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.
Discontinuity. Stolen car driven to Bella's house. Note left on the table. Car returned to its original location.
Fluff flagged down telepathically.
Offer delivered with all flourishes of information Bella shouldn't have any way of knowing, rapid-fire.
Lovely.
The transaction is nervewracking. Bella doesn't even produce the recording out of her shield until the fluff has gone up to the spaceship (relocated from Japan; they have to wait half an hour) to get the wish granting mechanism. She hands the recording over. It hands the wish granting mechanism over.
- and then it leaves.
And Bella slumps against the car she has so often stolen, taking deep breaths.
This is the real wish-granter, I can - I can tell - you mean check at the psychiatric clinics -? And I need to get the recording online -
Yeah.
She borrows the car again to get to a library for internet access, has to spend a while on the phone with a billing department to get a website live ASAP, sinks cash into it, nips over to a bank account to wire them money, slaps the song up for anyone to download. The fluffs promised to make it known to the intended audience. She telepaths the nearest one, still just in range, to tell it where the song can be found and double-check that it will distribute it to puella magi without internet access.
Probably. Maybe worth special attention to Toronto to see if we can find the one who gets world-eating sooner than later. And then we have to re-anchor the time loop so I have the wish granting mechanism - magic stuff won't go in my shield, no grief seeds no soul gems no wish granter - and don't just wind up in the hospital without the trade handled.
The plane will appreciate it.
Bella puts the car back. She goes and gets her own car from school - someone who recognizes her shouts; she ignores him - and drives to the airport.
If it does we can re-run, but I do want to get this one right.
Plane. You know, I originally thought I'd try to do my last go on the month without committing any crimes but it just takes too long to get a plane ticket and this time any time I lose I can't just write off.
Lots. Operating planes is expensive, and we didn't pay to get on; it's also a lot of people all trapped up in the sky and if somebody has bad intentions then that's a bad place to be stuck with them, so there's some screening procedures.
I keep thinking I'll get used to how you sing but I haven't yet.
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