Bella, a Nineties Kid™, has grown up aware that Phoenix exists and has all the magic in their grubby little hands. She doesn't know if she wants to work for them, or join some government task force that makes them cough it up and share, or get sent to another planet, but all of those are on the table.

When there's an incentive program to get potential tested that's enough to cover gas and a lunch out, she hauls to Port Angeles for it.

They do offer incentives when the well of candidates runs a bit thin. Fifty bucks, straight up. All she has to do is sit in front of the machine.

The operator sets things up, makes a confused sound, pages through a manual, fusses some more, and then she gets a readout.

"Eighty! Congratulations! That's 99.6th percentile."

"What does this measure exactly, anyway?" She's heard everything from 'innate magical ability' to 'nothing, it's just a way to get people to give them their contact information so they can hassle them with job openings'.

"Essentially, how strong your soul is? How strong you'll be if you get sent through? Though the soul is not the mind - I don't understand the full theory myself, this is just what I've heard."

"Huh. Do you have like, a pamphlet or anything?"

"Sure do, just a sec."

...The GPMG is your General Passive Mana Gradient, and is strongly correlated with magical talent and power after transmigration. It is an innate property of the soul that cannot be trained and can only change in exceptional circumstances. Due to the nature of Earth, only GPMG levels greater than 110 would be capable of performing magic unaided...

...GPMG is a logarithmic scale: A score of 90 is ten times more potent than 80, and a hundred times more potent than 70. Many of our clients have minimum GPMG requirements for their new hires, usually 85 or 80, though the standards can be slightly lowered for otherwise exceptional individuals...

...There are considerable practical and ethical challenges in bringing broader access to magic to Earth. Much like nuclear technology can be used for good or ill, magic is potentially extremely dangerous if used irresponsibly or maliciously, which is why Phoenix Reincarnations Incorporated keeps a careful watch over our research division...

"Thanks."

She gets lunch in Port Angeles, fills up the gas tank, goes home.

What's up on the Phoenix "open roles" page.

There's quite a few, actually. 

>Isolated Ecological Monitoring/Repair

>Facility Maintenance & Design

>Adversarial Training Simulation

>Airborne Systems Coordination

>Emplaced Security & Enforcement

>Tactical Animal Handling & Care

>Mobile Medical/Restoration Agent

>Immigration & Security Investigator

>Security Analysis & Implementation

>Scouting & Intelligence Ranger

>Continuous Exploration & Cartography

>Grassroots Emancipation Support

They're all phrased in corporate-speak and euphemisms for some reason, though it's not that hard to figure out what they're actually about with a closer look. Is she looking for anything in particular?

SHE WANTS TO DO GODDAMN MAGIC, THAT'S WHAT SHE'S LOOKING FOR. Without, ideally, cutting off the possibility of ever speaking to her parents again.

All of Phoenix Co's job opportunities involve the chance to learn magic! Though what magic, specifically, one might learn is not listed on the website. Though of the ones listed, only a few are specifically about magic - Security Analysis & Implementation is all about wards if you read between the lines. Being summoned to design and implement defenses against hordes of demons and monsters. The Mobile Agent job mentions magical training for healing and infrastructure repair specifically. Isolated Ecological Monitoring apparently involves lots of 'energy flow', which is probably magic. There's another one - hazardous energy disposal & handling- that is about getting rid of nasty magic, like curses and necromancy.

Mobile Agenting sounds promising? Especially if "mobile" means "home on Christmas". What's in the expansion of that one?

A Mobile Medical/Restoration Agent is expected to be conscientious, reserved, and diligent. They work in short bursts, occasionally under pressure, and tolerance for mistakes and errors is low; Incomplete work is preferable to bad work. Some skills and talents that apply well to Agents include first aid or medicine, project planning, civil or other engineering, and visualization/spatial reasoning. Agents will undergo a conversion for compatibility with Khintal, deity of civilization, infrastructure, healing, cooperation, and stoneworkers. Agents will be granted a small pocket dimension to live within, and be expected to answer summons by followers of Khintal on the planet Earthsea and trade with them on a regular basis. Khintal-aligned Agents have special advantages in learning certain kinds of magic, specifically healing and construction magic, so most summons request those services of them. Agents will receive six months' training in magic before being released to answer summons. The primary payment summoners offer is magical energy, which is used to sustain an Agent's existence and their pocket dimension, and can also be used for personal purposes or traded with other people in Khintal's domain, but services and objects may be accepted as well. Agents may negotiate in good faith with summoners and reject unfair offers. Khintal is a deity of cooperation and will support Agents if the Agents are acting in good faith. If there are insufficient summons or summoners are regularly acting in bad faith, Khintal will intervene.

Benefits are negotiable but may include (pocket dimension improvements, personal power increases, various tiers of internet access and other luxuries, and...) scheduled summoning during which no work is expected as 'vacation time'.

...yeah that looks really good actually? Is there any more information available about the conversion process or Khinatal?

Your soul (which again is not the mind but something different) stops being an incarnated-being type of soul and becomes an incorporeal-being type of soul; This is pretty irreversible. There are no directly mind-altering elements to the process, but new sensations and experiences do alter the mind. You will no longer have a physical body; It'll technically be a hollow shell made of magic. You can't have children, eat/drink, have sexual contact with others, or sleep normally (it becomes a sort of trance instead), without special arrangements. Many physical sensations like muscle fatigue or chill and warmth are dulled, without special arrangements. You will need magical energy to survive. 'Dying' as in having the magic shell body destroyed is painful and costs a lot of extra magic; Khintal will prevent you from dying of mana starvation unless you get ridiculously in debt and make no effort to fix it. There are kinds of magic that are especially harmful to summoned beings. There are still occasional magical dangers which can permanently kill you.

What special arrangements do you need to have sex or children or dinner?

Negotiating for it as part of your benefits or with a loan of magic from Khintal. It's easier to apply at the time of summoning, adding arrangements later is possible but much more expensive.

And what is Khintal like, as a person to have kind of attached to one's means of sustenance?

There's nothing on the Phoenix site about him other than that line about civilization, infrastructure, healing, cooperation, and stoneworkers.

Well, maybe she will send them an email asking about it, then.

Information on deities tends to be polarizing so we handle it carefully. We've had issues with various churches before. There are various kinds of beings that we class as deities. Broadly, ones that are more like people with specific wants and needs, memories, personal connections; and ones that are more like organizations with policies and precedent but lacking a social component for the most part. Khtinal and other deities native to Earthsea are of the latter type. Can I assume your interest is related to the Mobile Agent position we have open with Khintal?

-Mary, Phoenix Co

Public Relations

Yeah, it looked interesting, if potentially awfully drastic.

All our positions are pretty drastic and demanding. Things that are worth expending the effort of transmigration on are important. We try to make sure the rewards match it. I can get you an appointment to discuss it with someone in more detail if your GPMG isn't too low.

I got an 80

That's pretty good! Still too low for our most demanding positions but Khintal Agent isn't one of those. Where are you located? Can I get a phone number? If possible we'd like to have the same office you'd go to later on in the process do the initial call.

I'm in rural Washington, got tested in Port Angeles which I think is your closest location. 555-6034.