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That shouldn't happen should your wish hold, correct?

And yet it seems you've lied to her.

[And then there's the issue of Sayaka sleeping on her couch...]

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I thought about it a lot, but in the end decided that even though our soul gems do not darken here... even with my wish changing what happens back home...

It would still hurt her. [ or she just wouldn't believe them. ]

Sayaka-chan was doing better here, she was... acting like her old self again. We decided it was for the best that she didn't know.

[ yes, well. you invited that onto yourself, didn't you? ]

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Do you think she will always be doing better? There are more ways to be hurt.

[Mami Tomoe's appearance has done it's damage. She's watched Sayaka's hope shred before her eyes, knows that isn't true, knows she won't be.]

She will learn eventually, and, I imagine, she will know you lied.

You should think of what you've done. She may soon have need of you.

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I don't know. I can't watch her... I just can't watch her go through that again.

[ she knows too, what Mami's appearance would mean for Sayaka. she always imagined being capable of picking up those shredded pieces together, with Kyouko-chan and even Homura-chan.

but to tell Sayaka the fate she was going to face, the same one that had repeated itself time and time again? her hope would not just shred, it would be utterly annihilated. ]

I've been preparing for it for a long time. The day it happens, if she found out here somehow or if she went home and came back... came back like Kyouko-chan did with the knowledge of it.

Wh-what do you mean?

hhhhhhhh

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There are more consequences to this knowledge, to not having it. Do you not think it changes how she thinks of the rest of you?

[Madoka doesn't have to say what she knows will happen to Sayaka; enough of it carries in her tone.

Oriko pauses a moment.]

Do you know where she is?

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I'm scared. I'm scared that she will hate me, but more than that- I'm scared she'll hate herself.

[ a hiccup and Madoka hurriedly rubs at her eyes, but the question gives her pause and when she speaks the confusion is clear; ]

I-I know she's upset after seeing Mami-san earlier, so... I thought she might be training like she usually does. [ but, this phone call didn't come out of nowhere. there was a reason- ] Is... is she with you?

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I imagine she idolizes you. I wonder what she'd think of your solution.

[Oriko sighs. There's no need to be evasive.] She's sleeping now.

Something happened with Mami Tomoe. [What? the statement asks, implicitly.]

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[ idolize, huh? the thought just makes the whole situation hurt more but she tries to cover any sign of this by sighing. ]

As long as she's okay. [ and that's really all that mattered. ]

M-mm, did you know her too? [ she remembers seeing Mami from time to time at school in that timeline that ended with a witches' barrier appearing in their school but beyond that... she knew nothing of what happened to their mentor. ] But- ah, Sayaka-chan really looks up to Mami-san but she doesn't really... remember us.

[precludes]

You might say that.

I see. I presume that she encountered some trouble. [Dead, it seems, or something that passes for it.

It seems, really - and her tone implies it - that there's a lot Sayaka Miki doesn't know, the way one small lie can snowball into a mountain.]