"Which half of the moniker. I like my birth name, even if it's a bit tainted by sharing part of it with a couple of fascist battleships."

"Well, I like the 'artist' part better, but that's just me."

Her little brass device click-click-clicks to a halt. "Ah. There we go. A6... G2S. Not quite. Let's try..." She adds a new ring to it and sets it spinning again.

"Anyway, I don't know who all is coming to help or how thoroughly we can plan this from in here but I'm making good progress on a list of who and what exactly needs to go down to kick out the Nazis for good."

"Very important task, that."

"Yep. That's why I'm getting all bothered about it. Milliways handed me a way to stop the Holocaust from ever happening, maybe stop a repeat performance of the Great War... Damn right I'll try."

"I like you."

"Probably for the best if we're going to fight Nazis together. I'm going to be having mood swings and flashbacks and stuff, possibly, just, right, nevermind. What's your theme? Anodyne - electricity, energy?"

"Sound and light."

"I don't have a good feel for magical girls' power levels yet, I think my own is a bit odd... Edie and Emily let me through the door and I thought about Nazis for two seconds and activated, is why, I'm very new to it."

"They're the kind of people who do that. Well, either you're very exceptional on your own merits or the thing that hands out powers liked the idea of sending extradimensional girls to fight Nazis."

"My money is on the second thing. I'm clever with clockwork, hence the name I guess, and just graduated the school of hard knocks and am ready to teach, but I'm not so vain I think your world's source of magic powers ought to consider me a statistical anomaly."

"Congratulations regardless, your transformation is lovely."

"Thanks! Shining brass is a nice aesthetic, I do like what I got. The wings actually work if I use the turnkey on them, it's great."

"Oh, are those not a spell?"

"They're part of the costume. I just activated, only have the one. Gears of Change. It's a gadgeteerring spell."

"Lovely. In any case, I don't think I've ever met anyone with wings that were categorically nonfunctional."

"Hm. I still have to read those magical girl statistics papers after all this. And rather relevantly, what is your opinion on lethal force against Nazis?"

"Define 'Nazi'."

"Different levels. I'm making a red list, orange list, and yellow list. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Gestapo members, and the most despicable of the top military officers are on the red list. The orange list is more permissive. The yellow list is basically 'everyone likely to oppose us who probably hasn't done despicable things personally.' Grunt guards, interns, that sort of person."

"I'm more comfortable killing grunt guards than interns if it comes down to it."

"I hear you. I'm aiming for as little overall violence as possible... I wouldn't mind being declared a war criminal at the end if it stops things from going down the tube, but less blood is better as long as the Nazis are still gone... You know what might work really well? Video cameras pointed at the work camps and then flown to the Brits. The fact that 1939's movie special effects are kind of terrible works in our favor - it'd be very hard for the Nazis to convince anyone the footage is fake."

"The only disadvantage I can see is that the camps have to continue existing long enough to get footage."

"It's '39. The Holocaust proper hasn't started yet - it's just a few scattered work camps for prisoners, even if some of them are on trumped up charges. A cleaner transition might be worth leaving them in place for a day. I'm not sure. These kinds of decisions make me feel sick to my stomach..."

"Oh. That's--good. That it hasn't started yet, not that you're feeling sick."

"Yeah, I've gotten too close to some moral quandaries to deal with them from an academic distance anymore. And time's paused in here, I checked, or I'd be giving you all a rush lecture on how to tell when a tesla cannon is trying to fry you and pushing for us to go go go."