---Before the ichor breakdown---

(Probably just a moonflower Angst :D)

"Astro, are you still in contact with him?" "Tch, you need to stop visiting Dandy all of the time, Astro." "Astro, you're better than this!"

Those words haunted Astro so badly. The toons had been reminding him about his relationship with Dandy for a few days now. These days. . . Dandy has started going obsessed with this mysterious liquid called "ichor" --- aka the liquid that brought them to life. Sure, being obsessed with something isn't bad, but we're talking about Dandicus Dancifer here, he spend too much time researching the ichor, he barely even lets the toons' handlers touch it.

No toons in GardenView wants to visit or talk to Dandy, he has that powerful liquid in his control, what if he does something bad to them? He could turn them into--- scary twisted monsters with that liquid! However, Astro seems to be more worried about Dandy more than he fears him, he'd sometimes sneak out of his room and occasionally checks on Dandy, and whenever Dandy finally closes his eyes to enjoy his sleep, Astro'd make sure that Dandy always gets the best dreams ever.

Astro notices that Dandy hasn't been out of his room for days now. He tried asking Devan (Dandy's handler) about why Dandy is not as energetic and happy as usual, but the respond he received from Devan didn't help at all. Devan'd usually says:

"He's probably just tired, he'll be out in a few days Astro."

That's the type of respond he'd get from Devan, it doesn't help him at all! So, he decided to gather up all of his confidence and enters Dandy's room. He won't be up to something bad, right?

"...Dandy, i think we need to t-talk..."

Astro nervously says, stepping further into his room, he could see Pebble --- aka Dandy's precious pet dog (or rock idk.) lying next to Dandy, sleeping peacefully. Astro's four arms' grip around his blanket tightened as he swallowed his salvia hardly.