"I've been spending a mildly embarrassing fraction of the previous twenty-two hours fantasizing about becoming so beautiful that my sense solves all of the persistent mysteries of magic."

- giggle. "Good luck with that. What are the most annoying ones in your opinion?"

"Well, it used to be 'why are crytpids a thing,' but after becoming a magical girl I have to say it has changed to 'why does magic care about how pretty I am'."

"I assume you don't think Thaumatologists have any insight into the matter."

"I wouldn't be surprised if they have a deeper than average understanding of magic's sartorial preferences, due to having a stronger reason to care and an absurdly high magical-girl-per-capita ratio, and given that magic seems to care about something as anthropocentric as prettiness I wouldn't be shocked if there was, in fact, some intelligence behind the allocation of magic, and that the Thaumotologists had some hypothesis about its characteristics that matched reality, but I do not take their premises at face value."

...snort. "Fair enough. Far as I can tell based on Faith's occasional presentations on the subject they think God likes beauty because beauty is just inherently great, but that's not really helpful, is it?"

"I have aesthetic sensibilities, and they do not match magic's. 'Beauty is inherently good' is a reasonable opinion to have; 'this specific type of beauty is inherently superior to all other forms' impresses me less."

"Where are your disagreements with magic, do you need to be talking to Brooklyn about how to do pants?"

"It's not so much specific disagreements--I don't mind this outfit--as the fact that the first thing I conjured seemed perfectly lovely to me, but my magic considered it barely better than my previous outfit, which consisted of slacks and a button-down shirt."

"Huh. I'd need to see it to even start to guess why and if I did I'd probably be wrong, I outsource to my twin."

"At a guess it wasn't fancy enough, but I, too, outsource to my twin."

"Yay for twins!"

"Yay for twins!!!"

"Mine wants to go pro at style consultancy."

"I only got magic yesterday, so if Jaromira's ambitions have shifted in that direction it hasn't come up yet. Previously she was undecided."

"He actually was thinking about it even before I manifested."

"Jaromira is more likely to do something involving larger numbers of people at a time, I think. She is the most outrageous extrovert."

"There are outrageousnesses of extroversion?"

"She prefers being around people whom she actively dislikes to being alone! --With exceptions."

"Okay, yeah, that's a pretty severe case."

"Exceptions primarily being people who can make her life substantially more unpleasant."

"Reasonable! - Do you prefer to be alone, should I stop following you around?"

"I prefer to not be around people I find disinteresting. Thus far, I do not find you disinteresting."

"Thank you, I'm flattered."

"Magical girls have a much higher assumed baseline interestingness but you have in fact been distinguishing yourself upwards."