Oh. For some reason I think arcanism suits you.

Huh. Any particular reason?

I'm not really sure. Just—seems right? And enchanting seems like it fits Emily.

I can see that. She'd probably really want the meta senses, though.

Yeah. She'll be very overwhelmed when I show it to her.

She will.

Beam.

She snuggles him insofar as she is capable of this midair.

And soon they arrive.

Edie touches down lightly on the roof and leads the way inside.

When they reach the apartment, she calls out, "Hey, Emily! Guess what I found out while we were out."

"What?" Emily asks, emerging from her bedroom.

"Kaede can show you," she says, looping Emily into the telepathy.

And he bounces her his current perception of the room—Edie's magic, her wings, Emily's dormant magic, Kaede's own, the ward out the window in the distance...

"Oh wow," she breathes.

"I know!"

"That's so--that's so--ooh," she twirls in delight.

He giggles. "My magic can't lend or bounce this sense, and it hadn't occurred to me that Edie's might be able to do something like this before." He manipulates the sense a bit—turns things around, shifts point of view, rotates, just to show her what it's like.

Eee. "Why can't your magic?"

"I mean, maybe it's possible with enough mana but, if anything's a hard limit I'd expect it to be this. Metamancers can't detect mages, we can detect mana, so a metamancer can pass for a mage if they only have one mana type, or for a nonmage if they're not carrying any mana with them, so I think it's something to do with that, how you can only go one meta level up and can't do magic to metamagic."

"It's a thing in your mind, though."

"Yeah, but it's an extra sense, too? So it's not too weird that other brains can't interface with it natively and my magic at least does not seem to be very good at creating this interface like Edie's does."

"It does not surprise me one bit that Edie's magic can do this."

"I don't think I understand her magic well enough yet to predict this kind of thing."

"Oh, it's less the fact that she's a Magical Girl and more the fact that the Magical Girl is her."

"Mm?"