She sighs. "You're really determined about this, huh?"

"The most determined."

"...I'll think about it."

"Thanks."

She nods, slightly. "You're welcome, I guess?"

She sighs.

"Did you want to talk about anything else?"

"Dunno. Don't think so..."

"If you end up wanting to, you know my contact info, okay?"

She nods. "Yeah."

"Thanks for talking. I guess."

She smiles a little.

"It's not a problem."

"Good luck, and - see you around."

She nods, and they go their separate ways.

Shisui, who'd been quiet, sticks with Sue.

"She does seem - very sure Kyubey is doing everything right."

"Yeah."

Shoulder bump. "Good job sticking to your guns, though. I'll help you where I can, okay?"

She smiles a little. "Okay."

"Thanks, Shisui."

"No problem."

She keeps training in magic. Keeps working. Keeps slowly accumulating grief seeds, learning how best to fight the witches that inevitably hatch - ends up fighting two at once, wins anyways -

She works with Kyubey, too. Slowly pokes at the edges of his opinion of her, asking questions he mostly avoids -

She wants to know how to stop grief seeds from hatching, mostly...

They have to have some way of doing it, to transport the seeds for destruction if nothing else.

A possible answer comes one day, when a nomad passes by -

She feels incredibly, immensely powerful. Magical girls normally only kind of register to her senses. This one, though...

She appears to have been following a genuinely massive witch.

Sue had noticed the witch coming. Decided to deal with that first -

She's there, resplendent in her raiment, when the nomadic girl arrives.

"Who are you?"

"...Gwen. I have dibs on this witch."

"It's threatening my town. I can help."

She sighs. "Keep familiars off my back, and don't get in my way, alright?"

"Alright."

The girl - really more a woman - turns, opening the portal into the witch with a small gesture, before stepping inside.