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Bella's on her way to kill a witch.
It usually hits Port Angeles, inspires arson, and then if allowed spins off a familiar that does the same in Forks. She's tracked it back far enough that she can reliably head it off before it makes that fellow set that apartment building on fire as long as she hops in the car without doing her hospital exit paperwork. If she's lucky, this time she's early enough to nab it before it lights up the bakery, too.
...The fuck is that? It's not usually there.
onceandforall
"Should I set you down on a building or something? I'll give you a communicator so we can still talk, the scanner's not quite smart enough for that."
And so he does. His ship then visits several other buildings to distract from her current location, then resumes hovering over central Spokane, sensors ready.
"Let me know when you find one and we'll see if I can find them."
"Let me know when you find one and we'll see if I can find them."
onceandforall
"Sure."
She takes out her notes on Day One Evening and her movements. She then starts leaping around quite brazenly building to building in a search pattern.
She takes out her notes on Day One Evening and her movements. She then starts leaping around quite brazenly building to building in a search pattern.
A lot of people notice her and point excitedly and take pictures. The police order her to come down (ha).
onceandforall
Yeah, she's been through this song and dance before and she stopped caring about that sort of thing during a standard reset when she's not trying to perfect a whole run a subjective year ago. She doesn't come down.
It's going to take her a while to find what she's looking for, even using her soul gem to dowse. But eventually she locates Day One Evening in a suburb.
"Found her. Do you see anything?"
It's going to take her a while to find what she's looking for, even using her soul gem to dowse. But eventually she locates Day One Evening in a suburb.
"Found her. Do you see anything?"
The ship takes a few moments to relocate over the suburb.
"Nothing. I can't tell those houses apart from any other houses in any way, shape, or form. Your country's army is sending some jets, though. They'll be here in, oh, three hours."
"Nothing. I can't tell those houses apart from any other houses in any way, shape, or form. Your country's army is sending some jets, though. They'll be here in, oh, three hours."
onceandforall
"I might wanna spend the rest of this reset in space hanging out with you talking physics," she remarks. "Does that sound fun? I'm gonna go kill this witch."
"I'm going to work on finding D-fuel and refining it starting tomorrow, but once that's done, sure thing."
"Woah, okay, that's weird. There was a burst of Schetzenfeld bosons, and you disappeared for a second. Did the witch do that?"
onceandforall
"Depends on what you saw. That was either me going into the witch's little magical habitat, or me pausing time."
"Okay, nothing that time. So it was the witch. I can make a scanner specifically for that kind of radiation - it'll only have a range of about 200 miles, but if you dupe it I can network 'em and cover the whole globe."
onceandforall
"Only slightly. Covering the globe myself post-reset when all the scanners are gone will be a pain in the neck and it'll only tell me when some other puella magi engages a witch, not when one's going unhandled."
"Alright. If we're not going to try to avoid attention, should I just pick you up in the middle of the street?"
onceandforall
"Yeah. Park in high orbit where nobody can shoot at you till you've found the fuel you're looking for."
He does both things.
"I was nearly finished a D-fuel scanner, but you showed up and were all - distracting. So now I'm gonna finish that, make your witch-battle-starting scanner, and then start a search pattern over the globe. Do let me know if you need to be in a place to kill another witch, psychological problems are nobody's friend."
"I was nearly finished a D-fuel scanner, but you showed up and were all - distracting. So now I'm gonna finish that, make your witch-battle-starting scanner, and then start a search pattern over the globe. Do let me know if you need to be in a place to kill another witch, psychological problems are nobody's friend."
onceandforall
"I mean, I'm to the point where I can kill two, three witches a day if nothing interferes with me driving around, but then I reset and everyone's back where they are the morning of Day One. I don't know how to save the world and stop resetting, yet. Once I figure it out I'll do a perfect run. Until then it's just practice and harvesting grief seeds."
"You could still stop suffering for now. Even if this timeline will stop existing, the harm witches do is still around for about a month. But if you don't want to, you don't want to. Feel free to explore the ship, it won't let you in to the dangerous rooms. Or keep talking to me if you want. Full disclosure, there are cameras and microphones everywhere - I can turn em off if you need to go to the bathroom or something."
And he goes to the workshop and works on things.
And he goes to the workshop and works on things.