it's really excellent! still amused that you and Rhonda ran into each other already

I guess if you can teleport you meet lots of people.

yeah. she fights witches all over the place, so she meets lots of magical girls. and disproportionately talks to the ones who don't get bitchy about territory

I don't need much, so I don't fight over it if someone wants the same seed as me. I can always get another.

San Niang has normal needs though, right?

A little less than usual! Not by as much as me, but she doesn't do big flashy stuff.

that's fair. I do know a lot of people who do variously flashy stuff. I'm probably the most expensive magical girl I know but fortunately my power also makes hunting much safer

Yep! You should probably carry seeds with you in the field.

Oh I do. Lan Zhan gets on my case if I don't have at least three on my person at all times.

Three? How expensive IS your power?

not three seeds worth of expensive. Lan Zhan just worries about me enough to make her whole wish about it 

I guess that makes sense!

to be fair I can totally imagine emergency situations where it would be useful 

Yeah, like if you wind up bailing out some girl who got caught in a particularly bad witch you'd want extra.

or if I ran into a REALLY strong witch. stronger witches are more expensive than weaker ones

Huh, they have a single defined strength level? Some are easier and some are harder but I sort of assumed that was partly about how well fed they were and partly about stylistic matches between their combat style and mine and partly luck. Is strength mostly what I've been thinking of as fed-ness?

I think so! it's like how there's a difference between how much charge a magical girl can keep in her soul gem and how good she is at fighting. you wouldn't be a very "strong" magical girl since you don't do magic but you're amazingly badass

You're too kind.

I mean now you have San Niang but do you know what magical girl survival statistics look like for normal magical girls with all their powers? you have none and you've survived since hanyu was a completely different language!

For a lot of that time I did have all my powers.

well I have never heard of whatever mistake it was so it must still be a long time ago

You study a lot of ancient Chinese history?

no but the fact that it qualifies as ancient puts you squarely in the objectively impressive category!

All right, all right.

someday I'm gonna be super old and people are gonna tell me I'm impressive and I'll be like "nah, I have the easiest power to survive with, you should see Xie Lian, now she's impressive"