"...You don't seem much like raksha," she says, focusing more keenly on them.

"Probably because we aren't."

" - You're from another Creation?" she asks, after a pause.

"If that makes sense to you. We've been calling them worlds or universes."

"That's not something I've heard of before."

And it's potentially momentous.

"...Why help us?"

"Some people tend to- repeat, across worlds. We've met your kind before, and Luc' is the same as me."

Her arm tightens briefly around her girlfriend.

"Can you prove that?"

"Perhaps." She gathers up some chakra in her hand, glowing, and holds it out towards Wyld. "If I can?"

She reaches out the paw-hand not holding Luc' to take Elieyha's.

Elieyha presses the best sense-impression she can give into the chakra and feeds it to her.

Brief flinch.

...That is so weird.

"...I believe you."

"So why are you here?"

"We were exploring. We seem - apparently really unusually likely to land on interesting people; I can also sense a me around here..."

Squint.

" - I bet you're Jubilee's pattern." He'd felt distantly familiar when he healed her...

"She's nearby?"

"Yeah. I can send someone for her. Probably this room is crowded enough, though."

She examines Elieyha, looking for - something.

"...What's your story?" Also why isn't there a Wyld with them.

"It's kind of long. And complicated."

Sigh.

"We're kind of long and complicated too... But if your world's settled enough you can afford to go exploring..."

She glances down a bit at Luc'.

"We could use some help."

"It's in good hands. We can spare the time."

"Luc'... How much are you okay telling them? - And I can relay it all, if you'd rather."

"If she's me, then- all of it."

Nuzzle. "I love you."

Turning to the two newcomers: "So... Very background context first. Our world was made by the primordials, who made the gods to serve them. The primordials were tyrants. The gods wanted to overthrow them, but were bound to obey their creators, so the gods made the Exalted in secret. Exaltations are - a thing that happens to mortals, making them more powerful and freeing them from fate. There's a couple kinds. The important original ones here are Solars and Lunars. Solars were designed by the Unconquered Sun, the leader of the gods, and Lunars were designed by Luna, the goddess of madness and the edges of the world."

"Our first lives - Luc' was a Solar, and I was a Lunar. We were bound together - Luna made all the Lunars in love with a Solar mate, at the Unconquered Sun's demand, so Lunars couldn't overthrow the Solars."

"The Exalted went to war with the primordials, overthrowing them. The dead primordials became the Neverborn. The captured primordials were bound to oaths and thrust into another layer of the world called Malfeas, where they became the Yozis. That was thousands of years ago. The Yozis were really mad about this."

"For a couple thousand years, the Solars ruled Creation. Then - something went wrong." She nuzzles Luc'. "I don't remember. Luc' remembers a bit. The Solar rule stopped being good and fair and started being - controversial."

"Apparently the me then objected to this enough to kill the Luc' then. We - don't know what happened to the me after, just that she eventually died. Around then - another kind of Exalt, the Terrestrials, overthrew all the Solars. They trapped most of the Solar Exaltations so people couldn't keep exalting."

"A bit ago that trap broke. The Neverborn and Yozis caught some of the Solar Exaltations and - changed them."

"Luc's Exaltation was one of the changed ones. It enslaves her to the Yozi who claimed her Exaltation."

"I didn't know that when I met her two years ago. I was just - a fairly recent Lunar, plotting to change the world. I've been working to conquer this region to end slavery in it... I fell in love with Luc' really fast when we met, and she let me believe she was a Solar, but the whole time she was obeying the Yozis. Working to spread Yozi cults, undermining me."

"That - "

"A year ago I figured it out. We fought. Luc's owner got mad at her for - implying she didn't want to do what the Yozis wanted, so the Yozi caused a bad sandstorm around us. Both of us got pretty hurt. We - talked things out, more calmly, after that. We decided... That pissing off the Yozis was worth it."

"I can heal pretty well, so the punishments don't bother me, but they were hurting Luc', so I prayed to Luna until I got a power to let me take Luc's injuries. Which's why I was so badly hurt when you guys showed up, the Yozi had just finished throwing a temper tantrum."

"Our - big important thing is making it so Luc' isn't bound to the Yozis anymore, and overthrowing those assholes again. And also I want to end slavery in Creation, but - "

She's quiet.

"...I'd rather save Luc' first."

"What do you think, does that beat out Hisame?" she asks Naruto.

"Does seem like a pretty big mess."

"Who is Hisame?"