"...So why, exactly, is it usually a weapon?"

:I cannot answer that question.  The full extent of the factors that determine what a magical girl is most readily able to summon is not yet known.:

"How long do I have to decide my Wish?  There's so much I don't know about magic, and what I'd get anyway and what I'd want to wish for!"

:I am not, precisely, 'in a hurry' about this; however, due to factors I am unable to understand but that have been conclusively measured, you will get more value if you wish between now and the time you graduate this educational institution.:

"Oh, I won't be waiting that long!"

(She can guess what the value is - more time to have fun with magic and get involved in interesting things before being tied down to a job and boring normal grown-up life.)

"... Diana, what're you thinking?"

"I'm not sure, yet.  Something is still - rubbing me the wrong way, about this whole thing.  But - fuck, I can't let you go it alone, can I."

:There is no external factor stopping you from doing that, to my knowledge.:

" -- see?!"

She kneels down next to the cat-fay.  "You don't think like a human, right?  And we shouldn't be expecting you to?"  Pause.  "What are you?  Are you a Fay?"

:I do not and you should not.  I am an Incubator.  I am not a 'Fay'.:

"That doesn't change the point that I'm making that - we are being treated like numbers on a spreadsheet, there is a Masquerade, and we don't know why, and yet you're entirely ready to rush in where angels fear to tread!"

"But would you really rather be left on the outside of the Masquerade to wonder what could've been!?"

"I don't know, will I be?!"

:I do not do anything like wipe the minds of potential contractees.  That would be counterproductive.:

That combines with Diana's point about the Masquerade (still rattling about Lila's head) to give her some guess about the shape of things.

"So... can I go home and tell my parents about this?  Not saying I want to - they'll tell me to be safe and how I really should stay out - but someone would probably do that?  Unless you're only talking to people you know wouldn't do that?"

:They would find it very hard to believe you, even if you did magic directly in front of them.:

Which is not false.  Why this is, is, of course, another question entirely.

"A weirdness censor?"  It isn't really a question.  "That isn't the worst thing... even though I'm really glad I'm on the inside of that!  You too, Diana?"

"I do generally have a preference that I know things."

"What about we take the afternoon to think of our wishes and then... tonight?  Before school tomorrow?"

:You should know that you are presently only protected from the 'filtering' around certain things by virtue of your potential to make a contract,: the Incubator follows up.  :I do not expect either of you to lose that potential by tomorrow morning.:

Also true, albeit misleading in a way.

"...Gah.  Fuck.  Fine.  Tomorrow.  After school lets out and we've talked to that other girl, which," she glares at Kyuubey, "I'm sure you can arrange."

:I cannot guarantee her availability.:

"Then get her phone number or something.  Surely she isn't Baned, or the school would've exploded."

:The concept you communicated would not necessarily lead to this building exploding.  You are correct that magic has no particular detrimental effect on technology that it is not intended to.  I will ask the girl you saw.  I cannot guarantee she'll agree.:

Kyuubey is not planning to make her; Lila is quite firmly on the hook, and Diana will follow her out of misguided responsibility.