"No you can't, you're gay now, right?"

"Well yeah, I'd need a sperm donor or whatever, I just mean I could do it biologically." She pours the liquid into the other liquid and sets a timer for it to set.

"And your kids wouldn't have scales or anything?"

"Nope. They'd look like I used to and like whoever the sperm donor was."

"Huh."

Margaret pipettes the samples into their little holes and steps aside while her partner hooks the electrodes to the end. 

"So I'm guessing you don't know any other magical girls?"

"Not like personally, no."

"Well, I don't mind answering more questions about it if you have them, though of course I'm hardly an expert."

"You're not? But you are one."

"Only since, like, two weeks ago. There are people who've been doing it for way longer, and scientists who've studied magical girl biology, and so on."

"You don't just know stuff?"

"Nah, we have to figure it out as we go."

"Echoing a living thing echoes its sequence also."

". . . Okay, I do "just know stuff". But that's because I have precognition powers, it doesn't happen to everybody. Also, copied animal parts copy the animal DNA. Neat! I hadn't heard that before."

"Whoa," he says. "Precognition powers. I don't think I'd heard of those being a thing."

"Yeah, it's not one of the common ones. I like it, though." At least as long as it continues staying out of other people's business.

"It sounds like you could make a lot of money like that."

"Only if I can get it to do the stock market or sports results or something reliably. Right now it's just some stuff that helps with swarms plus the random facts."

"How's it pick which facts? That one was about what we were talking about," says her lab partner. "Maybe the government would want to talk to you about government stuff and see what happens."

"It did give me costume advice while I was at a costume consult. I'd rather talk to a sports team or a finance person than the government, but it's worth trying."

"Oh, yeah, I guess they'd want it too."

"And they're less likely to use it for bad things."

"Why don't you like the government, are you an illegal?"

"What, no, I just don't want to be targeting drone strikes for the Air Force or something."

"So if something about where terrorists are hiding comes up you don't wanna say it?"

"I really doubt I'm gonna start getting prophecies about terrorists. I'd call the police if I got one that there was going to be a bank robbery or something, I just don't want to promise some institution I don't know about that they can use my powers for whatever."

"But you might be able to get terrorist ones if you talked to people who were hunting terrorists."