- Oh, I didn't mean that all Witches have german-ish names now, of course - They're just lots more who do, compared to before. And the lairs of lost dreams thing seems to be something most Witches automatically seem to know how to create now, for whatever reason...
[Homura stared at him, then.]
...Lairs of lost dreams...Wait a minute - You mean to say Witches creating Witch Barriers is a recent innovation?
[Eight shook his head.]
- Well, it wasn't at all unheard of, even back then, but it wasn't something that happened practically automatically, either. They usually needed some time to figure out how to do that, and a lot of them never did produce any Labyrinths, at all.
[At the stable where Kyoko's horse lives]
[Kyoko smiled at the horse, then, and slowly reached out, a cube of sugar in her hand. The horse stared at her, and then at her hand, but eventually ate it.]
...Did you miss me?
[The horse wuffled, then, and put it's face on her shoulder.]
- Awww, you did, didn't you!
[And then, she turned back toward the old man.]
...Hey, Ojii-chan - I got a friend who says I can keep my horse at her place, if I wanted to. She's got a big pasture and a stable and everything, and...
- Huh, really?
[The old man said with a smile - And that was when he turned away, and began to cough.]
...Hey, Jii-chan, you OK?
[The old man kept on coughing for a while. Kyoko-Ophelia's eyes narrowed when she realized he was coughing up blood on his handkerchief.]
- Do you want me to call a doctor?
[The old man swallowed some medicines with a sigh, then, and sat down on the ground.]
...Naah, never mind, girl - I've been to the doctors, and they've done all they can do, already.
[And then he looked up at her with a sigh.]
- It's probably a good thing you came over, actually - The doctors said I only have an year or so left at best, and I have no idea how to find anybody to take care of all the animals here...
[Kyoko looked around the pasture, then, thinking. The old man was taking care of her horse, an old pony, and and about ten cats and dogs, if she was remembering things correctly.]
[And that was when an idea struck her. Maybe she could just move everybody - her horse and the old man and the pony and the other pets - into Sayaka-Oktavia's mini-world, eventually! She'd have to ask Saya-Okty's permission first, of course, but they had plenty of room, she was pretty sure.]
[But as for now...]
Hey, Jii-chan! Let me rub your back for you, OK?
[And then, she sighed a bit. She didn't think healing other people had ever been a thing she was particularly good at, even when she'd been a - a what? A normal Magical Girl?]
[...Were they any such things as normal Magical Girls? Well, whatever.]
[She tried to push herself back into Puella Magi mode as far as she could, and then visualized her magic powers floating into the old man's body, making it easier for him to breath and healing what was wrong with him. Soft and fluffy was the key, right?]
< Sickness sickness go away, make Jii-chan genki again! >
[She chanted in Witchspeak as she made the magic float into his body, and then sighed. Oi, come on, she was trying to get into Puella Magi mode now, or that was the idea, anyway.]
[The old man blinked for a couple of moments, and then, he started to cough a lot, coughing up even more blood and plegm onto his handkerchief. Kyoko-Ophelia looked at him in alarm - She hadn't made things worse by accident, right?]
[And then, the old man took a deep breath. And then another deep breath, and another deep breath after that.]
...What are you doing? It got easier to breath, all of a sudden!
[Kyoko-Ophelia, in the meanwhile, was staring at the old man's aura. Was it just her, or had Genjirou Jiichan's aura just started to turn slightly Familiar-ish around the edges?]
Re: The continuation of Path 3
[Eight paused a little, then.]
- Oh, I didn't mean that all Witches have german-ish names now, of course - They're just lots more who do, compared to before. And the lairs of lost dreams thing seems to be something most Witches automatically seem to know how to create now, for whatever reason...
[Homura stared at him, then.]
...Lairs of lost dreams...Wait a minute - You mean to say Witches creating Witch Barriers is a recent innovation?
[Eight shook his head.]
- Well, it wasn't at all unheard of, even back then, but it wasn't something that happened practically automatically, either. They usually needed some time to figure out how to do that, and a lot of them never did produce any Labyrinths, at all.
[At the stable where Kyoko's horse lives]
[Kyoko smiled at the horse, then, and slowly reached out, a cube of sugar in her hand. The horse stared at her, and then at her hand, but eventually ate it.]
...Did you miss me?
[The horse wuffled, then, and put it's face on her shoulder.]
- Awww, you did, didn't you!
[And then, she turned back toward the old man.]
...Hey, Ojii-chan - I got a friend who says I can keep my horse at her place, if I wanted to. She's got a big pasture and a stable and everything, and...
- Huh, really?
[The old man said with a smile - And that was when he turned away, and began to cough.]
...Hey, Jii-chan, you OK?
[The old man kept on coughing for a while. Kyoko-Ophelia's eyes narrowed when she realized he was coughing up blood on his handkerchief.]
- Do you want me to call a doctor?
[The old man swallowed some medicines with a sigh, then, and sat down on the ground.]
...Naah, never mind, girl - I've been to the doctors, and they've done all they can do, already.
[And then he looked up at her with a sigh.]
- It's probably a good thing you came over, actually - The doctors said I only have an year or so left at best, and I have no idea how to find anybody to take care of all the animals here...
[Kyoko looked around the pasture, then, thinking. The old man was taking care of her horse, an old pony, and and about ten cats and dogs, if she was remembering things correctly.]
[And that was when an idea struck her. Maybe she could just move everybody - her horse and the old man and the pony and the other pets - into Sayaka-Oktavia's mini-world, eventually! She'd have to ask Saya-Okty's permission first, of course, but they had plenty of room, she was pretty sure.]
[But as for now...]
Hey, Jii-chan! Let me rub your back for you, OK?
[And then, she sighed a bit. She didn't think healing other people had ever been a thing she was particularly good at, even when she'd been a - a what? A normal Magical Girl?]
[...Were they any such things as normal Magical Girls? Well, whatever.]
[She tried to push herself back into Puella Magi mode as far as she could, and then visualized her magic powers floating into the old man's body, making it easier for him to breath and healing what was wrong with him. Soft and fluffy was the key, right?]
< Sickness sickness go away, make Jii-chan genki again! >
[She chanted in Witchspeak as she made the magic float into his body, and then sighed. Oi, come on, she was trying to get into Puella Magi mode now, or that was the idea, anyway.]
[The old man blinked for a couple of moments, and then, he started to cough a lot, coughing up even more blood and plegm onto his handkerchief. Kyoko-Ophelia looked at him in alarm - She hadn't made things worse by accident, right?]
[And then, the old man took a deep breath. And then another deep breath, and another deep breath after that.]
...What are you doing? It got easier to breath, all of a sudden!
[Kyoko-Ophelia, in the meanwhile, was staring at the old man's aura. Was it just her, or had Genjirou Jiichan's aura just started to turn slightly Familiar-ish around the edges?]