"Can we do what we came here for?" 

"What'd we come here for?"

"No idea, actually. I assumed you would want to be a huge nerd about magic with me and the cardcaptor in the same room."

"I want to be a huge nerd about magic, yeah, but I also want to—I don't know, pool knowledge, I guess? Figure out who's ending what world and how and how to prevent it from happening from a more collaborative standpoint."

"I don't think I actually know all that much, but I brought Kero." 

Kero, I choose you! 

He opens his backpack. 

Kero floats up.

And glares at Alistair.

"That is the most adorable thing."

"So adorable. The most adorable."

"Kero, I was thinking we should all work together. Stopping the cards is important, so we should all get along."

"He started it."

Sadde laughs.

"I don't care who started it, you're ending it." 

"So who wants to do magic? Not me, because I missed my Hogwarts letter, but I'll provide snacks." 

"So, Alistair, from the top, what do you know about the Clow Cards and the cardcaptor and Clow's designs?"

"The Clow Cards are powerful artifacts that unite the two great magical traditions, Chinese and English, through their creator, Clow Reed. He mastered the elemental forces and tamed them, giving them physical form. The creator of an artifact typically has some control over the object used, but the ultimate powers it has are also a matter of the magic itself. Clow's plans are vague, no one knows what the man wanted, besides a powerful heir." 

"You knew about Kero before, though, didn't you?"

"I thought there would be two guardian beasts, but plenty of rumors and myths I've heard turned out not to be true." 

"...there are two."

"There are two, but we don't know where the other one is, and all the stories say they should both have been guarding the book. One is missing, the other was asleep. Rumors don't really tell the full story. Clow Reed doesn't make much sense to me."

"You said there was a second cardcaptor, too, and there isn't."

"I said there was a replacement, a true cardcaptor. That's not about Clow Reed's intent. Anyway, maybe I'm wrong. We'll see." 

"But there isn't, that's not how it works," insists Kero stubbornly.

"We're trying to pool knowledge, even rumors are something," he points out.

"Even if I'm wrong, my point is that I mostly just have myth and tradition. You're the Guardian Beast, you have the most first-hand knowledge." 

"Clow wanted someone to replace him—to be as powerful as him. And he wanted me and... the other guardian... to help and guide the cardcaptor as they developed their powers and surpassed him."