"I'll give you that, I'd just take the disconcertion and be able to listen to an audiobook any day."

"Wow, it's almost like you're an introvert. No, that makes sense."

"I am, it's wretched."

"My brother--the one in the basement--he's an introvert. If my healing doesn't deal with backlash already I will work something out that does."

"I'm trucking along okay but I could clear so many more dungeons with a quick fix. And so could June, she's amazing in the field."

"If my brother had to talk to someone he'd met the same day as long as you and I have been talking already he'd be thinking very longing thoughts about a dark room and a book."

"Tragically I don't have a lot of particularly long-term friendships. When I awakened my parents tanked the whole thing, there was nobody it would even have slightly made sense to invite. Since then I get Ren to introduce me to her friends more often."

"Perks of not being an only child."

"I guess that would help! But seriously even if I were not backlashed at all and someone else had burgled your pocket dimension you would be the most interesting thing going on right now, your whole deal is very neat."

"I think my deal is pretty neat! In as many as several ways. Not only are my powers cool but I really like not being dead."

"If you could deglomerate would you want to do that?"

"...Good question. Proooobably? Depends on what deglomerating would consist of. Also, like, ideally I would like to make someone else into a magical girl first."

"What will that process be like, I'm trying to figure out if I should volunteer as tribute."

"I'm...not exactly sure...I mentioned having a Virtue and a Theme, right, what d'you think your virtue would be?"

"...can you give me some examples so I can be rummaging around on the right level of abstraction?"

"So, there's basically two factors that go into what makes a good virtue: there's how well you can embody it, and there's how, well, virtuous it is. I...don't really have examples because I...don't have other magical girls to draw examples from."

"Okay, but are we talking about, like, 'charity', or like, 'being a good listener', or... yours is 'agape'?"

"Charity would work in the sense of...being charitable in interpreting things, being sympathetic, steelmanning people--charity as in the act of giving money to charity wouldn't. Being a good listener wouldn't I think but being attentive and caring about people being heard would--it has to be a, a mindstate you can embody. I realize that in real life doing good things matters more than thinking good thoughts but it is in fact mindstates that produce mana."

"I give a lot of money to charity but I admittedly don't hang out occupying a mindstate about it for very long. I... am somewhat constrained in what mindstates I can hang out occupying for very long, considering, maybe I should circle back to this if backlash magic works. - there's a reply to the messageboard, somebody's niece has a suspected awakening and is in the hospital -"

"What hospital?"

"TGH. Do you want me to go with you, I'll have to go back to June after to get down to zero if your miracle cure doesn't have such promising results that I want it for myself immediately but I'm good to go on an errand now."

"Is June going to be okay if you leave?"

"According to her most recent status emoji and what I can feel of her backlash I think she'll cope, I'm certainly not going to ask her."

"Fair enough. If I can clear backlash I can certainly do hers, anyway."

"The upside potential is way better than times when I have abandoned a guiding session to go get pizza, anyway, dungeoneering is often pretty hungry work."