"Thanks. I was kinda panicked the whole time, but I think she was mostly just being paranoid about us. Makes sense, living next to that other girl."

"Guess we'll try a different city next time.  How are things on the home front?"

"Things have been fairly boring around here."

Taylor arrives, then, running and out of breath. "Sorry I'm late guys!" Then, after greeting everyone, "Guess what! I wished, I'm a magical girl now!"

" - you are?"  She doesn't sound like this is wholly good news.  (Suddenly she remembers telling Lianne the same thing, and the look on Lianne's face.)

"Yeah! Kyubey said you have higher potential when you're younger, and I was reading about this horrible disease and got really sad about it, so I used your idea and wished someone would discover a formula for a vaccine that's super cheap and stores easily! The wish went through, but Kyubey says that's only because I have a lot of potential."

Mallory is silent for a few moments, then, "Well, you can train with us, but I'd rather you not be going on hunts until you're older. Sixteen, maybe. I can give you grief seeds until then, though."

"My mom won't let me stay out that late yet anyways..."

" - I think that was a really good use of your wish, though, personally," Kaylee says.

"Thanks!"

"You're welcome."

"Since Kaylee and Lianne are planning on doing more scouting for other girls to join, do we want to practice fighting other girls more, since it is a risk?"

"Yeah, there's a small handful of unfriendly types in my area."

"That sounds good to me.  One on one, or split up into teams?"

"Both would probably be good for practice. You all can also try teaming up against me."

"Oh, yeah, good point - if we're the only big magical girl alliance around and we scout in groups, we're probably gonna run up against more powerful solo girls more often than anything else."

"And unfortunately unethical girls tend to accumulate a lot of personal power."

"More than - ethical ones?"

"Farming familiars is a good way of getting a lot of grief seeds quickly, and the increased density of powerful witches allows more practice, is the main thing."

"One of the girls we met talked about farming, I wasn't sure if it meant - the obvious thing, or not."

"It does. Intentionally allowing familiars to escape and live and to eat people, so they grow into larger witches."

She nods, and sighs.  "That's.  Another problem, then.  For us to work on."

"We need to find some way of arresting girls like that," Lianne mutters.

"Once - if - we eventually go public, I'm sure laws will be passed, but in the meantime - could an ordinary prison even hold us?"

"Not if we were highly determined to escape, no."