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Astrophyllite looked at her teacup uncertainly, as if it might be poisoned. She'd been lead to believe that all senshi were space invaders and probably out to kill her, and so coming across one with a full tea set set up - who had invited her to her table, even! - was sort of jarring. But... Mintaka (the pretty lady's name was Mintaka) was drinking her tea - so it must be okay! Unless... unless it was tea that was only safe for aliens to drink, like what if all the proteins spiraled the other way? (She had heard about that in chemistry class but wasn't completely sure what it meant.)

"I know a General-King," she volunteered, not yet picking up the teacup. "If you wanted a uniform like mine, we could go talk to him and I'm sure he could do something. My teammate, Kerberos? He was a space invader like you but he's reformed and only wants to protect the earth. He's still sailor, though. I don't know if you'd be allowed to be called Captain."

The lieutenant didn't know Galena, which didn't very much sound like a mineral name - maybe she was like Avalon? - and she shook her head slightly to indicate as much. As for the white moon court... "You're all space invaders just helping the moon queen enslave the earth," she said, repeating by rote what she had learned in her earliest days with the Negaverse. Who had taught her that - Bischofite, right? He hadn't taught her much, but he'd taught her the basics, and that she knew how to take care of herself, and she was indebted to him for that.

"I like knights, though," Astrophyllite conceded. "There's this one, Hvergelmir? She's so pretty. And nice! And smart!" Astrophyllite wanted to be her friend so badly. "And Mr. Gehenna," she added. "He's nice, too. He let me have cinnamon knots, and he got me a pizza just the way I like it!"

Which was probably weird criteria for whether or not you thought someone was your friend. She eyed her teacup again, and this time, picked it up. She supposed she could take one teensy, tiny little sip--

Oh. Hey. That was actually pretty good.

Astrophyllite's face lit up. "Zinkenite, yeah!" she exclaimed. "He's the one who made me the way I am, all strong and stuff!" Even if he'd done it for what she now knew were entirely the wrong reasons, she still owed a debt of gratitude to the General-King. After all, he could have very easily killed her instead - but now she was a proud lieutenant of the negaverse who could jump literally like fifteen feet in one bound and drain energy and talk to spirits using her handy-dandy magical ouija board! Lieutenant Astrophyllite was so much cooler than plain old Gemma Kit Hudson.

"Everyone says that," she said, frowning, and she set down her teacup to tap her chest lightly. "But you have a thing here, in your chest? Your starseed." Honestly, she couldn't believe that Senshi didn't seem to know about this! Maybe it was because they couldn't reach into people and take theirs out like officers could. "Your starseed is like your soul, but all crystalized?" she added, trying to give Mintaka a visual - it wasn't like she had one she could demonstrate with. "And yours is from outer space! So, like, your squishy body bits are all from earth? But they're just a walking around suit for an alien."

She leaned forward, surveying the newly-introduced sweets, and carefully selected a pink macaron that nearly matched her hair. Settling back onto her calves, Astrophyllite industriously set about pulling the halves apart. "Um, no, I don't know anyone from the dark mirror court," she said, "But I've been told that they are not our friends and I should definitely stay away from. And um..."

She wracked her brain, but the name of the knight was definitely not familiar. "No," she said, shaking her head. "I don't know Nysa. Should I?"

"Oh," said Astrophyllite. "I don't... I don't know Osumilite. But I'm assigned to Natron now, and before that I was with Avalon? And Bischofite was my original general..." But bad things had happened to Avalon and Bischofite, and it was probably better not to talk about them.

At Mintaka's mention of the incoming squire, Astrophyllite looked up from the cookie she'd been dutifully knawing on. She could definitely sense them- cold, icy water, a swish of lace, and the sharp tang of tarnish on silver--

And then, she was there.

"WHAT THE s**t IS THIS?" roared Megiddo, landing roughly on the rooftop behind Mintaka. The order and chaos signatures had been standing still far too long for them to be properly fighting, and that was why she'd had to check it out. Of course, when she found Mintaka literally having tea with a lieutenant... Well, that called for a special intervention.

Astrophyllite wailed in fear - this new girl was shouty and angry and everything that ran totally opposite of staying alive. She hopped to her feet, ready to beat a hasty retreat.

Megiddo pushed past Mintaka, grabbed the edge of the table, and, with a mighty heave, flipped it. Tea and crumpets and saucers and whatever the ******** else was part of the senshi's setup went flying. "You see this s**t? I told you to stop this s**t."

Astrophyllite wailed again and took off, disappearing over the side of the building.

"I'll deal with her later," snarled Megiddo. "Lieutenants can't teleport. She won't get far."

Now that she'd, like, actually gone and flipped the table? Megiddo felt sort of foolish. Like, was she pissed and had Gunn agreed with her that Mintaka was a selfish moron? Definitely. Was destruction of property on her to-do list? Uhhhh... Well, now she'd already gone and done it, so she'd better just stick with it. "Send me a bill," she said flippantly.

"You," she continued, looking down her nose at Mintaka, "Have quite a flare for fraternizing with the enemy. The little lieutenant looks so cute and cuddly right now, but you know what they say about keeping wild animals as pets, don't you?"

They said it was a bad idea. That was how you wound up mauled by a tiger, or getting your face ripped off by an angry chimpanzee.

"Aaaanyway," said Megiddo, drawing out the long A. "I've got no business spraying friendly fire everywhere." Gunn had given her permission to harass Mintaka, not maim her. "So I hope that I've ruined your fun night of drinking froufrou drinks with your pinkies raised and eating macarons with someone who, might I remind you, has the forces of evil embedded in her very soul?"

Like, she was seriously considering the possibility that Mintaka had forgotten. Ugh. She was as dense as ever.

Megiddo turned to go, satisfied that her job here was done. "Seriously, stop this s**t, you're making the rest of us look like a bunch of prissy morons."

Megiddo frowned, hey eyes narrowing, in reaction to the cooled tea that had just been dumped down the back of her dress. "You little t**t--" she began, and stopped herself, and took a deep breath. Gunn didn't hold her leash, and Mintaka didn't know anything!

"Oh just go ******** off and die," she said finally. "If you love Negaversers so much, go marry one and have his chaos-corrupted babies and spend every night with his chaos-veined c**k down your chaos-loving throat."

And then, she took a long walk off a short roof, because she thought that looked kind of cool?