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It was a good night to check up on things, like friends, youma hotspots, her senshi, and Kay's refrigerator. It was kind of cute that a knight was trying to pretend he had his own Mauvian with that useless bit of fluff and bone he'd gotten from somewhere. Cute and pathetic, proving that first impressions really could get to the core of some people.

Strutting down the street with a chunk of cheese in her mouth, Creedence paused and noted that a basic signature had been staying still for awhile now. Were they slacking? Or...

It took a few leaps to get her there, and she was pretty pleased to see it was one of her senshi that was brooding on the rooftop. She opened her mouth to talk, started to choke on her cheese a little, started to try to quickly eat it until she remembered that subspace was a thing that existed and banished it into the Shadow Realm for later.

Clearing her throat, the Mauvian started again, "Hey! Do you like, need a pep talk?"

Creedence started to move close, but then stopped, looked around, then jumped up to sit on an electrical box. If she was going to impart wisdom, it's way better for the other person to have to look up at her instead of the other way around. "Look at this way, most of them are still doing the same thing as they were half their life ago. Maybe they were like, wimps and whiners about it, and got better? But the work itself hasn't changed."

At least from what she'd learned. It's not like she was there with the vets back when they were sprouts. "But that's just stronger to weaker. It's not like...there's something to be behind on for us. Quotas and stuff are for the evil magical military."

Just in case Andromeda too that in some sort of it's okay to be weak message, Creedence added, "So like, just train the hell up."

Oh she'd been chatting and laughing along with the enemy, huh? Well, if it came up, Creedence would talk up Andromeda's charisma stat and call it diplomacy with the intent to purify. And maybe it even was!

"They're people...well, some are monsters that used to be people? But they still have people brains, even if there's chaos worms inside those brains." Even Creedence didn't know how literally correct that was. "You're feeling unsure? They're gonna be feeling extra unsure, because they like, have to do things that feel bad to most people." She lashed her tail back and forth for a moment. "They might be rethinking their choice, maybe they'll decide to purify back into a normal people brain. That's like, a whole thing. But it can be done, and since you look like a soft healer class sort, they might come to you about it. But it goes both way so don't let them get into the starseed yoinking zone, or tempt you with their oh-so great healthcare program."

The eyeroll was of the full-body variety.

it sounded like Creedence really wouldn't have to worry about that, though. Andromeda was really taking some initiative with being a senshi. She'd probably be ready to go Super soon.

"Chaos. Nobody knows why or how Chaos took down basically all other worlds. Not the ones who have been doing this half their lives, not even the ones who were there a thousand years ago and somehow still stuck it out by themselves." Really, how were those guys not walking skeletons lined with jerky? "And no two that I've heard of so far have been the same. Some sudden, some taking hundreds of years to completely die off. There's like, a lot of mysteries and we don't even know if the lore actually matters anymore."

Ugh, this sprout really had her ion the Exposition Zone, huh? Well, whatever, it was fine. Even if all she has was basically a big huge shrug of an explanation.

"This is like, getting pretty existential. Do you have depression? Or is this an artist thing?" It was probably a newbie thing, and maybe also a veteran thing. Talking to the wrong oldbies could really infect a perfectly good mindset! "Look. No matter what happened before, tomorrow hasn't happened, yet. So that's the why of what you're doing every night."

Slowly, she turned away and gazed up, knowing her form was perfectly silhouetted by the moon. "We are the second chance that's been given to this world. To all worlds." In her head, Creedence was silently deciding which theme music would be swelling in the background right now.

"You should be able to take more people up at a time soon," Creedence was pretty sure, the longer she was near Andromeda. "Once you can bring more people, you can take...those others, with back-up." The cat spoke firmly, laying down the law. "And maybe like, take a look at your world with new eyes next time you're up there. If you had to fight up there, would you do it differently? Are there more ideal locations for a fight? Or for chilling and talking? Places they're more likely to be able to cause problems?" Of course, the world would kick anyone being a punk out, but Andromeda didn't need to know that. She wanted her girl paranoid, not comfy.

"Maybe?" She sounded doubtful. "Most only seem able to be about their personal trauma and eating pizza or whatever." Creedence thought the lore was pretty cool, actually, but in like, a dusty old tome way. Not a cut scene that advances the plot way. "You could ask, though. The mopey dance guy when you awakened was one. All the really weird looking senshi are ancient survivors from other worlds."

Sadly, none of them seemed willing or even able to play the role of Wise Elder.

The cat went quiet as the girl explained her loss, and the different forms the aftermath turned her existence into. Creedence felt, for the first time in her life since awakening her herself, fully flustered and out of her depth. Not even her humans leaving her felt nearly as big and scary as what Andromeda presented, calmly, having clearly been through it, accepted it, and reached a better place. Eventually, she just cleared her throat, "You'll do more. Forsure. Yhere's a whole world riding on your shoulders, and helping out Earth too. But it's good you're not just settling for what's in easy reach?"

Oh clawed, Creedence could sense the formation of an impending BIG GOAL in that question. Time to manage some expectations. "There is also what's basically an Eldritch Goddess and her avatar at the top of their hierarchy. So like, not fix it all. But yeah, you can make the problem smaller like that, and start to starve a b***h out."