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Alise generally knew well enough the difference between Mauvian and regular ol’ stray cat to not bother with the latter. Mauvians, after all, had stars on their foreheads, and could speak human speech, while stray cats… possessed neither quality (though she knew of the existence of talking buttons one could train a cat to use). Every now and then, however, the teen would run into a stray cat that seemed a little too self-aware to be just an ordinary alley cat, a little too clever to not be a Mauvian in disguise, or perhaps simply not fully ‘awakened’, in a sense of speaking.

Whether it was the way they would linger and watch her sometimes, or the way some of them seemed to know the best way to get free food from the local seafood market, Alise had her suspicions that she secretly had allies of the feline kind that were simply going incognito, but otherwise were accompanying her along her ‘routes’. In reality, she was probably most likely very far off the mark, and they were just ordinary street cats, but bored as she was, the high schooler preferred to believe she had ‘cracked the code’, so to speak. So far, though, attempts at reaching out to her feline comrades weren’t going well, if at all, with every single cat she had approached taking off as soon as she got too close.

Alise, of course, as hilariously stubborn as she was, would not be one to be deterred, and had taken up pursuit on the latest suspected Mauvian, chasing it into the back alleyway of a local business, before powering up and easily scaling the brick wall that otherwise blocked her way… though the cat was still faster, even against increased chibi senshi running speed.

Of course, Lepus didn’t think about what lay on the other side, or that the cat would find a spot to hide where she couldn’t follow. Soon enough, she found herself staring down what was practically a jungle, a vacant lot full of overgrown weeds and brush, the cat nowhere near easily discernible, especially without an aura to track. Sure, she could spend all evening walking around trying to find it, but wouldn’t it be better to try to appeal to it directly (assuming it was, indeed, a Mauvian in disguise)?

“Heyyy, come on, I just wanna talk~!” Lepus called out, half pleading, half whining.

If she were anyone else, Lepus may have felt a bit embarrassed to be called out like that by a Mauvian, caught in the act of trying to catch a regular ol' stray cat. Technically, there was a twinge of sheepishness, but it was quickly shoved aside by excitement, because while Namielle wasn't the cat the teen chibi had been chasing after, she was a Mauvian all the same, which in some weird roundabout way counted as a 'mission accomplished' in her books. Sort of. Kind of.

Well, okay, maybe she couldn't really justify this as being all according to plan, but attracting the attention of a Mauvian was still enough of a win that Lepus was willing to look past the fact that Namielle was admonishing her.

"I didn't bring any cat treats with me," Lepus said, "Etoile eats sweets anyway, so I don't really buy them..."

"You're a 'furry creature' that's talking back, though," she pointed out, "And you gotta admit, some of these cats seem awfully too smart to be just ordinary strays..."

"I dunno," Lepus said with a shrug, which was pretty true- she tended to act upon an impulse, without really bothering to give much thought to the hows and whys behind things. It made things... more lively that way, in her opinion.

"I think Mauvians are pretty cool, with how you guys can talk and stuff. And also, like, how you can do magic? I think that's amazing."

If she was familiar with the level of technological genius that some Mauvians seemed to possess, she'd probably be even more fascinated, but alas, neither of the ones she was properly acquainted with were at that point.

"I want to meet all the Mauvians I can, to learn more about you guys." And also to convince more to come live with her, despite her mother not allowing her to keep pets, but she didn't tell Namielle that.