We've gone beyond reasonable effort in an attempt to get to her
Seriously? "Beyond reasonable effort" is Mami (and people aren't calling for us to ditch Mami and let her die). We haven't even reached "reasonable effort" yet.
Are we going to do this for every meguca we run into that needs help?
Amusingly, that actually was the intent for a while — when people were still considering the idea of Sabrina saving the world in the abstract, rather than actually having to deal with people's problems. Now, it's just too much trouble.
In any case, connection to school issues is confirmed. Since she's doing poorly even now, either the wish didn't help with that, or these grades are the result of when she turned her power off in order to slow down the grief buildup. Most likely the former, since Homura commented on her not being very good when looking over the papers on her desk.
I'm reminded that we had to deal with another pair of individuals who had to have their magic active 100% of the time: Masami and Hiroko. Probably a somewhat lesser drain, given that they held out for several months — though if "holding your entire body together with telekinesis" is a
lesser drain, whatever Ono is doing is just crazy (or she's just that weak). However they were also rather hostile to Sabrina — or at least, Masami was; only Hiroko's assistance really smoothed things over. We don't have a handholding assistant in the matter, this time.
At the moment we're basically at exactly the same point as before the update, but with confirmation of my own speculation regarding the connection to school issues. Can't use the approach I suggested anymore, though, since it's no longer Sabrina putting together clues, it's just reading what was laid out in front of her in the snooping.
We can still approach directly or indirectly; we can still use timestop or not; privacy question is moot; and there's the ever-present question of how to actually broach the discussion.
With the amount of anger at Ono permeating the thread, I don't know that I'd trust Sabrina to do a decent job of talking to her. It's
possible, but it's also very easy for it to start going very badly. Body language and unspoken disdain (implicit effects from the state of the thread, and thus not easily overruled by a vote) could easily undermine any spoken words.
Any vote will have to compensate for her instinctive behavior, then.
