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"Phew," Sailor Altair had inhaled deeply and taken her time with her exhale of that breath before she remembered that she was in her magical state as a senshi and needed to be mindful of concealing her location. However, after a look around her to hastily check if she had been overheard, she remembered after a moment of forgetting that she had situated herself high up in the branches of a tall tree. And there was no one around from the looks of her quick scan of her height level in altitude that she had said tree to thank. It was much dimmer now than when she had begun her training session and being in the shadows of the leafy confinement she surrounded herself with made it seem a bit dimmer immediately around herself than outside of her shadowy hiding place. She made a mental note not to linger too long if she wanted not to get back home so late into the night and get up on time for work tomorrow.

Even without seeing herself fully, Altair imagined she made a silly sight during the process she had taken to seat herself on the fortunately sturdy and wide tree branch. She had slowly lowered herself from standing while she kept her sideways hug of the tree trunk with both hands. She had realized it peculiar that she worried about falling when she had been jumping up to the roof of many a building now over the recent days, however that realization did not alter the process she underwent. She had meant to readjust her position of how she was sitting again, but first she kept to the way she was currently seated with one side of her leaning against the tree trunk and still hugging it while both her legs dangled from one side of the branch as she gazed out through the leaves and took in the sights of the city from her point of concealment.

And then came the sounds of a rustling of movement and a sudden greeting that had Altair abruptly take a sharp inhale of breath to gasp in shock as she quickly hung on tighter to the tree trunk, as though clinging for dear life. She had also closed her eyes with a slight trembling as panicked thoughts swirled in her head about having been caught and soon meeting her doom. But a few seconds passed and she gradually opened her eyes again while looking towards the voice she had heard. It was a talking cat! It wasn't the talking cat she had been searching for to meet again she reckoned from the unfamiliarity she felt in this encounter, however she found this a rare occasion considering that she searched at somewhat notable lengths to more often than not fail to encounter any talking cats.

She was filled with wonder and amazement at the sight of her unexpected company that aided in swiftly changing the fear that just struck her into the gladness that rose up within her. "G-good evening," she had managed to move to sit with her legs bent and tucked to one side of her so her whole form was now securely on the fairly spacious and elevated surface. And with continued fascination, she waved along with her verbal greeting in response to the cat now in front of her with one hand.

And her following thoughts now at this point in time was a still mostly foggy recollection when she had become a senshi. Altair felt that she likely will always regret not remembering much of that monumental event after it had happened including the cat who guided her, but she held on to the hope that perhaps she someday will clearly remember the details. Right now, however, she wanted to strive not to make the same mistake, "I-I'm a senshi. My name is Sailor Altair of Scalpels. M-may I ask your name, please?"

Altair had next gradually begun to pet the soft fur of the cat now on her lap as she readjusted her seated position one more time with the aim for them both to be settled more comfortably on the tree branch, the senshi having moved her tucked legs to extend in front of her while keeping her sheltering hold of the cat in her arms so as not to drop the feline as she shifted.

Unfortunately, it was rare that Altair would encounter cats and more so have friendly interactions with them throughout her life so far. In fact, her first remembered encounter with a kitten as a toddler was of being scratched behind her ear as she turned her cheek away while pulling back the hand she had extended in an effort to pet the fuzzy looking ball of fur she had tried to approach under a bush.

While she was being honest with herself, she found she had more luck getting along with dogs she met and more frequently also. However, she did have a second very memorable encounter with a grown cat after becoming a young adult not so many years ago from today. This second memory was a good and surprising one since that cat had approached her, brushing against her shins, accepting the brush of her hand, and even jumping into the front seat carpet of her car to be coaxed back outside. It was an experience she thought only more skilled persons than she could go through when she would witness the closeness that same cat shared with neighbors. But, it ended up teaching her that she likely just hadn't met very much cats to be able to see more variety in possibilities to observing how she could interact with them individually. Since then though, she had met more friendly cats who allowed her closer to them than she had ever been able to convince others of similar interactions as a little girl and while in most of her teen years.

Long story short, she was very glad that she was meeting a cat now on friendly terms and one that can also talk at that after many days of searching for a cat that can talk.

"I-It's good to meet you as well, Miss Kitty, a-and I'm alright," Altair replied smilingly to the cat she held in a soft hug with one arm as she gently gave Miss Kitty scratches between also continuing to run her hand in motions meant to be calming strokes and rubs along what she observed to be a now taken on form as a purring bundle of smooth fur by Miss Kitty. "H-how about you? I-I hope Chaos has been keeping away from giving you trouble as well. H-honestly, I'm worried because I don't remember much of the night I became a senshi; out of fear I think, though I have been trying to remember again more clearly than the hazy parts I scarcely managed to. I-I hope the cat who told me and helped me transform into the senshi I am for the first time is safe. W-we haven't seen each other since a-and I'd like to beg to be given the lesson again that I feel that I know I was given but don't remember the contents of for the most part I t-think. I-I want to stop making mistakes and t-try again to be a better student on how to be a senshi this time." Altair caught and stopped the beginning of tears trailing down her cheeks with the back of a gloved hand before resuming the motions of her palm along Miss Kitty's back. "I-I apologize, Miss Kitty, I ended up rambling."

Days after days, Altair's guilty feelings that she should have tried harder not to be so afraid and ridiculous would return again and again. But it did register in her mind again and again as well that wallowing would not help her improve herself.

And she felt very thankful, too, for the comfort Miss Kitty extended to her. She gave a bright little smile in letting her deep appreciation shine through her worried expression as she continued to offer the motherly talking cat gentle scratches and back rubs. "T-thank you, Miss Kitty," she responded by first voicing her gratitude as well and then she began to ask, "I-I, may I ask i-if you would please tell me about my magic phone?" From her skirt's side pocket, Altair pulled out a smartphone with a moon pearl accessory. "M-my dreams are hazy f-for most of the time a first magic phone was presented to me and then this magic phone seemed to have replace the previous. I-In my dreams of the night I first transformed I recall having a talk, that I was given information about having a magic phone as well, b-but I don't hear words being said, my dreams are soundless flashes of scenes mostly. I-I'll keep working harder in aiming not to forget anymore. Miss Kitty, may you please a-advise me about using a magic phone, of being a senshi, anything you believe I should know about magical happenings and remember to be a good senshi, keep improving as one? May w-we be friends please? May you please b-be my teacher?"