Mami is coming off of a panic attack that Sabrina had left her just like she had feared. That was NOT the case, but Mami is still feeling that pain. Right now, she needs the reassurance that Sabrina is here and isn't going anywhere. That reassurance comes from physical presence, not from words. And (historically speaking) Sabrina has been pretty bad with words anyway. My thought here is that silence is powerful in a good way because it reinforces our presence without using any distracting words.
Being physically close is the primary thing. Hugging if that's what Mami wants.
You may equate magic and grief (with good reason because the grief is controlled by Sabrina's magic), but Mami does not equate the two. Mami is experienced with magic, so it isn't dangerous experimentation for her, instead it's an opportunity show off something that she's good at.
I don't think that Mami is in danger of having a "she only wants me for my skills" reaction. Mami knows that we care about her and want to be with her. Mami isn't (primarily) worried that we'll abandon her intentionally, she's worried that we will be taken away by circumstances outside of our control (like what happened in the past 30 minutes). There's not really anything that we can say to Mami to address this fear. All we can do is to show her that we're here for her now.
I quite agree. In fact, going to see Megane together with Mami is my first choice. I just don't expect that it will be possible to do so, so I included Homura checking up on her as a contingency. What I absolutely do not want to do is nothing, which is what all of the other votes do.
If Mami is going to come with us, we have to talk to one of them first. To be quite honest, I'm talking to Mami first because I expect that she'll say no. The whole expedition is primarily for Homura's sake (Homura needs to steal guns, while Mami can make her own), and we're mostly just tagging along because we want to hang out with Homura. And if Mami does want to come, I don't think that Homura would have a problem with it.
Yes. I want spend some time looking into this clue. Feathers is related to what is probably the greatest threat that Sabrina will ever face. So yes, I do think that this is important.
I will add the changes. What other changes would you suggest?
Why would Mami imagine that terrible things would come from practicing magic? Magic is something she's good at. She knows how it works and has even had some experience with teaching it to someone else. The worrying part is all this strange grief stuff that she has no experience with.
Why would you expect that? She's limpeting on us. If we asked her if she'd like to come to the surface of the sun with us, she'd be hard pressed to say no.
...because she saw us almost go black when we tried to steal a familiar, and zone out for half an hour just now, and a while back she saw us almost hatch a witch on top of ourselves?
Note that the feather doesn't feel witchy, so I'm not too worried about it. And even if the feather is dangerous in and of itself, then we're taking precautions to keep it away from us by only touching it with grief. If it reacts poorly with grief, then I don't know what we can do apart from just leaving it alone.
I agree that "some time" is too vague and could take too long, but "a moment" seems too short. Changed to "a minute".
The alternative is to skip to the part where we go home and drink tea and eat supper (if she doesn't want to practice magic then visiting Ono would also be out).
Mami already knows about Walpurgisnacht. Which is the reason that Homura is stocking up on weapons. Mami might disapprove of stealing, and she might be surprised by the quantity of weapons that Homura takes, but she wouldn't freak out.
It would be nice to examine the feather on our own with all of the sensing equipment that we can come up with, but we don't really have any opportunity to do that. Unless we do it while Mami is watching, which I don't want to do right now.
Mami already said that she wanted to practice magic. The logical next step would be to ask if that's still what she wants. Although you do have a good point - I will add an open-ended question to see if there's anything else that Mami wants to do before heading home.
In Mami's mind, these things are probably all related to grief and witches, not to magic.
See above.
Keep them, they make sense and the boone vote is worse for their absence ie: not actually saying anything. The boone and sereg objections...don't make much sense.
We've got grief floating about right now. If we encase the feather and pick it up that way,
For Mami, it would be a question of going on a "shopping trip" before spending the rest of the evening with Sabrina, or skipping the "shopping trip" and just spending the rest of the evening with Sabrina. She would be spending the whole time with us in either case, so it's just a question of whether or not she wants to go mess with some yakuza, and I suspect that the answer is "no". But if the answer is "yes", then that's good too. She can come with.
I think that picking it up remotely with grief is sufficiently cautious.
We already told her that we were going out with Homura. Not telling her what we are doing would be playing with her emotions in a different way. Personally, I'm inclined to think being open about the "shopping trip" is the best policy here. Mami already knows that Walpurgisnacht is serious business, so she should be fine with Homura picking up some firepower to fight against it.
Did you miss Gadjo's point?
