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>Gravity!
...and a narrative kind of gravity! The Moon's gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out and create high tides. No; the Earth pulling the Moon all around it is a much more fitting pattern!
Ӝ Miharu: So! HMMM....
Dumbbell tilts her head sideways, perhaps wondering if Miharu, who is looking at the ceiling, realizes that she said all of that out loud. Silently, the tiny girl copies the story-monger, even the posture, as both look at the rings of steel hanging over their heads like the fabled sword of Damocles. Watching that crudely hanged thing about to leave a hole where she is gives Miharu some ideas.
Ӝ Miharu: Maybe my magic has to do with gravity! My wish is related to space, and I've been... uh... sucked into some weird shenanigans lately?
Dumbbell: Sucked into... Hmm, I think I get where you are coming from.
Ӝ Miharu: Yeah! Gravity!
Miharu looks at Dumbbell eagerly.
Ӝ Miharu: What do you think, Coordinator-chan? Is it gravity?
Dumbbell: To be pulled by gravity and to pull things by gravity may have different meanings, but both ideas are related to the moon. I think it makes sense.
Ӝ Miharu: It does, doesn't it? So how do I use gravity magic?
Dumbbell: We still aren't sure that that's your magic, Miharu. Why don't you try transforming first? Some magical powers can only be used while transformed.
Ӝ Miharu: But I've been attracting weird stuff all the time already?
Dumbbell: That is true. Try manipulating gravity then.
Fully super serious, Miharu raises a hand over her handmade Mr. Purrs-a-lot puppet and- focuses! She imagines it rising under her fingers as if being abducted by an UFO. She imagines the gravity breaking, the void formed in space as even air is pushed aside, the cold vacuum, the rift in space. Gritting her teeth, she channels all of her focus onto bringing her imagination into reality.
Dumbbell gasps; but that's because Miharu's face is too red.
Dumbbell: Miharu, dear, um, I think you can stop now.
Ӝ Miharu: Is-it-moving?!
Dumbbell: I don't think so. No.
Miharu relaxes so fast that she ends up dizzy.
Ӝ Miharu: ...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Dumbbell: Maybe... you've been using your magic unconsciously. It's actually very common among new Magical Girls, and we even have some veterans that still can't reign their in, even after all these years.
Ӝ Miharu: If I fall unconscious now tell me if I did magic.
Dumbbell: I don't think that needs to happen.
