand by to suicide-reset if I didn't come out, but it's still not ideal.

I can do that. But yeah, not ideal.