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Horatio was never much one for math, but this equation was easy to solve. What did tuna + toys + new friend equal? The need to absolutely run over with every ounce of speed she possessed and claim all of them before some other feline could. Luminscent teal eyes followed the movements of the toys as they swayed in the evening breeze. It had feathers and was that a bell?! She could play so many games with those things... either by herself or with her new little Senshi friend who called out for a kitty. Her mouth also watered over the offered cans of tuna. It wasn't salmon, but it was still wonderful, flaky fish and she wanted it. Her claws kneaded against the bark of the tree she currently sat in, one conveniently behind the little Senshi.

Why then, did she hold back? Well, a prankster like Horatio couldn't just come when called. Anyone calling for a kitty was pretty much asking not to receive one, right? But the girl was a winner, and a winner with so many wonderful things... so it was impossible to stay away. A grin crossed her muzzle as she lowered herself on the branch. After assuming perfect pouncing position, leapt down from the tree - and landed on the girl's old-fashioned hat. "BOO!"

She was under attack!

Horatio clung for dear life to the hat,a lifeboat even when the super fun toy became a weapon. A painless weapon, but still a weapon. All she could do was arch her back and try to avoid getting smacked and... well, that worked a couple of times, but it still hit the Guardian a couple of times too. Was this some new form of Whack-a-Mole involving kitties? If so, Horatio may have found the one game she did not want to play! The little winner's scream was some kind of comfort that the prank had gone as desired but it clearly wasn't the kitty's finest hour.

When the hitting finally stopped, Horatio's eyes were wide and her fluffy tail flicking here and there as though it were scared to stand still. She relinquished her death grip and hopped down to a shoulder, and then a lap as she mewled, "I'm a Horatio guardian cat, and it's okay the hits didn't really hurt but next time you should tell me the rules of the game. You had all sorts of wonderful things and just looked super pounceable and fun to play with and--yes, tuna, please, and play time, and cuddles!"

The Himalayan placed her tiny paws on the girl's cheeks in order to indicate that she was totally serious about getting all of those things and then turned and helped herself to an open can of tuna. "And since we're going to be eating, playing, cuddling friends, I can answer questions! I like questions, I like giving answers, so fire away but my mouth might be full so give me a chance to swallow first, okay?"

Sweet, succulent tuna was so close that Horatio's little mouth was watering... but she could only take a single, fulfilling bite before she was being pulled away from the tasty feast! She chuffed in protest even as soft, tiny hands took hold of her fluffy cheeks. Lutetia was obviously a go-getter of a winner, but... "Oh come onnnn, it's really mean to wave a shiny toy and wonderful food and then say 'oh, well, you can't have these things until you do what I want.' But... okay, I'll answer all the questions and then we can eat and play?"

Large teal eyes widened all the more at the discussion of her awakening, and the Himalayan scoffed. "Well, obviously you should've come to me because I would've made sure you knew everything you needed, Lutetia, but I'll do it now--except for powering down because I'm assuming you figured that part out on your own. Then WE can be best friends, okay? Okay."

Being lowered next to the fish was too much of a temptation for the cat who purred happily and nommed down (much more quickly this time) while the young teenager listed question after question. Horatio heard them all but did not even begin to answer until the multitude finished rolling out. At that point, she lifted her head from the mostly empty tuna can and licked at her lips and muzzle. "Okay, that it? Here goes!"

The Guardian took a deep breath almost at the same time the Chibi Senshi did, but if Lutetia was calming herself, Horatio was merely getting ready for a veritable dump of information.

"Okay, Columba was only half right--see, it's not like an 'Oh you're fourteen now dingding time to grow up!' alarm goes off in your starseed, right? If you wanna become a big Senshi you've got to go through a ritual first, and then you won't be a Chibi anymore... which is really sad, okay, because Chibis are way more fun to play with and when they get older it's all fight this and blah blah that. Even if you go through the ceremony, you'll still have your sphere and your dumb hat--well, definitely the sphere, I guess the hat might go away. No refunds, no exchanges, so sorry!"

"See, you're a Senshi because your starseed--that wonderful little glowy warm spot in your chest that marks you as a winner--is that of a Senshi. It's all cosmic fate and stuff; some people are Senshi, and some aren't. That's just how it goes. So, you're Lutetia of Migrationf or life and can I just say that Migration seems like an awesome sphere to me because it's sort of like... a big ole game of tag, right? Run over there, then run back, it sounds like fun! And when birds do it, it's even more fun because it means the seasons are changing!"

The Himalyan stopped here because she got distracted by a moth landing on her nose. Wriggling it to no avail, she finally just pawed the little creature off and watched it flutter away. "Where was I? Oh, right, Guardian Cats. Of course not all cats can talk, silly! I think I've always been a Guardian Cat, at least for as long as I can remember, so... I guess that's that?"

Horatio was taking a small break to grab another breath and lick around her muzzle just in case there were any lingering tuna bits. The open can was still giving her the biggest hunger pangs but she tried really hard to concentrate on the last few questions so she could get back to eating and playing and having fun! She found the pets and being placed into a little lap as indications that she was doing a good job and, always an an attention-whore, she tried to continue doing good so she'd get more! At the suggestion of a sacrifice, she chuffed in amusement but shook her head, "No, don't do that those kinds of sacrifices are very bad and we're defenders of righteousness and the good guys, so don't go around hurting people and expecting it to be a good thing okay? I dunno what your ritual in particular is because it differs from person to person but you gotta show your planet that you've earned your big girl powers! ... you've been to Lutetia, right?"

At the admission that the teen wanted to play and be friends, the Himalayan rolled away from the wonderful skritches on her ears in order that her fluffy tummy could be available for pampering. Her paws batted at the Chibi Senshi's fingers, all thoughts of the ritual out of her head as she tried to think of what game they could play first. Tag? Fetch? Hide-and-go-seek? Eating contest to see who could slurp up the tuna fastest? The possibilities were endless! "It can be play time now? I'm as good at playing as talking, maybe better in fact!"

Finally! Play, play, play, plaaaay. Horatio's batting of the fingers only became more intense as she squeed, "YAY! I can fetch, or we can climb a tree or do a foot race--but fair warning, I'm pretty fast and... and... awww, I know that look, that's the 'I've got more questions look'--"

And sure enough, little Lutetia did. It was really hard to be a Guardian Cat who wanted to play whenever there were so many questions to be answered, all the time. She gave a little pout and looked longingly at the shiny, shiny bell but... well, if her new friend was having fun playing twenty questions, then maybe that could be a fun game too!

Besides, space travel was super cool!

"Okay. Up there--" she batted a cream colored paw towards the night sky. "Up there, there's a place called Lutetia. I don't really know starstuff so well, okay? It might not be a planet, it might be a moon or a star or an asteroid, but somewhere there's a Lutetia. And it's tied directly to you! So you can go up there and visit it. Awesome, right?"

Oh right. Rules, all games had rules! Not fair to the player if they didn't know the rules.

"You have to find Lutetia's call. If you look up into the sky and concentrate really, really hard... you'll eventually hear it. Then you latch onto it and then you press the 'home' button on your Senshi cell phone. ... you got the cell phone, right?"

Horatio scurried out of the Chibi Senshi's voluminous skirt because she needed space to dig around in her own magical space. The girl in the silly white bonnet had obviously gotten her henshin pen or she wouldn't have been able to power up... so all she needed as the cellphone! The Mauvian gave a little dash, running one paw purposefully on the ground until a cellphone magically appeared!

Gripping the phone up in her mouth as best she could in her mouth, the small Himalayan drug it back to Lutetia and promptly plopped it in her lap. Along with her fuzzy self, of course! "Here it is! You can use this to keep track of other Senshi by scanning them, and you can contact other Senshi with it or me and the home button can you take up to space. So don't lose it, okay? Keep it safe with your henshin pen. Oh, and you can text with it? I dunno about selfies and stuff."

Now the intrepid Horatio put both of her front paws on Lutetia's little chest and gave her the biggest, saddest kitty eyes she could muster as she mewed, "Can we play now? Pleeeeeeeease?"

The excited cat purred whenever she was rewarded for her hard work with ear skritchings. Truth be told, she did not mind answering questions. It gave her time to make new friends and playmates and it was sort of her job, after all. She needed to make sure thate everyone of her winners had the tools they needed to fight as best they could. Keep them playing in the game!

Teal eyes began to follow the feather as though Lutetia had found a hypnotist's coin and wanted her to follow it. When the feather hit her nose she instinctively leapt for it. When pulled back out of range, she raced to get a speech out before it lowered back in range again, "No worries, I'm always here to help, and of course we're friends, how could we not be friends after spending so much time together and yes, lots more fish please and and and oh please lower it down again I want to bat it and the feather tickles."