"Maria is the one who sprouted a foolish tail just like that and ran away from home! You get down here!"

One more try but she's already backing away and looking for another street to hop to. "What's your name, I'll tell her you're still looking for her if I find her?"

"Don't you try to pull that with me! How many girls with tails can there possibly be?!"

...This may be futile but dammit she'll try to be nice.

"Oh, plenty. Look, I can get rid of it."

Behold: No more tail. She could use the starscape for this probably but it's easier to just reach for her long-ingrained habit of kitsune illusion.

"Good! Now go home!"

"I'm really sorry ma'am, I tried."

She goes over a building to a different street and resumes looking for Magic People.

None on this street, but on the next one there's a girl who has antlers. She's got them wrapped up in a scarf sort of thing but it's not designed to fool observers from above.

...If Ms. Antlers wants to talk to a visibly more Magical girl, she can come towards Weiss on her own initiative, or give some indication.

So she'll go back to ground level and just be - in Ms. Antlers's field of vision, maybe make eye contact, but not like, march right up to her.

Antlers's eyes go wide and she immediately turns and pretends she didn't see Weiss and has been very absorbed in her spinning.

Fair enough. (Sigh.)

Nobody else around who wants to talk to her?

It's not like she needs the city. That town was kind of a bust, too.

She'd like to talk to people, maybe help out, or whatever, but there's no notch in the system for girls with magic yet, aye? ...And she resolved a while ago not to get too involved in City Things, because they're always more complicated and fraught than they seem.

Bleh.

Hmph.

She takes a break on a roof and sees if she can grow an apple from her arm. On a branch if necessary.

She can grow an apple from her arm. People walking by keep looking at her.

She eats the apple and people-watches right back.

One other person thinks she's Maria but this one can be dissuaded. Somebody tells her to get off the roof and go fight monsters, that's what God sent all this magic for.

"Have you seen any monsters lately? Tell me where! If I knew where they were I would be fighting one. I ran all up the coast and only found a bunch of little ones once so far."

Man, screw the Jaquard Loom, what these people need is ham radio.

"They come out of the ocean!"

She stands up on a platform of gold. "I'll go run over the ocean, then. Thanks!"

And... Off she goes, she guesses.

Cities are more trouble than they're worth. Killing monsters is always satisfying. And she can go back later, maybe try to do the uplift thing but that sounds annoying and awful.

-Her bangle can be gold, and she can try a few extra ribbons and some adjustments to the cut and height of her various garments, and some color highlights or subtle gold threading or whatever, trying to eke out a bit more approval from the magic. Idly, while cruising out to sea. Oh, also her tail color can be sharpened and deepened like her other form got, and she tries out enlarging her breasts, adjusting the shirt's cut appropriately. For science. ...Footbangle in addition to wristbangles?

The magic is indifferent to breasts. Doubling up on bangles is good. There's a monster over there.

Monster! Okay! Time to fight. While trying not to get wet.

The monster doesn't want to come up and fight her, actually, it wants to glide underwater toward shore.

Unfortunately, kitsune fire does care about water. Somewhat.

Can she manage enough barrier to inconvenience the thing's progress while also 'flying'?

She doesn't have quite that much range on the shields.

...How about in this shape, with all its previous optimizations? Flying ribbons, fire SFX, and all.

A little more? Still not all the way out to the edge of her swarmsense and the monster is pretty close to that edge.

Nope. She fuckin' hates the ocean, she's not going under it.

She follows it until the shallowing water forces it closer. Then she can burn it.

It does eventually have to get near the surface in order to ATTACK THAT FISHING BOAT OMNOMNOM