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Shulang had admittedly been a little nervous about giving a very cute boy (********, boys, he was into boys, he still was a little ******** up about that, honestly, after everything he'd ever been through in his life) his phone number. Both because cute boy and also because, even though Ziuhoi had clearly never interacted with magic before and had been attacked by a Negaverse Lieutenant, part of him was still apprehensive about the possibility of exposing his identity to the wrong person, who might just be trying to trap him and force-corrupt him.

He didn't think that was the case here, though, but paranoia had the idea sitting in the back of his brain anyway.

"I can handle messy," he said with an awkward smile as he came into the apartment. It didn't even look that bad. Just... lived in. That was the way Shulang preferred a space to be, anyway. A little mess, like someone was actively living there and using stuff daily, made a place feel like a home. Everything neat and tidy and put away and we can't let people know we eat or sit on the couch gave him hives.

"Are there any questions you'd like to start with?" he asked, taking his seat at the table.

Shulang turned back and kicked his own shoes off when he realized Ziuhoi did so, then came back to the table.

"Hah. Well, you wouldn't be the only one," he replied, thinking of Shuangxu. "Mn. Yeah. Pretty much. Used to be only if you had the right starseed—had a magical past life. I heard something about descendants getting chosen, but that seemed... very rare. Nowadays, though, something big happened, and random people seem to get assigned a new magic to do with the Moon."

He paused. "Okay. Let me start over. I'm a Knight. I serve The Code, capital letters. It's a metaphysical and physical being with pieces of itself scattered throughout the known universe on various planets, asteroids, and other celestial bodies. The Code is what selects a Knight to serve it, but the magic a Knight has is rooted in the planet that their Code piece is on. Knights of Neptune have watery magic and they're dressed in blues and greens, Knights of Lysithea—me—very bright, frilly, and magic seems to be themed around unicorns and what they represent, because that's what the Senshi of Lysithea is... the Senshi of Unicorns. But we're not beholden to these Senshi. Which is good, given that none of the Senshi for the main nine planets in our solar system have shown up since everyone died about a thousand years ago. With me so far?"

Shulang nodded. "I think the Code's affected by the place its on, but I'm not entirely sure," he admitted. "It would only make sense, though."

He rolled his shoulders, trying to keep himself relaxed. "Senshi are focused on protecting the planet that gives them the magic to do it, while Knights are focused on protecting the Wonder where the Code Piece is. A lot of Wonders are reflected on Earth in some way—not really sure why. Earth seems... to have been a really, really important place, way back when. But anyway, my Code Piece is literally in Castle Dunnottar, but a version of it that's on Lysithea, rather than Earth. All of us can go visit the places that we are designated to protect."

He smiled a little then, hoping Ziuhoi would ask to visit Dunnottar. Though... he would probably have to visit there on his own first and see what it was like. s**t.

"I know it's a lot to take in, but... maybe the Code will reach out to you and choose you," he mused. "I don't know. None of us really knows how this works in its entirety. But... it would be nice if you turned up as a Page. I mean, that's how you start out. Page, Squire, Knight. I'm a Knight of Lysithea, but at the moment, my magic is only at the level of a Squire."