♐ April 14th [ video of sorts; stalker community is in ur computers ]

[stillneedawish]

[ what you can see isn't a room or even a street, as is the community's usual ways with its privacy invasions; no, instead you're getting the view of... a word document? whatever's on Madoka's computer screen tonight, it's clear the community thinks it should be seen and has helpfully activated a skype-esque screen-sharing function to that effect. ]

- leave the city?
↳ I can't leave the others behind
↳ what about Mama Papa and Tatsuya?
↳ if they're in this city they're probably in other cities as well

- escape to another world until after April?
↳ no Incubators (I don't think they can world-hop?)
↳ cons: see above
↳ that's so obvious I bet Homura-chan already tried it anyway

- use my wish to outsmart them somehow? |

[ there's a long silence with only the blinking of the cursor after that sentence appears, and then Madoka's voice can be heard mumbling "I'm nowhere near smart enough for that," before she promptly deletes it.

talk to her? ]

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[bag_has_snapped]

Madoka...?

[Leaving her world? Incubators? What is this all about?]

[stillneedawish]

... Hi, Tsubomi-chan.

This probably all looks a little weird to you, doesn't it?

[bag_has_snapped]

It does... is something wrong? Is it okay if I know?

[It's incredibly over her head, but they were friends, right? She'd want to try to help her in someway!]

[stillneedawish]

Ah-- well, I'm already filling in a lot of new people about it tonight anyway, so I guess I might as well since we're already friends, right? Mm, give me a moment just to lock this thread...

[ locked ]

[stillneedawish]

... A lot of this is really scary, and I don't fully understand it all myself, so I'm sorry if my explanation's jumbled or anything. Where do I start... um, well you already know that magical girls exist on my world too. We call them Puella Magi here, and the enemies they fight against are called witches. Witches are... kind of like monsters that cause things like suicides and murders to happen so that they can feed off people's despair. Only, the problem that hardly anyone knows is that sooner or later, unless something happens to them first, all Puella Magi turn into witches.

There's another girl my age, a Puella Magi called Homura, who has power over time, and she keeps rewinding time on our world back every month, so it's only ever been March or April here for... well, for a long time now. I think she's doing it to try and stop something terrible to do with the witches or the magical girl system from happening to me, but... um, well, I don't think it's working, and I can't remember anything from the timelines before this one, anyway. So... basically, what I'm trying to do now is figure out if we could try something new to solve our problem, but I'm not really getting very far.

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[bag_has_snapped]

Wha...?!

[She knew about the Puella Magi - she met those like Mami and Oriko. She knew about the witches, but didn't know what they did - it made them sound even worse than the Desertians she faces and she knew the Desert Apostles wouldn't stoop that low to pull something like that.

But, what worries her is that Madoka's been stuck in some sort of time loop because of one person trying to protect her.]

...that's not fair. Not fair at all. You... anyone shouldn't have to deal with something like that! There has to be something we... a-any of us can do!

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[stillneedawish]

Oh, well, it's not so bad for me! I mean, of course it's never really alright. And I get really scared a lot. But at least I get to forget about all the terrible things that happen.

... but well, you're right. I don't want my world to be stuck doing this anymore, and I don't want Homura-chan to keep rewinding time for the rest of her life just for my sake. Especially when I'm not sure if that's going to be enough anymore, but. I'm really, really grateful that you want to help, Tsubomi-chan. Really, I am! That makes me really happy.

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[bag_has_snapped]

Madoka... don't worry, we'll all figure out something. Something that could work for everyone. But, the question is "what"? What could...?

[and, then, idea!]

Wait, I got an idea! In my world, there's the Great Heart Tree. Another Cure from my time and I have been trying to heal it and from what I understand, after collecting enough what are called "Heart Seeds", a miracle would happen! One already occurred, so we still have to collect more for another! Maybe that'll help!

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[stillneedawish]

A miracle... do you think it would work even for something from another world? Don't you need something as big as that for your own world?

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[bag_has_snapped]

I... I don't know. A-And I don't know if we do or not. Maybe the next miracle is just for my world...

B-But it doesn't mean that we can't try, right?

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[stillneedawish]

Um, right! No, of course you're right. Anything's worth a shot if there's a chance it might work!

But are you definitely sure about this? Something like a miracle... that's really big. Are you sure you're okay with giving something like that away?

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[bag_has_snapped]

I am! But...

[Oh, now what would the others think? Or Yuri? Or even her grandma? Blowing something so big for just one person. That's Tsubomi's one major flaw - getting so ahead of herself for one person that she doesn't realize it would hurt others.]

...I... I'll have to talk to some of the others. See what they think. I almost did something stupid, didn't I?

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[stillneedawish]

Oh no, it's okay. You were just trying to help! But you're right, you probably should ask everyone in your world about it first, just to make sure. And I'll ask around too to see if a miracle from one world really could affect a different one. It'd be a shame to waste it, right?