I'm not saying, 'now that you have seen an example of resurrection of the dead orchestrated by obviously evil entities whose ethical opinions are worthless, you should celebrate with lesbianism'! I'm saying that regardless of whether you feel personally inconvenienced or not the argument as presented doesn't hold together. You don't have to, like, care.

That's not what I meant. But okay.

What'd you mean?

I mean that it's really easy to imagine myself deciding there's nothing wrong with it even if there is, just because it'd make me happy. So I want to think about it longer and maybe when I haven't been singing a lot.

That's totally reasonable. Avoiding motivated reasoning is probably important even if the conclusion you want to not be motivated towards is one I happen to like.

Anyway there are people who'd say of course your friend turned into a witch because there was something wrong with her to begin with. Maybe those are the sort of people who throw rocks in your world.

Sounds likely. "Throw rocks" is a metaphor, mostly, sometimes it's yelling and holding up nasty signage, sometimes it's rounding up all the gay people and herding them into death camps, sometimes it's passing laws saying that I'm never allowed to marry anyone I could ever love - we do marriage, just not with a soul part - there's a variety.

We don't do death camps. Is that a thing going on? Do we need to fix that after we've fixed witches?

Historical thing. Although there are some countries where homosexuality is punishable by death they are not being that systematic.

And you don't have the Valar to bring back the dead.

Nope. I want to pry the wish generation mechanic out of the evil aliens' fluffy little cold dead paws.

Good idea.

Thank you, came up with it myself.

She energy blasts some more rocks. She refills the car's gas tank by magic. Gonna see if I can recharge off the recording now.

Good luck.

Thanks.

And she pulls out the video camera and watches the song-and-dance routine.

Yesssssss! It works, it's glowing!

Bella giggles with helpless delight on two counts.

So now you can give them to everybody??

I've got a few options - approach will depend on evil alien reaction and on whether it does anything to witches or just to unwitched girls. But yes, it's pretty trivial to copy and distribute this except in a few places and if I put the effort in I can do it there too.

I'm so glad.

So this does mean you can go home on Raine's wish, unless you just want to stay for some reason.

I don't know. I need to eventually go home. Do you think this is my one shot?

No, Raine'll be there next loop and next and so on unless I somehow really screw up asking her. And even if her wish winds up with her looping too we can find somebody else like her with some looking.

Then I'll stay. If I'm getting in your way I'm happy to spend loops in the forest or something but I want to help and I don't want to go home until you can come with me.

Okay then. I'm pretty sure I can finesse Raine.

Back into the car she hops.