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Of course Nectaris showed up. It turned out when all of your life and plans got snatched out from under you, there wasn't a lot of stuff to do while you figured out how to put everything back together. There was paperwork for putting together a new identity, and there were transcripts to look through and school stuff to figure out, and there were phone games.

That was all, and Livie had never been the type to sit still. She'd been about to start clawing up the walls of the Bell's house when she'd gotten the message asking to do something cool.

"Keiko!" she called out the very second she saw a flash of blue and white, and she charged towards the senshi at full speed. She would've charged right into her arms, except that it would've ruined the plastic pack of cupcakes that she was carrying.

She slowed down just a little bit before impact and went for the side hug instead. "Hi! I love fun dumb stuff. Also, space. I went to space and it turns out that space is amazing."

At least, Nectaris was pretty amazing. Space was pretty big, she guessed. Other places might be different.

"Also, I got you your cupcakes, 'cause we only got the cookies, last time."

The way everything kinda twisted was a little bit more gut-wrenching this time around, probably because Nectaris wasn't the one activating the space travel. It wasn't like she cared, though.

As soon as everything cleared up and they were on Keiko's world, Nectaris's eyes were shining. Okay, this was totally different from her pile of stained glass and space rocks. The dusting of snow made it look like something right out of a winter themed fairy tale, and the butterflies made it feel alive.

"Woah," she whispered, and then a butterfly was coming right for her head and she was holding her breath, 'cause the last thing she wanted to do was startle it if it was gonna land on her. Only, that didn't last super long, because it did land on her, and its tiny little butterfly feet tickled.

Nectaris giggled.

"Hey, do you want a cupcake too, mister butterfly? There's probably too many for just us, anyway," she said, cracking open the packaging so that she could fish out one to hold up by her head.

"I dunno what you're talking about," she added, glancing back to Keiko with the kind of stars in her eyes that only came when someone had been blessed by the presence of a tiny creature. "This place is already. Freaking. Perfect. You just gotta stay this close to me, 'cause, like, brr."

"Don't like sugar?" she asked her little butterfly friend, who mostly still just seemed committed to hanging out with the fake butterfly on her headband. "Okay, I guess. More for me."

Eating inside sounded good, but Nectaris wasn't about to wait just so she could dig in. While Keiko was guiding her inside of some kind of structure, Nectaris was eating all of the frosting off of her cupcake in a single lick.

The cake part had vanished, too, by the time that Keiko had gotten the fire going.

The spider in the corner was hard to miss, but Nectaris was giving it plenty of space. She tried to be an optimist and a ball of sunshine and to like everything, she really did, but spiders were just so crawly.

"There's kind a lot of bugs here for a snow spirit planet," she muttered.

Keiko had a point, though. "It's not stupid! I bet it could come out like silk or something. Really delicate."

Plus, the spider seemed to be making a bunch of extra web. There was probably enough there for a small project.

"So, I actually went to fashion school, and I do remember how to sew and stuff. Not really spinning, but if you could get it into thread, I could probably help you go from there."

Nectaris couldn't help but rock side to side a little bit nervously with the way that Keiko looked so excited that she'd gone to fashion school. "Uh, I mean, don't expect miracles right off the bat. I don't remember most of the specifics, it's weird? But I'm also better at this stuff than I was before I lost my memories, so I guess some of the training paid off? I can try."

She just hoped that whatever she made would be good enough to, like, honor all of the hard work of the little spider which Keiko seemed to like so much.

Nectaris was still a little bit creeped out, but she did trust Keiko's judgement, and it wasn't like the spider was biting her, or crawling on her or anything.

After a second, Nectaris rearranged her moon staff and cupcake pack so she could give it a little one fingered scratch on its spider head.

"Okay, maybe it's kinda cute," she said.

The spider just melted into a tiny little bug puddle, and just like that, Nectaris's heart melted, too.

"Okay. I guess he is kinda cute," she said, scratching his head a couple more times. "Does he have a name? He'd be less scary if he had a name. Like, uh-"

She looked at his tiny blue feet, and his fluffy body. "Marshmallow? You know, like from Frozen?"

Would Keiko even know what that was? Was Frozen old now? Frozen was probably old now. Weird.

Peeking back towards the door, she asked, "So, like, what is this place, exactly? I know it's your world, but how much did you know about it? Did people used to live her, 'cause if they did, they probably built their own houses, yeah?"

Nectaris glanced at Marshmallow, her cheeks puffing out as she thought. "I mean, he's a spider," she said. "He probably doesn't understand English."

It was hard to be sure, though. All of the other spiders she'd seen were much creepier. None of them had adorable little blue feet, and none of them spun giant balls of yarn, either. Maybe this magic space spider was smart enough to learn his name.

"Or, just, uh, don't talk about the food marshmallows while you cook them? We should totally do that sometime, though! I love, uh-"

She puffed out her cheeks again, trying to figure out a way not to say the word marshmallows. "Puffy sugar thingies?"

"Yep! The greatest spider ever," Nectaris was quick to agree. To be fair, her bar for spiders was pretty low, but Marshmallow was pretty cute. Like, when he started rubbing her finger with his little spider hands? Yeah, Nectaris let out a tiny high pitched squeak, because that was just too adorable.

"I mean, I don't actually know anything about like, construction or power tools?"

At least, she didn't think she did. It was kinda hard to know for sure, given the whole thing where her memories were almost gone but she still had some skills carrying over. Construction seemed pretty unlikely, though.

"I mean, I'll do what I can! I can google it, and I know how to clean and stuff. And I can't say no to marshmallows, or to Marshmallow."