That's it. "It's magic. It's wearing off but it'll be a while." [She huffs again.] There are normal people in Sunset Falls who knew that much, but they're around magic all the time....

[Mayuko decides to risk it for the energy biscuit. A narrow dark tendril, sans sparkles, creeps from the back of her calf, down her leg, along the roof and over the edge.

While she's doing that, she's pulled out a notepad and started writing. There was one address in her contingency letter that might be useful.]

I'm from Tokyo. It's funny because you're speaking English, right? I can understand you as if you were speaking Japanese. Not just you, either, everyone. And everyone's understood me.