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.
And now they are a foot deep in flower petals that are supposed to dampen noise and the noise is somewhat dampened and also they're very pretty flower petals. She feels better.
Bella wakes up as the plane's landing, and once they're on the ground and stopped she gets them out of the cargo hold with all their flowers and away from the Toronto airport. Welcome to Toronto.
She might not be a witch yet. I actually think we should maybe start by looking for a fluff and see if you can get a read on the puella magi and witches in the area.
Oh, I call it with its kind of telepathy, one'll come running. Not necessarily instantly, depends on how many bodies it has around, we should find somewhere comfortable to sit.
Oh look. A fluff. Hello! it says. It looks at Lúthien. My name is Kyubey.
The Kyubey has identified Lúthien as a tier 3 potential and will wait to decide on a protocol to try to sell her on a contract until it has ascertained her relationship with this existing puella magi. The network does not remember contracting this puella magi. There are many possible explanations. This information is of potentially high value.
It hops onto Bella's knee.
Oh my gosh it's so cute! she says.
And only to Bella, uh, it thinks very oddly, it's thinking how to sell me a contract, it says the network doesn't remember contracting you and it really wants to know the explanation...
The Kyubey hops onto Lúthien's knee when she says it's cute. And flicks its tail and tilts its head.
Yeah, I've noticed when I've talked to them before that they're curious about that, but usually not urgently enough to make it impossible to get a few answers out of them. You can pet it if you want, they don't mind. Do you see anything about where they come from or how they're organized on a higher level?
It is! It is so soft! It is like petting a cloud. Made of chinchillas and owl feathers. I'm Kyubey! That is my name and what I am.
This unit is not receiving any information of the kind she's looking for; it is thinking solely about immediate situation and protocols to apply. It is an encouraging sign that the potential is petting it.
It's not thinking about either of those things, sorry. It has rules to apply to the situation, that's all...
So I was telling Lúthien here about wishes but I realized I don't know very much about how they work! Bella says on the Kyubey telepathy channel. How do you grant them?
Wishes are powered by the hope in a new magical girl's heart! Kyubey says earnestly. That is what makes her soul gem shine. You can wish for anything you desire if you will fight the witches with the power you gain.
"Anything you desire" is an overstatement; tier 3 cannot pay for anything very broad. And the hope only pays most of the upfront cost of the higher grade of allowable wish.
I'm tier 3, so apparently that's not any super powerful wishes, and they are powered by hope but that only covers most of it? I think? I've never listened to anything that thinks like it does.
Anything? she says to Kyubey. A puppy? A spaceship? A million dollars? Being Queen of England?
You could have a puppy or a spaceship or a million dollars! says Kyubey. Making her Queen of England would have unpredictable power expenditure depending on the implementation of the wish mechanism. It might involve mind controlling billions of people. Merely altering her genome to make her the rightful heir to the throne by extant succession rules would be cheaper but probably not what she had in mind or close enough for the wish granting to consider it a valid solution.
Wow. Could I go to your world and meet your family? I'd be the first person to visit another planet!
It would be very hard to fight witches on a planet where there are none, Kyubey says. This is a stock answer and does not download new network information.
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