noon9834: we last spoke a long time ago, she probably doesn't remember me

You pretty clearly remember her. 

noon9834: yes
noon9834: I don't think I made much of an impression at the time

I recognize that the space of things that would be evidence that you aren't a stalker is pretty limited but that is farther outside that boundary than MANY things.

noon9834 does not reply.

Later that week, Wei Ying is kidnapped out of her bed.

What the fuck.

What the fuck!?

It looks like some of the artists' renditions of monsters she's seen--holy shit is she being eaten by a monster--if she is then probably this is not related to her trying to solve the monster problem but this SURE IS SUSPICIOUS. 

She yanks against her bonds, trying to test their strength. 

They have enough give that she can shift position but she can't get out or break them.

It's a pretty witch, and not exactly like any of the ones she's seen drawn; it's themed around flowers and blood and silver butterflies. There is a silver butterfly on her shoulder, in fact.

When she starts moving, a curtain of flowers parts, and a magical girl dressed in red enters.

She stops struggling. 

None of the monster-stuff is attacking this magical girl. 

Which means she's got some kind of cooperative relationship with it, or is controlling it in some way, or maybe is just making it ignore her. 

Which makes it WAY MORE LIKELY that her capture had an intelligence behind it. 

"So are you noon9384 or someone who objects to my monster-related inquiries?"

"Call me Noon for short."

"Why isn't the monster attacking you? Are you controlling it or working with it in some way? Do you know things about monsters?"

"I know a lot of things about monsters. I can tell you about them if you tell me where to find her."

"You realize that kidnapping me makes you about a BILLION times more suspicious, right?"

"I am no longer trying to learn what I need to know by being unsuspicious."

Sigh. 

"So are we starting with waterboarding or fingernail splinters."

"Is that what it's going to take?"

"I'm not gonna sell out someone like her to a creepy stalker! She seemed nice. She had her own powers bound so she wouldn't hurt anyone! I would say I won't talk even under torture but I've read about torture and apparently almost everyone will break and talk within three days. I think it was three days."

"It is good of you to try to protect her.

I don't wish her any harm."

She looks slowly up and down her own restraints and gives noon a profoundly unimpressed look. 

"Whether I wish you harm is a separate question. But she is safe from me."

"Oh, sure, I was going to protect her from you, but since you say so, I'll definitely ignore the only available evidence with regards to whether you harm people."

"Is she safe now?"

"Is anybody safe in this world?"

"Some more than others."

"Well, she's survived long enough for Mandarin to change into a different language, I think she can take care of herself. Against monsters. You, I would make fewer bets about. After all, you say you've survived a while too."

"Jiejie is older than me."