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Sylvite was finding that she really liked the Information branch. She liked her cute desk, she liked going out on her little mini-missions to scout out the enemy, and she really, really liked the way the reports she'd made looked in a cute little stack that was all color coded in pastels.

The part she didn't like so much was actually doing the paperwork. She was doing verything she could to make it fun, which was mostly working, and anyway, she knew that it was super, super important so she always did her best, but still. Sometimes a girl just needed a break.

That was why she was quick to pick up a different kind of assignment. She was going to do a check-in and some draining with a newish senshi. It sounded pretty simple and fun, and she always liked getting to know people in the Negaverse.

She'd picked out one of her favorite draining spots, a strip mall that was just busy enough but not too busy in the evenings. She slipped into a nearby alleyway and checked her tablet for updates while she waited for the guy to show up.

She didn't have to wait super long for him to show up. That was probably a good sign. She felt the aura before she saw him, of course, but then he was coming around the corner and she looked up from her tablet, her face lighting up into a grin in a matter of seconds.

She'd been expecting that he was gonna be at least kinda cool. Like, he was a senshi. Senshi were always awesome. Those hair streaks, though? That wasn't something someone just got from their magic. That was a personal choice, and Sylvite was into it.

"Hi!" Sylvite said, bouncing up onto her toes as snapped the tablet back into pen form and hooked it onto her shorts. "You're fine. You're Versailles, right? I love your vest! It's so fancy!"

Then, she clasped her hands and tried to be a little bit professional in her own right. "So, my name's Sylvite, but Captain's fine, too." It had a nice ring to it, and she enjoyed all the little reminders that she wasn't at the bottom of the ladder anymore. "Nice to meet you!"

"Yeah, of course," said Sylvite, just the tiniest bit smug. "I'm trying to get around more to meet with people and stuff."

She didn't linger on that for too long, though, 'cause this meeting wasn't about her, not really. Instead, she stood as tall as she could, which was five feet, but it was the confidence that mattered, and she tried to pretend she was sitting at a desk or something instead of in a gross alley.

A quick moment passed as she looked up at him again. "Okay," she said. "I was thinking we should see how you're doing with the training, starting with the basic basics, so, draining." She reached out to point to the street beyond, wiggling her fingers for a little extra drama.

"But if you wanna do it with some extra flair, Mister Splendor, or show off something else you've picked up, instead, now would be the time."

The whole trying to look like a businessman thing kinda fell apart as she bounced up onto her toes, eyes sparkling. "The Negaverse rewards ambition, y'know. Creativity, too. That can always come later, though."

If he did end up struggling, that was kinda why she was here.

Sylvite's grin only seemed to get bigger as her new trainee seemed pretty enthusiastic about it all. He was still being all formal, but that was okay. She'd noticed that a lot of the stiff, formal types seemed to make it pretty far in the Negaverse. A little boring, but this guy was new. She could let him keep the focus but learn to have some fun with it.

This, she was getting the feeling, was gonna be good.

"Okay, let's get started," she said, and she followed him out of the alleyway.

She let him get a little distance before she showed herself, and she crossed the street instead of staying right next to him. Both of their outfits were a little on the bright side, which she was not complaining about, but if they stayed together they might start getting a little bit more attention. She was still totally watching him, though. She saw how he was just standing there, and decided he might need a little inspiration.

One of the stores here was a fast food restaurant, and she stood by the door here, squinting at the specials until someone came out. She was lucky. The guy was clumsy, maybe even drunk, and he walked right into her.

"Ow!" she said, and she pouted, and he even apologized to her. She grinned as soon as he walked off and flashed her new energy orb at Versailles for just a second before she slipped it into her shorts.

After just a second of showing off, Sylvite went back to acting casual and headed back over to her alleyway. Subtlety was, after all, kinda the key to the whole thing. She leaned on the wall like people did in the movies while they were waiting, which was maybe more dramatic than subtle once she thought about it, but whatever. She was far enough back in the shadows that people probably wouldn't notice her, and anyway, she felt really cool.

It seemed like Versailles did have some tricks up his own sleeves, too! She didn't have to wait for him long at all. Her eyes went wide at the tripping someone and helping them up. That was really smart. It gave a good excuse to keep up contact for a little longer than just bumping into someone did, too, which was always helpful, and really important for lieutenants, or basic senshi.

She gave the senshi a quiet but very energetic round of applause when he made his way back over to her. "Woah," she said, grinning. "That. Was. Awesome! So smart."

She took the orb from him. "I can turn this in for you." She remembered the days of not being able to get to the castle to turn things in by herself. That had been a struggle. She'd help him out. As she took a nice look at the glowing orb, since she still wasn't over just how pretty energy was, she took a few steps further back, away from any wandering eyes.

"And since you've got that down we can move onto my specialty, Information, y'know, make sure you know everything that you need to." She put the orb away as she pulled her tablet back out instead, where she typed out a quick note before glancing back up. "What do you know about our enemies? The senshi and knights? Their goals?"

Knights? Ew. Sylvite's nose wrinkled, but she let him talk, since it was definitely in her interests to know all about the enemies and what they were trying to tell the new recruits. It all seemed to come down to the same lies that they always tried to pull on whoever would listen.

"Space stuff. Right." Sylvite nodded a couple times while she took a quick note, but then she put down the tablet so that she could giver Versailles proper eye contact and stuff.

"So yeah. They are connected to space. It's like, asteroids and stuff for senshi, usually, and then the knights team up to serve the big planets and the senshi princesses from what I've heard." She rolled her shoulders back and crossed her arms. "A long time ago, all those places used to have people living on them, like here. Not anymore, though. They're totally dead. There's not even enough up there to support life anymore. That's why everyone's reincarnating here."

She stopped for a second too see if he was following. "I don't know if you know about the reincarnation stuff? We can get into that, too, if you want, but basically these people destroyed their worlds a long time ago and now they're showing up here. They like to say that it's our fault, somehow." Sylvite full on giggled at the thought of that. "But it's not like we can go up there. We never could. We were here when everything was going down everywhere else, fighting like we are now, and now this is the only place still alive."

She shook her head, and even though she was still grinning, it was a little bit lopsided.

Sylvite didn't smile quite so much as the questions got a little more serious. She sucked her cheeks in as she thought about it. She talked to senshi and knights sometimes, but she usually left if they started getting really mind-gamey, so some of the stuff that Versailles was talking about was stuff that hadn't really crossed her mind.

"Yeah, there's probably other stuff out there," she agreed. "I mean, with all the magic that's just here on this one planet, there's probably even more out there." She raised an eyebrow and wiggled her fingers. "It could be aliens." She giggled just a little at her own joke, then shook her head.

"It's probably the same as all those documentaries, though. It's probably not aliens, just civilizations falling apart and stuff. I mean, as far as I know, senshi get their energy straight from their planets, not from people like we do, so if they ever get power hungry?" Sylvite put her hands on her hips and shook her head. "I guess it's possible that there's some places that survived, too, they're just not the ones with people showing up here."

Then she smiled, a little bit gentler this time. "And just so you know, it's okay to ask questions and stuff. Like, maybe not in the middle of a battle, but we want you to understand where we're coming from, and like, feel supported and everything. "

She was still totally gonna have to list him as a flight risk, though.

Sylvite nodded, doing her best to smile back. It was hard to tell if people were taking her seriously, sometimes. Mostly she didn't care if people thought she was being ditzy or stupid. Especially with her Negaverse duties, it usually really helped if people didn't think she was a threat. They'd tell her stuff. And like, that had happened today, too, she'd gotten Versailles to talk a bit, she just hoped he'd listen, too. He seemed pretty cool.

She didn't wanna have to kill him if he turned traitor because of some stupid, awful knights.

"Nah, I can tell you know how to drain," was what she said. "You know how to have fun with it, too. I like that. Just-" she paused, just long enough to get everything pulled back up on her tablet. "I'm gonna need the information on those people who got in your head. Names, descriptions, anything else that you picked up from them. Just because they're not on the front lines doesn't mean they're not dangerous, so this is like, more than practice." She was still and serious as she looked at him, in a way that was almost out of place for her. She wasn't trying to be scary, not really, but all of the intensity that she usually spent bouncing around went straight into her stare. "This is stuff that's valuable to the Negaverse."