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Seren... No, Cheomseongdae, she had to remember that was who she was when she wore these clothes, though it felt... Strange to think of herself that way... was standing in a somewhat out of the way alley, catching her breath a tough. She had just been running in this... new form of hers, and was amazed. She could run so much faster, and for so much longer! If she could have done this some weeks ago, maybe she could have escaped from that terrifying man she had met in the park. That would have been amazing, because she still did not know where he had gone, or why ha hadn't done what he said... She'd been helpless.

She was about to start walking, when it occurred to her... If she could run this much faster, what else could she do more effectively? Could she swim faster? Hit harder? Those weren't things she could exactly test right here and now, but... She could maybe test jumping right here... Or climbing, but that had too many chances to cause her to panic attack. Jumping should be ok, she figured, since even if she could do that BETTER, surely it wouldn't be so stupidly high that it would be scary, right?

She considered, and took a step back, so she wasn't too close to a wall, before making an attempt at jumping in place.

The results had her thinking she could, definitely, jump higher, but... Well, effective jumping was done better with a running start, so if she wanted to get a good idea of what it would be like... Yeah. She turned and went all the way to the beginning of the Alley, and then turned BACK and ran hard, until she had good speed, and jumped.

And then screeched in shock and a touch of fear as her jump took her WAY HIGHER then she expected. Way, way higher and oh gods she was going to crash and die she was going to... She landed, with a thump, and a roll, and looked around... Before yelping and huddling in on herself. Oh ******** ********, she was on the roof of the building that the alley ended against! How the hell was she going to get down? She was too high up, for this much exposure! "What the hell do I do now?" She almost wailed.

Cheomsongdae looked up, eyes huge, when she heard an unfamiliar male voice, and stared at him, shivering a little. It took a long moment to process the details... His colors were generally bright, and it WAS NOT the Terrifying Man, which was all a good start. And he introduced himself, and was checking on her. All of this was, she thought, probably a good thing. She bit her lip, thinking for a long moment, then finally she gave a sort of 'made a decision' nod, before speaking.

"Ah... I... Um. I'm Cheomsongdae." That was how she should introduce herself, right? By the name she somehow knew was associated to herself, like this? She had no idea, and no idea who could tell her about all of this, either.

"And... Well. I'm. I'm very new to... all of this..." She gestured at her outfit, and the silly little wand, which she'd tucked into her headband thing, so it would not get in the way of her, if she needed her hands while running. "And I... really don't know anyone else... So I'm just sort of... trying to figure it out as I go."

She took a slow, deep breath, as she glanced towards the edge of the roof, shuddered, then looked back at the young looking man. "So I was testing myself, because I'd noticed that while... in this state..." She had NO idea what people called this stuff. "I could run a LOT faster, which caught my attention. I thought if I could run faster, I should see what else I could do... So I decided to start with testing how far and high I could jump..."

Another slow, deep breath, and she closed her eyes, trying to calm herself. "And found out, much to my horror, that I could jump VERY high, and... accidentally ended up here. And let's just say I'm not a fan of heights, plus I have no idea how to get back down without killing myself." She opened her eyes, and looked at him, pleadingly. "Do... do you know?"

She blinked at him in confusion, for a lot of it, because to be honest, she knew NOTHING. Some information had seemed to come to her, but most of it? Most of it, she had no clue about. A knight... that sounded right. So did Cosmos, and boy did that fit her more then she could probably say. But she really didn't understand the Senshi stuff, she had no idea about all of this... And his Anime pose was entirely lost on her, because she never had a chance to watch it as a kid, and as an adult, she had been too busy making ends meet and going to school.

Finally she said "A pleasure to meet you, as well." She shifted away from the edge of the building, and once she was far enough that she didn't feel panicky, she stood all the way up, and stretched, just a little, to get her muscles to relax.

"Yeah, I don't know any knights. I don't really know what it means to BE one. I... Look, what I know basically is 'the news talks about terrorists in weird uniforms' and now I'm wearing one. I've met someone who said he was going to kill me, once, before all of this happened. But... I don't really understand what's going on. I don't know who to ask, or why it happened." Cheomsongdae closed her eyes again, but this time it was to keep tears in, because honestly, if there was one thing she hated... It was to be unsure at all of herself in a situation. It was hard enough to keep control of anything, and it was all whirling out of control, now.

When she opened her eyes again, she bit her lip at the 'just do it' comment, and sighed, shuddering in horror. "That... was what I was afraid you were going to tell me..." She looked at the other building. It was shorter... and not too far away. Could she do it? She wasn't sure, but she did think it would be less terrifying to make the leap down from there. Climbing was out. She'd spend way too long, panicking and probably clinging to the wall in fear.

She had to get over this. But it wasn't going to be tonight.

She looked back at him, and then, with a bit of a gulp, she nodded. "I... would love some practice. And to be introduced to others, who can help me figure out what the fu... fudge this is all about, and why it happened to me, of all the ridiculous people. Thank you... And... maybe... you could go first? I'll... I'll join you on the other roof?"

She hoped it would be easier if she saw someone else do it... Convince her head it could be done, even if it was scary.

"Oh that would be helpful!" Cheomsongdae looked relieved at the idea of him being able to grab her, not questioning it... Which normally, she probably would, but right now, with everything going on... She just did not have the mental capacity to consider the logic behind that. He said he could, she accepted it, her brain moved on to the more important issues at hand.

She listened to his plan, and considered the other roof again, trying to spot the next place they would go from there, but most of the buildings she could SEE were too tall for that, and blocked her view of any potential other options. She bit her lip, almost too hard, as she thought about it, then gave a tentative nod. "Alright... That... makes sense. Yes. Ok. Let's do this."

She took several deep breaths, and then gasped watching his leap. It was... really quite impressive, but it still scared the hell out of her, having to do that. She shuddered, but refused to let herself freak herself out of doing what she needed to do.

She moved back some, then began to run, before leaping as well. There was a slight shriek of terror, because there was no way in hell she was just able to do this, without the fear winning some. Her arms flailed in the air, and her expression showed she thought she was about to hit the wall... or miss... And then she was landing. It wasn't very graceful, or skillful... She nearly pitched forwards onto her face... but she managed to take several stumbling steps to prevent that from happening.

After a moment of wobbling in place, she turned to face him, her skin paler then it naturally was, but she nodded, slowly, taking deep breaths. "Alright. I made it. Show me the next step?"

She took a few deep breaths, and then gave him a small smile at his words, and his support, then followed him along the path he guided her. She was, quite frankly, terrified the entire time, her eyes wide and pupils fully dilated.

When they hopped from the last one, to the ground, she leaned on the wall to take several slow, deep breaths, then she smiled at him, chuckling at his initial comment.

"Yeah, I do prefer to be on the ground. It's more solid, and less prone to me falling." She tried to make a joke about it, but Cheomsongdae's tone kind of made it clear that she was also pretty honest at the same time. She straightened up, and considered his question, her expression thoughtful.

Finally, her brows coming together, and her expression frustrated, she looked at him and said "I... honestly think you should assume I know as close to nothing as possible. I can tell there are horrible people, scary monsters, and people fighting both, based on what I've seen. Beyond that? I don't know why. I don't know how. I don't know, even, what any of this is about. I wish there was some kind of... instruction manual."

Cheomsongdae nodded about the finding of her weapon, and reached up to pluck the small wand from where she had tucked it. "Yeaaaaah, it appeared to me, when I saw a small one of the monsters going after a child." Her tone made it clear that the fact that it was a child was hugely important to her. "It was weird as fu... fudge, to be honest. One moment I'm trying to figure out how to help the child, terrified as he... heck, the next I'm staring at this..." She waved it a little in an emphasizing sort of way. "and then I'm grabbing it and well...."

She sort of gestured at her outfit, which she loved but at the same time found to be a bit... much. So much silvery stuff, and it was all way more fancy then anything she had EVER owned in her life. "Suddenly I'm wearing all of this. I knew my name, somehow, and that I was a page and... this was my weapon. And that seemed to be it. No explanations, nothing."

She tilted her head, listening to the rest of it. The comment about the harvesting of energy made her go pale, as she remembered the feeling of being drained, and then the way she went unconscious. She whispered, clearly not even aware that she had done so, "Is that what he was doing to me?", a shudder crossing her body as she remembered.

"So... we have... Youma, senshi, these Negaverse agent people, and knights like me? What do you mean by three kinds of Senshi?" Her brows came together in confused concern.

"You look amazed... Why?" Cheomsongdae had no idea, of course, that the OTHER FACTIONS didn't just spontaneously find themselves changed, with no explanation. "And... I... can guess. I got bruised up, but managed to convince the eagle... cat... youma thing... to flee, with a lot of punching and kicking." Her brow raised at the smirk, though, and she tried not to sigh. She could TELL he was way younger hten her, even if she wasn't sure how much, and she was trying to be good, with the not swearing, even if it would make her a little less stressed, to get it out.

She leaned against the wall again, listening silently as he described the other two kinds of Senshi. Corrupted Senshi... Dark Mirror Senshi... And White Moon. All terms that made no sense to her, made her wonder how insane all of this was. Though she saw him glancing at her hair, and blinked, wondering if her hair, her... her one truly beautiful thing... was going to cause her problems.

And then she couldn't help thinking that... Maybe her mind had cracked and she was in the hospital, in a rather restrictive and unfashionable jacket...

No. She'd seen stuff on the news about people in outfits like these for a good while... Honestly, since shortly after she'd arrived here. So unless she'd snapped a helluva long time ago, and her insane dreams were mostly boring as ********, she was no more insane then she had been before the silvery looking wand appeared, and all of this was real. Just crazy as ******** licked her lips, before she finally spoke again. "So basically there's a giant war between these factions, and it's a really ********' old war..." She flushed, realizing she'd forgotten to censor herself, but stumbles on with her words, to avoid dealing with it. "uh and we're just the current lucky schmoops having to deal with it. Ok. So. Um. Magic. Why is there magic?"

Because there was no ********' way she suddenly changed outfits like this without magic.

Cheomsongdae's jaw dropped, quite literally, and her eyes bulged. Talking CATS? "You have to be shitting me!" She said in stunned shock at his words, because while talking cats sounded freaking amazing, it also sounded terrible... What if she didn't know a cat was one of these 'Mauvians' and she talked to it like a normal cat, told it secrets because cats can't TELL people and then... it did? "I... definitely had no idea, holy hell."

She clearly was past censoring herself, thanks to how stunned all of this insane information was making her.

Her brows came together, though, at the word 'starseeds'. "What is a Starseed? And what do you mean, you have a world? What is a Wonder, even, and how do I have one? What? How? I'm so confused, Nix. I'm so very confused."