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Ume came in close behind, her face was a mask, but her eyes were worried. She had her own news to share, she'd met some of the Zodiac's, not much to share perhaps, she really didn't know but still.
Her fingers brushed the table as she approached Rea, the look on her face though.

"Hey... you ok?" She asked soft enough that it was just them, not the rest of the coffee shop.

She pulled off her own red coat and folded it over her arm for a moment, paused and then fished a little box out of her coat pocket, a tiny thing of white cardboard with a bit of lace. "here.. for later, theirs a book too but, I forgot it." She said with a little smile.

Rea hadn't answered when Eve had mentioned she was quiet. She had merely brushed it off the entire way to the coffee shop, responding in two word, cryptic answers that didn't at all answer the question or respond well to the statement, her eyes on her roommate, but her mind obviously other places. She hadn't told Eve yet that Charys had decided to leave their team, although she had briefly brushed on what had happened inside the hospital, ending their brief conversation with 'I'll explain at the meeting.'

Pulling one of the chairs out from beneath the table, she was just taking a seat when Ume appeared, Rea's eyes lifting to the black-haired girl as she leaned down to murmur low to her and her roomie, giving a non-committal nod at her question. Blinking a little in surprise when she produced the box, Rea took it gently between her fingertips, giving it a slow look over before putting it aside for later as she had suggested, giving her an appreciative look. "Thank you... that's very sweet of you," she replied in an even tone, just a hint of the true appreciation touching her voice. She didn't smile.

"Do we know if the others are coming?"

"I -think- thier coming?" Ume said glancing out the windows hoping to see someone walking in.
"I have news too! I met another team the other night! They had a princess, and...well I'll wait..." She said flashing a small smile.
Better not to explain it twice.

Flora. Ume. And herself made three. Blue-green eyes shifted a little as Delphine appeared, putting her ipod away and giving a surprising amount of attention towards the other three girls, and Rea added another mental tally to their count. Without Charys, their team had been bumped down from seven to six. That left two more unaccounted for. One of which being their guardian cat.

Ume's words brought her back from her head-count, and Rea's expression shifted momentarily away from the flat, blank expression she had had before, genuinely surprised. "Another team?" For some reason, the news was relatively comforting to Rea. It meant their 'establishment' wasn't going to be held completely accountable for all of destiny city. To Helios, it was the princess part that really focused their entire attention on Ume, an almost undetectable flicker of gold in her eyes.

"They have a princess?"

What if it was her? She would know where the prince was, surely... she would... meow?

"Oh, Chloe."

As soon as she realized their guardian cat was stuck outside, the strawberry blonde senshi was standing, pushing away from the table and moving towards the door, sliding her coat back over her shoulders. Truth was, Rea was looking for an excuse to get up. An excuse for a normally painfully calm senshi to fidget. Pushing open the door, she went to sit down on the bench Chloe had leaped up onto, flipping open her cell phone and pretending to have no connection with the cat, just in case. With the cat directly behind her like that, she could talk without suspicion. And with the cell phone, it wouldn't look like she was crazy. "Beth not coming?" Rea asked, staring off into the street and reaching back to open her hood a bit, so the cat could climb in.

"It'll come with time," Rea replied, nodding in reply and momentarily forgetting she was suppose to be on a cell phone. For some reason, just having Chloe there was enough to calm the senshi's nerves a bit, muscles she hadn't known she'd been tensing relaxing as she listened to the cat's typical annoyed tone. It was comforting, in a way she couldn't really explain without diving into a speech about responsibility and sharing leadership and experience and things that she would find very difficult to say aloud. Instead, she slid down the bench a little so Chloe could climb into her hood, looking like a slouching teenager until the Siamese had settled herself in the bottom of the hood.

"Not yet. Everyone else is inside," she replied, making sure the cat was comfortable before straightening. If she noticed that Chloe's thanks was unusual, she didn't say anything about it.Instead she stood calmly, brushing the snow off her skirt before opening the door the the cafe again, going to sit back down with the others and placing her coat gently on the table so Chloe would have a hiding spot. "We'll fill Beth in when she arrives," she clicked the cell phone shut, staring at it for a moment before glancing up at the other senshi.

A few seconds of silence went by.

"Charys is gone," she said a little brusquely, "She left the team."

"A princess?" Eve echoed. She probably wasn't the only senshi that had that longing to find their princess, she had figured, although no one would know yet that her princess was different from the moon princess most of the senshi out there. It was interesting though, to hear news of another team, and though Eve was curious, they had to wait for Beth and Chlo-- oh. The meow had caught her attention too, and she waited as Rea went over to get her.

And now they all knew the reason of Rea's silence earlier. Charys... was gone? "Where did she go?" Eve asked quietly, a small frown appearing on her face. How could she just leave like that?

Rea kept a straight face through the 'why's, 'where's and 'nice going's, that feeling of inadequacy that was slowly getting familiar to her beginning to coil in her stomach, unsettling her. Surprisingly, despite the accusing, belittling speech on Delphine's part, it was Eve and Ume's answers that were really eating her alive. The way they were looking at her, expectantly, confused, seeking answers that she could not fully give was worse than the anger. Anger she would deal with.

"I don't know why. Likely something to do with someone we lost... I don't know who, yet," She replied a little weakly, a suspicious feeling in her gut telling her she did not really want to know who it was, "And Florida. She said Florida. Probably more of Charys' humor."

Rea let her voice trail off at that, looking tense and guilty as well as a little heartbroken, despite all her efforts. Nemesis' words were the last straw. It was the outlet for her own feeling of worthlessness, generously supplied by a senshi she already thought to be her rival of sorts. That... and she knew she could handle it. Digging her fingertips into the table, Rea leaned across it at the other girl, looking fierce and angry -- an uncommon look for the strawberry-blonde girl.

"I did NOT let her go," She replied, her voice tight. She conveniently did not bring up that it was Charys who had elected her in the first place. "I didn't want this job, if you'll recall. But I don't see you stepping up and begging for it either. I may not be a good leader, but at least I know what is going on! If you want to leave, leave, but don't use Charys' departure and my failure as an excuse for your own cowardice!"