[ Oh gosh.

Is this appropriate conversation material around Romeo?! Madoka isn't so sure of it, so she's quick to answer her friend first. Maybe he'll get distracted by it enough that he doesn't think too hard about this whole cutting strings and death business.. ]

Um, metaphorical is like.. like a saying! Like when you say 'a watched pot never boils'-- eventually it'll boil, of course, so it's not literal!

[ Did that work.

Please let that have worked to distract him. ]