They're dating!!!! Kaylee has a girl that she's dating!!!! She hadn't ever guessed it would feel this great! She spends the whole weekend abubble with glee. Lianne doesn't want everyone to know yet so she doesn't immediately tell everybody in the entire world about it, but she sits next to Lianne during the magical girl meetings, and spars with her, and hunts with her, and they are dating!!!!
"He was kind of - he was really - it's hard to explain, exactly... looking back, he was really... pushy, about getting us to wish. I might have waited longer if he hadn't been so..." she trails off.
Nod. "He didn't explain anything at all to me, and waited until I was in the middle of an active crisis."
"Whoof. I'd introduce you to mine - he was more up front about a lot of stuff - but he's usually keeping an eye on Tag. Do you all work with this one, have you been keeping track...?"
"I work with a different one. He's more - straightforward, and better at actually answering questions."
Taylor pipes up with, "I definitely work with a different one, mine's really nice! And he's not as down on the team as y'all's, he thinks it'll be good for me!"
Sophie nods, says she has the same Kyubey as Taylor.
Alex looks thoughtful. "I don't really talk to my Kyubey much. He tells me about opportunities like this, but other than that we go our own ways. I think he's an older Kyubey though."
She looks thoughtful. "No, though that's certainly a good idea. They might have something to contribute."
There's a lull, and Kaylee takes the opportunity to ask: "Tobi, you said you wished at fourteen, right? Do you think you were - too young?"
She looks thoughtful. "Dunno. It's not the youngest I've ever heard of, definitely, and I don't think I regret it."
"Well, there you go. Some Kyubeys I've heard will go as young as ten or eleven, which I'd say definitely is too young, but - I think people underestimate kids sometimes."
"...It's young. I wished at that age, and so did my best friend, and we - weren't even slightly prepared. Kids should get to be kids, and - kids don't have the best control over their magic."
" - shit. Are you - do you still work with the Kyubey who - wished you - that young?"
"He's the same one I work with now. He wasn't like Lianne and Kaylee's, he told us about most of the dangers upfront, we just didn't listen."
She nods. "Shit. I'm - sorry." She doesn't ask about the best friend. She can fill in the blanks.
"I don't think they mean anything bad by it, but - they're zealous about fighting witches, and according to my Kyubey, pre-adolescents in their species are actually able to be trusted with magic, so I don't think they're properly modeling how youth impacts humans."
"That - that's horrible. ...What happened?"
(She's not so good at filling in the blanks.)
"My friend, Tess, didn't have good control of their magic, and - events happened, and they fell into a despair spiral and lost control."