And then it...is a bauble. "Huh."

The creature's tail swishes.

"Can one of you please explain what's happening."

"You--you died."

"What?"

"You died and it was--the worst thing, ever--and that thing showed up and said I could bring you back--so I did--oh, Edie--" and then there is more crying.

"You, explain," she instructs the fluff, hugging her crying sister.

You died, but your sister was a potential magical girl and used her wish to restore you. You may make a wish too and be a magical girl like her if you like.

"How do magical girls work? How does wishing work?"

The happiness of a wish granted creates a soul gem full of magical charge, which can be used for many things and recharged with the seeds of defeated witches. I grant wishes that are offered to me and those who wish them become magical girls! The wishes can be anything.

"How do the seeds of defeated witches recharge magical girls? How does wishing create magical girls?"

If a witch's grief seed is touched to a magical girl's soul gem, the seed absorbs the tainted dimness of the gem and the gem brightens again. When the seed is full, I can take it away; otherwise it might hatch into a new witch. Wishes I grant transform human happiness into magical energy and that forms the soul gem, which is what makes a magical girl what she is.

"Where do witches come from?"

Witches hatch out of grief seeds if they are filled and left around, or witches that are still alive can bud if they grow large enough.

"So they just--reproduce like sponges or amoeba or whatever? When did they start?"

It was before recorded history!

"Why is magical girl magic compatible with witches? Is there anything else like witches that magical girls can use?"

All magic runs on emotion, and in that sense it's all the same. Girls can donate magic to each other, or a wish could refill a gem that already existed if the wisher chose.

"Huh. What happens if your gem goes empty?"

Charge is necessary to use any magic.

"But it's not, like, critical, if Emily's emptied she could call me and I could spend my wish refilling it for her?"

Your wish could restore her if she ran out of charge, yes.

"Okay, I'm holding onto that for safekeeping. What are common usages of magic?"

Conjuring weapons to fight witches, healing, moving and resisting damage better than normal humans, transmuting things, most things people think of are possible with more or less magic!

"Ooh. If Emily had been a magical girl already, could she have brought me back without making a wish?"