"Dunno.  She was never into computers."

Well.  Her astrolabe is pointing somewhere.  That's a good sign.  It's not for a little while, though.

"Well.  I've got a few ways of finding what needs to be found, as far as Zella goes.

"And...that's a very good question, Lila."

Surely Kiri has some backup Kyubey-hacking equipment somewhere...

"I think if we can answer it, we'll be on to something pretty important."

"She had a basic laptop from school, but she took it with her when she vanished."

Jenny's eyes suddenly open wider.  "She didn't usually take it with her when she left at night, did she?  Laptops aren't something you generally use for hunting witches."

They both shake their heads.

"That's what she was doing?  How - do you hunt witches?"

"...With magic, generally.  I suspect it would be possible to track a witch over camera feeds somehow, but it's not something I would expect to be worthwhile.  ...I wonder if there's any backups we could access.  Especially if it's school-issue..."

Tools, skills, knowledge, and will, to face the challenge of figuring out what Kiri was doing with that laptop, will come to her.  That is her demand unto the universe, as she riffles through her pockets.

"Look here," Lila says, picking up one of Kiri's notebooks that she'd already flipped through before.  "She says she got past the cats' security using her bow.  I thought that was a metaphor for some computer thing, but - maybe they don't use Earth computer networks at all, and she really was using a bow?  That's her magical weapon, I'm guessing?"

Jenny nods, thoughtfully.  "She really wasn't into computers at all; that'd make more sense for her... but how?  Surely she wasn't trying to break into their..."

She stares at the sketches of what really do look like witches' barriers.

"If the Kyuubeys have a totally different set of barriers, how would Kiri have found them?  Or is it some other sort of metaphor?"

Magical girl pulling shit out of her ass powers...activate?

"...I mean, if we consider M-theory...and we can dowse for witches...and Kyuubeys have to do something with the Grief Seeds..."

Okay actually that's a reasonable guess!  Sort of!  It doesn't explain any hows but it does provide a model!

...She's going to see if she can pull out Kiri's bow, for that matter.  Pretty please, magic powers?

A sleek fiberglass shortbow appears in her hands.

"That's not Kiri's bow - I mean, it looks a lot like it, but hers was wood.  Yours looks a lot more... modern?"

"Wait, we can make other weapons too?  Where do they come from?  I think that matters more than the specifics of Kiri's bow..."

They come from their magic?  Which comes from their wish?

"What'd Kiri wish for?"

"Friends.  Who'd be there for each other."  Jenny shakes her head, remembering.  "I don't see what that has to do with her bow?  Or what your wish, Lila, has to do with your bow?"

"What I want to know is what her bow has to do with the Kyuubeys."

The bow's not the answer, so what is?

She braces herself, focuses on her Wish, and pulls.

...That is a keyblade.

Why is there a keyblade.

...Okay, actually, now that she's thinking about it...

"...Well, this makes a surprising amount of sense, for the amount of sense you would normally expect this to make.  Anyone have objections to my stabbing the bunnycat with a keyblade and hoping it works as it's normally depicted?"

"I've often wanted to stab them, but - why?  Do we want them angry at us?"

"You're trying to... make a portal to a barrier?  Might work... but I'm worried about getting them angry at us too.  Maybe they were angry at Kiri and disappeared her?"

"...It's possible.  But I'm not sure that's actually the most parsimonious explanation.

"...Actually maybe we should be trying to unlock our own Soul Gems anyway..."

Lila relaxes.

"Yes!  Jenny, weren't you talking with Kiri about that before she moved here?  It makes sense she would've been looking into that!"

...She muses, tapping the flat of her keyblade against the gem resting at the base of her throat.  "I suspect that whatever I am from the Kyuubeys' perspective, I am most certainly quarantined, given that it called me an anomaly.

"Therefore, I believe I may need to ask one of you to participate in this experiment."

"I'm sure you can hack it - Kiri did, after all."

Come to think of it, she's sort of uncomfortable with the notion of experimenting with her soul gem. 

"Or I'll try it."

She's glad to take this next step in her story.

"...I'm not certain of anything to do with the Kyuubeys, Jenny, and if I were you, I wouldn't recommend being certain either.  The amount of things we don't know far outweighs what we do - and even the amount that I expect to learn before we have to act on our scraps of knowledge.  The world's not waiting for us to catch up to it."

Lila sits cross-legged in her magical dress, and morphs her soul-gem into a bauble like she's dowsing for witches.  She focuses on what it feels like to do that.  It feels like something, now that she's paying attention.

("To face exciting challenges - and to be able to meet them -")

What else can she dowse for?  What is her soul gem, and what else can she do with it?  Now that she focuses on it, she feels there're some other things she can do with her soul gem.

Her crossbow morphs into a bugle; she smiles and sets it aside.

She's not going to do anything in particular just yet, because she thinks Lila is on to something of her own and would hate to interrupt that process, but she's watching, intently.