Forks does not really seem like the place for... An escaped exotic pet of some kind? Whatever it is, it's fluffy and cute seems remarkably clean, with long purple (dyed?) tail and ears. Looks sort of rabbity. It's been hanging out around town for a couple of days, near the school for the most part. It never seems to get wet, either.
It's very cute, with energetic, puppy-like movements and big round eyes. It's watching everyone at the school most afternoons, almost as if looking for someone.
"We don't use them among Puchuu but other magical girls call me Ollie or Fuzzball or Princess or Hey You."
"The Seattle Puchuus work with five magical girls in Washington to take care of monsters, and we know about another dozen or so who keep to themselves more. Potential is pretty rare. Mostly we each focus on one girl, gathering information, scouting out monsters, helping with little errands, and helping her out as much as we can. That's a Puchuu's job, to support magical girls!"
"So those names were from - previous magical girls? How old are you?"
"So what do magical girls... do? Apparently it's not 'be immortal'."
"Oh, they fight monsters and figure out mysteries and develop their magic and help people and keep things nice and peaceful and safe. What do you mean it's not 'be immortal'? Magical girls don't get old either."
"Some of them got hurt and had to go away for a while. Some didn't need help anymore. And some just moved into other worlds or the Overworld."
She pulls into her driveway. "What do you mean go away for a while? What other worlds, what's the Overworld?"
"If magical girls get hurt badly enough they disappear and sleep for a long time. Until someone brings them back or they heal on their own. The Overworld is hard to explain... It's like tunnels and roads holding all the different Earths together. It's not impossible to get around without it, but way easier. But it's also huge and old and we don't really understand it."
"Huh. So - tell me more about the becoming a magical girl process?"
"When you awaken, you'll become a thing-made-of-magic instead of a thing-made-of-matter! You will have two states, transformed and baseline. You'll look the same all the time after that and not get older, and lots of magical girls don't look like adults. When transformed, your costume and weapon appear and you're much stronger and faster and more coordinated and have magic powers. When not transformed, your ordinary clothes reappear and you're pretty close to a normal human again. Making yourself even stronger after the first transformation takes the stronger kinds of magic coins, but growing more skilled is easier than getting more raw power. It takes a few minutes, plenty of time to focus on adjusting the results to your liking, and that's pretty intuitive... As long as you have magic coins to spend, chuu. A lot of the details of how you'll transform are already 'set', barring using magic coins to change them, and I can tell you what'll happen if you don't change anything and what you can change. But magic coins can also be used to increase your abilities and powers, so it's a tradeoff between adjusting things you don't like and getting stronger. It's random for each person, and not in a way you can roll the dice again."
"Are magic coins a currency, or just a - unit of magic input - or what -"
"They're crystal magic given physical form. You can use them to make wishes. And they're also the only real currency of the magical world, if you want favors from magic beings you usually need coins, and you can earn them the same way."
"Gosh, I don't really think you can count them! There's a lot more than just the famous ones like Thor and Ameterasu and Jesus."
"Jesus too? His followers are very big on the monotheism."
"So... what if any relationship do the religions about these deities have to the deities themselves as you know them to exist?"
"Lots of religions are rooted in something real, but it's really hard to tell. Most people don't actually get miracles anymore."
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