She will be studiously attentive to her posture! She makes a note that "walk-and-talk" may be an especially productive way to have discussions with Brian.

And nudge this hem and adjust the angle of this sleeve and try this with the jewelry, propagate it here, back off on that a touch... adjust the shapes of these scales... try this color of eye... a gap in the shirt here, a connection of necklace to shirt here...

So much fun! What color of eyes does she end up with? (For that matter, are her scales still silver?)

Just a slightly different shade. Her scales are still silver but subtly different shades to highlight contours of her underlying shape.

"I look like a pool of mercury, awesome." she says when the scale color adjustments are done.

The stylist grins at her. "I'm glad you like it."

"Yup! And the magic likes it too."

"Coming up on time. I'm going to take reference photos, pour myself a shot, and see if I come up with anything creative while tipsy; sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, sober me's out of ideas."

"Sounds good." She will pose for reference photos.

Reference photos are taken, including zoom shots and pics of the soles of her shoes. The stylist downs a shot of whisky. She then wants to adjust the shape of Margaret's nostrils and climb a ladder to check her radial symmetry from directly overhead and optimize her shorts a little in case the magic looks up her skirt. (It turns out the magic does look up her skirt.)

Her clothes are relatively radially symmetric but her horns and her wings are not. The stylist and the magic are the only entities allowed to look up her skirt. "Does the magic look up some people's skirts but not others?"

"If you get really dense with ruffles it doesn't care any more than it cares what color your liver is," she says. "It's just angle-agnostic, not opacity-agnostic."

"Ah, hence the shoe soles only mattering when they're not right against the floor. Okay."

"Well, the cutaways that form the treads can still matter. That's why I did more with tread shape than with color or something." She prints Margaret some shorts fabric, does a quick-and-dirty cut and staple to get it shorts shaped, and hands it over.

Shorts: are put.

The magic likes the shorts. The stylist gets off her mechanic's skateboard type thing that she apparently keeps around for just this reason. "And let's get more photos and I think we're done for the day."

"Great! This has been really awesome. I'm kind of exhausted even though all I did was stand here."

"I hear that all the time. There's a smoothie place across the street, people tell me they hit the spot after a long day."

"Ooh, that does sound good." And if nothing else is required of her, she will go get a peanut butter banana smoothie.

They provide her with one. It is reasonably yummy and has a spoon of protein powder in there.

That would explain why they're such a good pick-me-up.

The next morning, she's talking to Brian about measles vaccines, and wondering when she's going to get her next prophecy, and she notices for the first time a sort of direction she can reach in, with her magic. When she goes for it, out comes a prophecy about which town should be prioritized in an upcoming vaccination campaign.

The CDC dutifully follows this advice.

She gets another one Tuesday and again on Thursday and Friday. She doesn't get one every time she reaches out with her magic, but she has more control over the timing now, and doesn't interrupt herself anymore.

She's so useful! She continues to receive bonuses.

Since immersion in a topic seems to have worked so far, she buys a pillow shaped like an e. coli and starts leaving biology audiobooks she's already heard playing softly overnight. 

On Friday afternoon she gets another involuntary one, telling her to walk part of the way home instead of flying. She can't really begrudge this one for not being about a disease outbreak or a CDC policy, because she finds a cat cafe, where she spends some of her latest bonus on muffins and cat treats. On Monday, it's back on form, recommending one pro-hand-washing poster over another.