"Yeah. I think the revelation was supposed to witch me--based on the way it was presented--but before I had even finished processing the horror of it I had started brainstorming ways to turn witches back, so my soul gem didn't fill up all the way--uh, the thing that happens to a magical girl when she uses magic is that her soul gem, which is a magical jewel attached to her in the same way that grief seeds are attached to witches, darkens, and strong negative emotions also make a soul gem darker, and you more or less can't be any happier than your soul gem is bright. And if it goes all the way dark, well. Anyway, that revelation darkened my gem some but I did not witch on the spot and I was absolutely 100% going to tell some more magical girls what was up and then--I'm pretty sure something happened to my soul gem. If your soul gem breaks you die. But the happening was fast and did not happen in my field of vision, so." 

"Somebody wanted to witch you on purpose? Why?"

"It was one of the little alien guys who manage the ecosystem."

"I wonder how they pick who to turn into a witch."

"There are all sorts of things I don't know about their deal because I didn't get a chance to find out before biting it." And this is deeply frustrating actually.

"Are there a lot of - ongoing emergencies you left behind as distinct from doomed timelines that aren't getting any doomeder and worlds that are chugging along tolerably well?"

"Hm, let me think...um, lots of ongoing problems I was trying to solve that, uh, solved me first, not so much actively unstable situations...might depend on your definition of emergency? But also again standard caveats about remembering things later apply."

"Naturally! And in the very longest of runs even a world that could be described as chugging along tolerably is going to turn out to have fractal problem depth."

"I know, right? I mean, there's problems and there's problems, but, like--you'd think that dungeons and witches would be the main thing, in either universe, but do you know how much cancer there is? Fuck cancer! And malaria, and Huntington's, and that's just things that are at this time killing people who are still alive, and not even beginning to get into the billions of people who are, you know, dead, and I didn't see anything in that book about any espers having resurrection powers."

"They don't, it sucks! I donate, like, most of my income that I'm not reinvesting in equipment to malaria control."

"Good for you! ...I think I should be able to develop resurrection, off healing, it's not a stretch, but, hm, scaling it would be more difficult." 

"Scaling! Please imagine me shaking my fist, I'm not doing it but you can't see me so that doesn't have to be an impediment."

"Oh, for sure. The number of things I can do and the number of things I can scale, haha, they don't know each other."

"Making more magical girls might be promising? Will the more magical girls also be able to make more?"

"I...think so. That's probably my best bet for scaling, yeah. But I haven't figured out how to do it yet so my initial statement stands despite the very promising caveat."

"And of course you don't want to create more problems than you solve but vetting slows you down and isn't perfect anyway, though, like, nobody vets espers before we awaken, we just happen, and so far that is mostly okay, so maybe this is a relatively robust planet on which to go nuts on magical girling everybody."

"...I feel like, there might be a problem that I haven't identified yet," she says slowly, "but I haven't identified it yet, and might not want it spread around when I do."

"A problem like... a drawback of being a magical girl, or some other kind of problem."

"...Some other kind of problem. I'm pretty sure. A problem with the process, maybe? Hm."

"Takes a lot of mana, maybe?"

"Maybe. Maybe it's going to turn out that steering has some obnoxious tradeoff. I'll know more when I have a better idea of how to do it, I think."

"Will getting there take the form of introspection or of experimentation?"

"Um...more of the latter than the former, but organizing the brain manual certainly ought to help."

"Is bumbling along through whatever the first thought to come into my mind is the best way to do that?"

"Plausibly not but I'm not sure what the best method is?"