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Bella moves. It's uneventful. She's not thrilled with the rain.
New kid shows up at the high school the next day. Hello, the high school. Hello, the students in the high school.
Hello, Jessica.
Jessica's very talkative. It's almost hypnotic.
"So what's Arizona like?"
"Well, sunnier."
"I bet! Wow, have you ever seen snow before?"
"On TV."
"Ha ha ha! Oh man is everybody really tan? Do you hang out at the pool all year round ogling boys?"
"I'm a little too gay to ogle boys."
"Oh! Oh wow. Okay. So um, I know this is a really small town, but guess what?" says Jessica.
"What?" asks Bella.
"We actually have a lesbian here! HEY SOLVEI!" Jessica hollers across the entire cafeteria.
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onceandforall
onceandforall
"And she wasn't a puella magi, which suggests that it's not something like 'people who can make wishes are immune'."
thisbrokenworld
"Yeah. Although for all I know Stasya could have made a wish and just didn't for some reason. There aren't good records of what she was like as a teenager and Ghyslaine's kind of a biased source."
onceandforall
"Yeah. But Ghys might keep tabs on its whereabouts, so probably shouldn't ask it to come running every time we think of something. Maybe 'if the answers to these questions shake out right I know what I'm wishing' as a threshold unless we already have the furball around."
onceandforall
"Did I thank you for getting her to fix me? I don't remember if I thanked you. Thank you."
onceandforall
And eventually they make candy. And Bella drives... Solvei... home.
And school begins the next morning as usual.
gloriousdawn
Solvei doesn't skip any classes, and she hands out treats at lunch just like any other day.
But when the fudge is all gone, she vanishes mysteriously.
She wants a quiet place to sit and think.
There's a niche between two wings of a building that should suit. Unlikely for anyone to find her there. She tucks herself into the very back, sits against a wall in the deepest available shadow, wraps her arms around her knees, and closes her eyes.
And, outwardly still and silent, she retreats to her imagination for a chat.
The inward Solvei crosses her arms and looks at the inward other-self. "Okay, Sis. Down to business. What do you want?"
But when the fudge is all gone, she vanishes mysteriously.
She wants a quiet place to sit and think.
There's a niche between two wings of a building that should suit. Unlikely for anyone to find her there. She tucks herself into the very back, sits against a wall in the deepest available shadow, wraps her arms around her knees, and closes her eyes.
And, outwardly still and silent, she retreats to her imagination for a chat.
The inward Solvei crosses her arms and looks at the inward other-self. "Okay, Sis. Down to business. What do you want?"
thisbrokenworld
"Well," she says wryly, "let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. I want Ghyslaine dead. Except not really, that's just the only way I can think of to achieve what I actually want, which is Ghyslaine unable to fuck with me."
gloriousdawn
"Yeah. I think we're going to have to make that Priority One," says Solvei. "But I'm sure we can manage to sneak something else in there. Thoughts?"
thisbrokenworld
"Ask if we can kill Ghys and bring you back with the same wish," she suggests. "That gets us Ghys dead, you alive, and a whole extra wish."
gloriousdawn
In their imagination, Solvei nods consideringly. "Yeah. Or if we can figure out a superpower that is useful for both murder and non-murder. Some kind of 'killing things with our mind', but what kind of killing things specifically? Or maybe that's not the right direction at all - how does magical girl power work exactly? Could we get some kind of magic-stealing power—? The positive applications there are admittedly limited, but..."
thisbrokenworld
"Ask more about how magic works," she says, nodding. "Ways we can maybe mess with it. Even if it's just like 'kill Ghys and steal all her magic power forever' that still leaves us with all her magic power forever, that's better than just having our own."
gloriousdawn
"And we should definitely go over Bella's list of helpful wishes and furball questions with her."
A shadow falls over her. It belongs to Jack.
"Hi, Solvei. What're you doing out here by yourself?" wonders Jack, leaning over her. He has a lot of himself to lean with.
gloriousdawn
And Solvei is very short and also sitting down. All in all there is a considerable degree of loom going on here.
"Minding my own business," she answers. "It's a fun hobby. I recommend it."
...and maybe that was not, strictly speaking, the best thing she could possibly have said.
"Minding my own business," she answers. "It's a fun hobby. I recommend it."
...and maybe that was not, strictly speaking, the best thing she could possibly have said.