"Nnnnnno, hadn't gotten around to it before we came here. Uh. She had an older sister who was a doctor? And predeceased her. Oh! I know her wish! She wished to bring back one of her sister's patients who died."

"That will be enough to let me find her in the records, then. What are your plans going forward?"

"I want to rescue as many witches as possible and--oh man how did I not mention this this bit is critical--she can eat the dinge out of my soul gem."

"That does seem important, yes. Does this process generate full seeds?"

"I don't think so. She keeps all her seeds inside herself, anyway, I don't think another Dolls of Bedlam is going to hatch inside her given that her waking up destroyed all the ones that exist."

"How many seeds does she have 'inside herself'?"

"Enough that she didn't produce them all at once because they wouldn't fit in her cupped palms and she didn't want them spilling all over."

"I'm going to need that number, and more importantly whether the number changes over time."

"Okay. I will ask her. What's the significance if the number changes?"

"That information is sensitive."

You're asking me to give you information about my friend for a reason you won't specify. 

This does not make Wei Ying less suspicious about the imperial administration. 

Outwardly, she nods. "Okay. I'll let you know what I find out." 

"Thank you. Please don't do it again right away. It may have some destabilizing effects, if it doesn't stick as you might hope on Wen Ning, or depends on the individual witch, or is very unpopular with the general magical girl population."

"...I think it's probably pretty stable. But I won't try to scale it up until we have longer-term observation data." 

"You may email my office with anything you find. When I have a while free I may wish to meet her myself."

"Sure! Of course!" If that happens Wei Ying is making SO SO SURE that Rhonda is ready to teleport Wen Ning to safety at a moment's notice.

"Is there anything else I need to know right now?"

"I don't think so!"

"All right, thank you very much for coming to us with your breakthrough! Is your contact information on file up to date?"

"Yes." 

"My address is out of date."

"As long as you're here, what's your new one?"

She gives her apartment address and number. 

Ling Wen's magical brush takes that down. "Thanks very much. Where can we find Wen Ning?"

"...I'm not sure she would feel safe, being approached by a strange magical girl right now. We can bring her here if you want to see her?"

"We don't mean your friend any harm. But if she's in a known location, we can expect that any reports of danger there might have something to do with her, and go in more cautiously. It would be revolutionary if your solution were stable. Until we know, we need to be oriented to exactly where it might be unstable. When we don't know what we're sending people into, girls die. And this is often in fact death. Shattered gems, not witches."