'Awwwww!  I didn't know you could purr!'

Purr purr purr!  He hops into her lap.

She giggles.  Pet pet.

'Have you given any more thought to becoming a magical girl yourself?  The world always needs more people to fight back against witches.'

'I'm... not sure,' she says.  '...You mentioned it would be hard to wish for a vaccine?'

'It would.  A wish has to be something you feel strongly about.  It's about hope.  It needs to be something you dream of, deep inside, that you don't think you could ever get on your own.  Most girls wish for something really personal.'

'I do care a lot about helping people and curing diseases, though.'

'I believe you!  But it's not exactly about how much you care, it's about how strongly you feel.  They're different things.  People usually feel more strongly about people and things closer to them.  It's human nature, and it's nothing to be ashamed of, but it does limit the kinds of things it's possible to wish for.'

'Hmm,' she hmms.  '...So to get a good malaria vaccine, you'd go to somewhere where lots of people have lost family and friends to malaria, and ask someone there to wish on that.  Have you ever done anything like that?  Or - other creatures like you?  Is there a name for the kind of creature you are?'

'We're Kyubeys!' he says.  'That's a good idea, and I don't know if any of us have tried it.  But if we went around implementing every idea that good we wouldn't have any time to help magical girls, and then there'd be no one who knew how to fight witches.  One person can't do everything it's worthwhile to do.'

'I guess,' Kaylee says.  'How does wishes getting granted work, anyway?'

'I don't know exactly,' Kyubey says apologetically.  'It's not my job to explain things like that, so I'm not really equipped to do so.'

'Aww, that's okay.'  Scritch scritch.

'Thanks,' he says.  'Is there anything you've thought about wishing for that's more personal than a vaccine?'

She hesitates.

'You can tell me.  I promise I won't laugh.'

She giggles.  'Well, I...'

He waits, politely.

'I was kind of thinking about wishing to be braver,' she says.  'I'm... not sure I'd be brave enough to properly fight witches just on my own.'

'That would be a great wish!'

'Really?  It seems like the sort of thing that would go wrong, somehow.'

'I don't think it would go badly at all!' Kyubey says.  'I don't think you should worry about it.  I wish every magical girl I work with would make a wish like that one.  Wishing to be the kind of person who would make a good magical girl would be perfect.  Do you want to make the contract now?'

'Right now?  I don't know...'

'Sure!  If you wait you might lose your nerve.  You wouldn't want that, would you?'

'I guess not, but... I mean, I'd want to think it over a bit.'