"What is it about your hands?" asks Kashvi. "Or don't you know?"

She's not sure. They've always been that way; changing them around didn't help, but she only tried different shapes of human hands.

Kashvi wiggles all twenty of her fingers. "Maybe if you add another set you could troubleshoot from there."

Maybe.

"Really you might want a neurologist or something though. One who knows magical girls and can find a shortcut if there is one," says Kate, pointing out wordlessly that Kashvi could steal a build including the good ten and then theatrically snapping her fingers in dismay when Kashvi does it.

Kate builds a different ten. "I dunno where you came from," she remarks a few turns later, "but good on you getting out when God gave you wings, 's what I did, my parents were awful."

(Wow, Kate just really has no clue about anything, huh.)

Yeah, it was really obvious that she needed to. She's glad Kate got out, too.

"I didn't fetch up in a church, I came to God later," Kate goes on. "I was on the streets, I'm glad you found Flora instead."

Yeah.

Eventually the game is over; with everyone benefitting equally from Kate's expertise, Denice wins. Flora bids the Parisis goodbye and hugs both of them and shows them out, then comes back.

She's got her knees to her chest again, but she just looks thoughtful, not upset.

"I get the sense you liked the Glories better."

Yeah. Yeah, she did.

"There's some other people who might be interested, should I schedule with them too?"

Probably not.

"So should I tell the Glories you'll go home with them, or do you want to meet them again a few more times to be sure?"

If she goes and it doesn't work, what happens?

"What we could do is have you go visit them without telling anyone official anything about it, and then if it didn't work in that time, you could come back here - or to a church in Colorado, if they ship you out there to make it less obvious where you were found. But if they actually adopted you and then you changed your mind things would get more complicated."

She doesn't think it will take her very long to figure it out.

"I think an unofficial visit could be a couple of weeks long, easily."

That should be long enough, yeah.

"I'll let them know. Is there anything they should have for you before you arrive?"

Books?

"I can tell them to get books." Smile.