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A night and a day spent skulking in the shadows, digging through refuse, and avoiding the population of a city was almost wonderfully nostalgic. Grieve hadn't been this badly off among a people since before she'd awakened as a chibi senshi. But hiding was for the best right now, she'd been to enough worlds to know that a population that all looked the same didn't bode well for the distinctly different. Especially since she was, in a horrifying turn of events, a basic senshi once more.

The skins of this land were all shades of earth, from pale sand to rich soil, and nothing very bold among them. No horns. No tails. No wings. Briefly, during the daylight hours, she thought she'd seen some more exciting features, but quickly realized they were fabricated. Accessories. Well. At least they knew they were boring. And the food they just tossed away for any to take? Delicious. Abundant as well. It felt like nearly all of those she'd seen strolling the streets were well-fed and worry-free. The city was nowhere near the idyllic, pristine worlds she'd been to, but it was much closer to them than Grieve had ever been, even during its periods of progress. In fact, she found the medium very comfortable. Perfect places too often required perfect manners and perfect backgrounds, not to mention perfectly abiding their perfect laws.

It was better to comfortably shabby and well-fed.

Speaking of well-fed, Grieve clambered down off the metal staircase attached to a building and into the rich smelling alleyway below. A large flat box was open on top of a garbage bin, displaying something that looked delicious and only partially eaten. There was a cat nearby that also looked like a nice snack, but it had a collar on and Grieve didn't eat other people's food. Not unless she already planned on killing them anyway. And the owner of this morsel was clearly dedicated in fattening the creature up, it'd be rude to destroy that kind of effort.

Oh. Oh! There were tiny fish on the wedges of food. And cheese! That must be cheese! She picked up a piece and made eye contact with the cat as she chewed, slowly. It looked very soft. Squeezable even.

As the talked, Grieve proceeded to chew furiously like a pet caught eating something they shouldn't have. She shouldn't have shoved the whole rest of the triangle into her mouth. But it was so good! She didn't dare to spit it out. Her shoulders shook, her fist pounded on the top of the dumpster, and finally she swallowed it all down so at least she could...

Burst out laughing and pointing at the little butthole enthusiast. "A Mau?! You're a ******** Mauvian!" Tears fell from her eyes and she wiped at them with a sharkish grin, "Our high and mighty furry techlords off eating garbage and licking their assholes with the rest of us scum..."

Grieve watched her damn mouth by shoving another triangle of food into it. The little fishes felt great between her teeth. Soft, cooked food was such a ******** blessing, she'd cry if she'd ever known how. Still chewing she nodded, and then spoke, mouth still full, "This is Earth?"

A rough HUH of a laugh, crumbs thankfully missing the newly cleaned Mau.

"No 'oner they look 'o 'oring." Earth was associated with both bland peoples and governing powers best avoided. Though the latter didn't seem especially present so maybe the lump of dirt had improved.

Swallowing, she added, "Sorry for stealing you're food. I owe you." Her voiced turned from obnoxious amusement to total solemnity. "I can kill someone for you." Ah. Yes, He was a Mauvian right, might be a bit on the sparkling knight side of laws n' such. She grimaced with a flash of sharp teeth. "Or..." Grieve pulled out a bone necklace, an oddly shaped skull with eight eyeholes at its center, strung along other beads made of bone, wood, and stone. It was one of the better pieces that still remained intact through the centuries. "The skull belonged to the Eigel the Magic Spider."

As far as spiders went, it wasn't actually very magical. But its skeleton and those of its brood had provided some very nice crafting supplies.

"This is high quality bone and craftsmanship! This is worth 5000 drekas, easy! I could buy twelve of these delicious circles," and upon remembering that it was delicious, she began shoving another piece into her mouth as she continued to argue. "It 'asted 'enturies! Ih 'eautiful!"

Grabbing up the piece a bit too aggressively, several of the beads crumbled under her fingers. Without pausing, Grieve scattered the bits over the pizza like a topping. "Don' 'ow a goo' thin' 'en oo 'ee it."

Swallowing it down, she thought about the description. There'd been brushes of auras since arriving. Brief ones since she was alone, on a strange world, ******** basic, and not utterly stupid. Some did feel dark.

"Pretty cheap," she finally nodded, feeling it was a pretty good deal. "You want any trophies off them? Offering anything else for a few more?" The weapons were nothing, but ripping out starseeds sounded particularly dangerous. May as well get a bit more out of it.

"More of a teeth person m'self." Ears were okay for snacking, they had a good chew, but you couldn't really do much more with them. The Mau remembering that it had food and soon probably wouldn't was a problem, and one that only chewing faster could solve.

s**t, this little ******** is like a blackhole.

" Ow! You chewy ******** morsel," Grieve yelped and would have shaken out her hand, but in the tussle she'd at least managed to swipe off the cheese and fish topping. The bread part was sadly lost, flying up and landing on the pile of Mauvian flopped out on the ground.

A fair and event split, she supposed.

"Okay, I'll kill some little agent, get you an ear out of it, you figure out if you got more t'offer than a cold dinner." She licked her hand clean, savoring the greasy gunk of it all, and then held out her hand to shake on it.