Found what?

So remember when you asked why we were fighting that guy, and we said, "it's a long story, but here's a general answer"? This is part of the longer more specific answer.

I am curious about the longer, more specific answer.

Understandably. But--call me paranoid, but I'd rather wait to share it until we're out of here.

Naturally. My curiosity can wait.

(Correction: two very pretty girls. This is a little bit overwhelming and he is so not complaining.)

Good.

And then she is enveloped in light and when it disappears she is no longer wearing a dress, but a shirt and a pair of pants with a slightly ridiculous number of pockets in it. Her magic's still there, but it's gone dormant. She takes a nonmagical object out of one of the pockets, pokes at it, and starts talking into it.

- what was that?

She detransformed.

I might need more context, here.

Magical girls have to activate their magical girl forms in order to use their magic. She just deactivated hers. Magical girl forms have associated outfits and she turned back so she could access her phone, which was in her mundane clothes for safekeeping.

...this is so ridiculously beyond any magic I have ever seen I can't even -

How so?

This implies her mundane clothes were somewhere else and kept safe while she was wearing—whatever that was—and the sheer amount of magic I just saw change states -

It's stranger than our fusing?

It's—differently strange? Or, about the same level of strangeness but different flavour, I guess.

You know that the human body has way more mass than a set of clothing, right?

Yes... Well I guess I hadn't processed that when you two were that—fused person—your bodies must've been somewhere else rather than just... mushed up there.

Lady Ironheart has more mass than my sister or I but not as much as both of us put together.

I can see magic not mass, as far as I knew she was a superdense hyperlady.

Nah, she'd've moved differently.

Maybe not, your magic's complex enough it wouldn't surprise me at all if it could deal with that, too.

I mean I guess it could have--disguised her weight, somehow--but, hm, interfering with the gravitational constant seems like a less--elegant--solution than just not having something be superdense.

You're messing with physics anyway, aren't you? Tucking stuff away who-knows-where.

I don't know if that's even really how it works, but yeah, the laws of physics get fucked with regularly. It's just, hm, I would expect screwing with gravity to need more...maintenance...than Lady Ironheart seems to need on that level.

If you say so. I have no intuitions about this magic.