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By all accounts, the nighttime hours were relatively uneventful. Roddy was asleep, tucked into bed with Staccato, while Julian felt the need to patrol around the neighborhood. He couldn’t sleep and that restless energy turned to protecting his new family. With a good hour or two under his belt, Gravina hoped he could burn off his excess energy and sleep soundly tonight.

Cold wind brushed through his hair and caressed his skin as the Knight of Cosmos lept from roof to roof quietly, making his way towards the park a few blocks away. Ever since his transformation from beast into man, Gravina appreciated simple things like the smell of flowers and frost on the grasses, home-cooked meals and warm toes by a fire. He wanted to continue to protect that as best he could, and protect the people who had nearly sacrificed their lives for his salvation.

Heart full of hope, the puffy-haired knight slowed to a trot upon entrance to the park, finding a strange and dark blip on his radar, somewhere to the left. Trees whispered in the breeze and little legs were protruding from a bush near the swingsets. Oh, was this…

...was this an agent?

Whoever they were, they were lodged fairly deeply in the bush by the look of things, and were ranked as a Lieutenant. While Gravina would be the last person to be considered aggressive or combative, his Knighthood afforded him some comforts. If the Lieutenant chose to try and assault him, Gravina could easy disarm them and send them home.

Gravina approached slowly, carefully, before daring to say anything.

“Um… excuse me…? Are you… stuck?”

Did the agent not know that he, Gravina, was much more powerful than him? Maybe that he was potentially dangerous? Part of the Cosmos Knight's heart felt incredible, gripping guilt that he might inadvertently terrify an agent. Maybe they were trained to fear and avoid anyone like Gravina, despite the fact that he would likely be one of the most friendly Knights an agent could run into. Not that they would know that, certainly.

"Oh, alright. I'm going to grab and pull on your leg, okay? Please tell me if it hurts. I don't want to hurt you..."

With a deep sigh, and without knowing just how big or small this agent was, Gravina rubbed his hands together to warm them just a little. Running cold naturally could be a problem sometimes (though snuggling up to Roddy when he was cold was one of the highlights of his day). When ready, the Knight of Cosmos curled his fingers around the agent's ankles and began to gently tug. Gravina did not know the extent of his Knightly strength and didn't wish to accidentally injure the poor thing.

With a few good tugs, Fettel would have found himself righted and dislodged from the bush, with a Knight of Cosmos standing before him in pinks and blues, a slight sparkle to his outfit. Was it twinkling stars, or glitter? Hard to say. Gravina busied himself with plucking the twigs and leaves from the boy's hair.

"Are you okay now? I'm sorry you had such a... rough landing."

His voice was soft, his body language unassuming. Of all the possible Knights to run into, Fettel might have been the luckiest agent tonight.

Gravina thought the little boy odd, and very young, but polite nonetheless. Keeping his hands crossed before his hips, the Knight couldn't help but smile.

"You're welcome. I'm glad you're alright, but... You don't have to worry about me. Shouldn't you be worrying about who is out here?" The Knight's eyebrows touched in concern for the young man. He was a Lieutenant, and while the youma would leave him alone, most everyone else probably wouldn't. "It's not safe out here for anyone, really. I wish that weren't the case. I think the people of the city deserve some peace. Even you."

He didn't harbor any ill will towards most of the Negaverse - it would be terribly hypocritical if he did. Instead, Gravina was more concerned about the young ones thinking they were doing something positive for the city without realizing their efforts were the complete opposite. "I'm out here trying to help people, and protect the family I have now. I know you're probably working for a General, but it seems awfully mean to just... dump you in a bush and have you fend for yourself. Are they not teaching you anything?"

Not that they should, as far as Gravina was concerned. Taking in younger people and misleading them was cruel.

"Are you hungry? I brought a sandwich with me. You can have it, if you like."

As this little lieutenant explained what he had to do in order to lure people into alleys to drain them, Gravina was horrified. His hands crept to his mouth and the Knight was quite visibly disturbed by the story the lieutenant was telling.

"You... but... th-that's not right." he stammered. Having to resort to that to fill one's quota? Horrifying! "There has to be another way, Lieutenant... You shouldn't have to do that. You're so young... it's just... it's wrong! And someday, you might really get hurt! Surely there's somewhere else you could stay, or something else you could do to get your quota? M-maybe you can transfer to a different General, o-or something..."

It just wasn't right. He was so, so young!

With a heavy sigh and a shake of his head, Gravina wordlessly handed the turkey sandwich to Fettelite. The Knight didn't need it. Gravina knew intimately just how horrific the Negaverse could be, but this aspect hadn't even occurred to him. The puffy knight of Cosmos was ill just thinking about it.

Gravina sighed deeply, brows furrowed in worry and grave concern. "...you might be smiling on the outside, but... are you smiling on the inside...?" Tilting his head at Fettelite as a concerned parent might, Gravina nervously picked at the hem of his sparkling sleeve. "I guess... I know what it's like, to try and keep your head up, no matter what. It's... exhausting, sometimes."

Twiddling his fingers, there wasn't any ground to make by fretting over a Negaverse Lieutenant who had a job to perform under strict threat of... god knew what.

And that Negaverse Lieutenant had a point, the Knight nodded quietly in agreement. "...I just... try to be nice to everyone. Sometimes, that's what someone really needs. N-not that I know for sure, I just..." Gravina sighed and shook his head. He was just blathering now. "A-anyway, I'm glad I had something for you to eat. Most of the Order people, they're very kind. They... helped me out a lot. They'd help you too, if you wanted that..."

The Knight looked away, to a point somewhere in the distance, squinting. "...I'd help you, too. But, please don't get in trouble. Please stay safe, okay?"