"The annual meeting is fun, at least. This one's in August- A weekend thing."

"Oh, what makes it fun?"

"Everyone's showing off, telling stories, trading stuff, sparring - it's one of the few times there's more than a dozen magical girls in one place at a time, so it's always cool."

"I will attempt to carve out the relevant weekend."

"It's cool, I promise! Wanna hear about the big five?"

"Please." She is ready to take notes.

"Antoine, an Ice user who doesn't really have raw power but is known to be knowledgeable and strategic. And a boy with this sort of confident dignified look.

Sola and Luna, Who are... Sorta technically twins but started as the same person? With fire and water powers, always work in a team. They put on a truly spectacular show.

Monument, a Stone user with absolutely phenomenal vitality, rumor has it she can walk straight into a volcano. She's the bigshot tank who wades into the hardest fights to take damage.

Amazona, a Beast user who summons armies of phantasmal, magical animals to do what she asks. She's got an animal ready to deal with almost anything, it seems like.

Those are the big five in North and South America. The Olympians have a trio who call themselves the Fates, one of them can cut things at a distance, I don't know nearly as much, and the Heavenly Stars brag about their leader, Shining Pillar, who's a reinforcement and warding specialist."

"How did they start as the same person, did they bilocate like you and then make it stick somehow?"

"Yeah, it's a thing that happens occasionally. Twinned soul, they call it."

"Cool, I guess! About how many magical girls are there in North America for them to have - floated to the top of?"

"Ballpark a thousand? Two, with South America? The PGC meeting usually has like, a couple hundred."

"Huh, what fraction of potentials is that?"

"I dunno, the demographics make no sense to me. It's a lot of newbies- First decade, like me- And then an increasingly long tail of older and older ones. I think people mostly fuck off to the Overworld or another Earth or start going really low profile after a while?"

"Or they're in hibernation from being dead."

"Or die and don't go public again when they come back, that too, yeah."

"People just live in the Overworld full time? Are there advantages to that I'm not seeing?"

"You haven't seen much of it yet have you~"

"Not much, no..."

"There's whole communities where the Veil doesn't give you any trouble in there."

"I guess if there's actual towns that does sound nice."

"Yeah, especially cause the Veil punching back really sucks."

"What does it do?"

"If you try to post about magic on the internet or something and don't take the hint when people are completely certain it's a hoax, or when your computer breaks, or you like... Fly around in public with a megaphone, or heal everyone you meet, the weird coincidences to keep things quiet stop, and you start feeling awful and getting magically weaker until you take the point."

"We don't know why there is a veil at all, right?"

"Well, the Puchuu party line is that it's an ancient spell, but no."