"Honestly I kinda started bailing on school once I became a magical girl.  I mean, I wasn't exactly studious before, but."

"I'm hoping to get a mobile enough job that I can spend my days hunting witches while still affording to eat. A writing gig like Mallory's would actually be ideal, but to compete with everyone else looking for writing work I'll want an associate's."

"My school lets me do mixed in-person and distance learning, it's awesome, I get to spend Tuesdays and Thursdays hunting since online classes take so much less time."

"I talked my parents into homeschooling me - well, letting me self-school more like - but I remember enough of middle school to sympathize."

Tobi laughs.  "Sounds about right.  I kinda cheated at the job thing, though.  I wished to win the lottery."  She grins a bit sheepishly.  "I'm still coasting on that."

"Oh, wow, that's brilliant, how come I didn't think of that?"

She laughs.

"I'm glad I made the wish I did, but, yeah, straight-up money's probably more useful than most things."

"Yeah, it helps with the magical girl thing if you don't need to worry about holding down a job."

"I can imagine."

There's not much else to say or much time left in the meeting; soon the group heads out to spar.  Tobi bows out and heads back to her hotel, so it's just the usual suspects.  Sparring proceeds.  Afterwards, the group manages to track down and slay a relatively weak witch - no match, yet again, for a unified squad five strong.

Magical girls head home.

"We might want to start splitting up into teams, nights we can't find a big witch right away, the witches are getting almost too easy. I'm slightly worried about not having enough grief seeds to go around..." she remarks to Kaylee on the drive back.

"Sounds like a good idea to me.  We usually do okay just the two of us on our Friday hunts."

"Yeah. Those first few witches definitely were worth going up against as a team, especially since we were all new to each other, but nowadays it feels less important?"

She nods.  "What do you think, Mallory?"

"I think you girls are definitely ready for splitting up some, if the team agrees."

"We'll bring it up more formally at the next meeting?"

"Works for me."

"'Kay."

Eventually the car arrives at Kaylee's house; she gets out and says "See you Monday!" to Lianne, and heads inside.

"See you!"

And home. (Where the rest of her weekend passes incredibly boringly. She hates being grounded).

The group agrees to split up, Alex and Sophie in one team, Kaylee and Lianne in another, Taylor finally wheedling Mal into taking her into a familiar. The fights go well enough, and they depart in high spirits.