"Do you know if the fluffs are deliberately making sure magic is a secret? I was pretty confused by that the first time around."

"They don't let people see them if they're not magic or getting courted. People sometimes tell a few loved ones. I think they kill or try to witch anyone who looks like they might make progress on going public."

"I knew it was weird that no one'd succeeded at that in the thousands of years this has been going on."

"Oh and - magical girls can turn off pain. This is important to know how to do if you might antagonize the fluffs, if they get their paws on a gem they can directly hack all the sensory input."

"Thank you for warning me of that."

"You're welcome. I don't think they can do it at range."

"I'm not a magical girl and have no plans to become one but that should probably go into Emily's standard loop briefing."

"Yeah. Also, magical girls and potentials can use telepathy but it relays off the fluffs, nothing sensitive."

"Ooh, telepathy. That's a mental thing, maybe it should go on the list of experimental mind-optimization wishes."

"Non-fluff-relayed versions? Maybe, yeah."

"Very discreet, very high information density..."

"It'd be pretty likely to leave Emily efficient at mindreading but I guess she doesn't have to use that. Except perhaps to spy on evil fluff."

"Spying on evil fluff is good, and it's not like she'd keep it."

"Yeah, just gives me the heebie-jeebies."

"Fair enough. We probably couldn't design it in such a way that it only made her efficient at mindreading the fluffs, more's the pity."

"Oh well."

"We could end that loop pretty quickly after, though, if you weren't comfortable with keeping it."

"Or just do it while on opposite sides of the country."

"Or that, yeah."

"Anyway, do your folks wanna see me do the Sailor Moon thing tonight or later?"

"Probably later."