It hadn't been very long since Ainsley had been awakened as Sailor Chibi Hypnos by her Turkish Van, Guardian Cat Cora. A lot of things had happened and she had learned just as much but she still was not familiar with so much of the world, so much of her powers. She didn't wonder why she had the ability to power up into another side of her, or that Octavian Oswald seemed to appear with a new identity as well, but she wondered just what she could do. She remembered that she had been able to create sand, or was it dust, in her hands. It was interesting, but was it very useful? She couldn't protect Mister Birdy with it, or help Big Kitty with it. Actually, she wasn't sure what she could do with it.
This lead Ainsley to stray when she was walking home from school. She didn't take her usual path that followed the sidewalk and continued all the way around until she reached home. This time she decided to go through the park, deep into the park until she was far off the path and could only see the trees around her. No longer could she see the road, or the children playing in the field -- it was the perfect spot for the child to power up into Sailor Chibi Hypnos. It was safe for her to experiment her abilities and carefully the flattened her skirt below her rear and sat down on the grassy ground below her feet.
Her blue eyes carefully scanned the area, finding a small flower blooming beside her. It was a violet in colour but Sailor Chibi Hypnos wasn't sure what it was called. It was pretty though. After a moment of admiring the flower, the child closed her eyes slowly and tried to concentrate. That sand, that dust, what was it exactly? How did it work? What did it do? She held her hands out, forming a cup with her two hands as she concentrated, trying to summon the sand that had always come to her aid. To her surprise, the dust began to form in her cupped hands until it was nearly overflowing in them.
"Ah! I got some!"
She stared at it intently, trying to wonder just what it could do. She couldn't imagine what sort of ability this could have, just what could dust do? If she ran some experiments, surely she could find out what it did, right? She found her eyes falling back on the flower beside her, and after a moment she carefully sprinkled a little bit of the dust onto the flower beside her and watched as it landed on the petals and fell into the gaps between them and then almost immediately as the flower seemed to droop as if it had fallen asleep. She giggled at it. How strange it was!
Her giggles had intrigued a squirrel down from the tree above her and soon the little curious beast found itself beside the child's bunny dressed feet. She wiggled her feet carefully, startling it enough to make it jump back but drawing its curiosity greater. What would the dust do to it? The question rang in the back of the child's head until finally she tossed her handful of dust into the air, having the wind blow it in all sorts of directions including the squirrel and her face. She let out a squeak as it hit her face but nothing seemed to happen to her even though she could feel the dust on her face and in the corner of her eyes. The squirrel seemed to limber up and fall to either side much like a drunk man until it finally collapsed on the ground.
"What happened?" She seemed to ask the very wind around her as she slowly found herself getting closer to the squirrel on the ground. It wasn't moving this time! Oh no, did her power hurt it? What would she do if she had harmed an animal? She'd never be able to forgive herself if she hurt this poor, innocent squirrel! How could it hurt it! It didn't hurt the flower! She carefully moved her hand towards it and with a pointed finger the child pressed it against the pelt of the animal. To her surprise and joy, the squirrel leapt up and scurried back into the tree. It had only been asleep!
"Oh thank goodness!" She smiled, waving to the squirrel as it disappeared into the foliage.
There was much in the world she didn't know yet, but at least know she knew a little bit more about her abilities. She would stay here, deep in the cover of the trees, thinking on it all, before finally going home with her new found knowledge. Perhaps Cora would listen to her tale and maybe if she was lucky she could find out how her ability worked on a Guardian Cat!
