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 Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:42 pm
The theater that was to serve as a meeting place, for this meeting and others to follow, was an old charming building really. With the doors opening to a round reception room of sorts which was where the ticket room was, off to the right side of the circular room. Beyond that the round room opened into a larger room done in dark, rich, colors where the counter was to the left. The machines were no longer there and only the glass counter remained to show what had once taken place on that side of the room. To the right were doors, glass, that lead to two different theaters while if one looked straight ahead there was the bathrooms, girls and boys. It was to straight ahead and to the right where a set of stairs appeared, going somewhere up and to the left dissappearing behind a wall, that light tapping sounds came from.
Benitoite waited, pacing the stairs just out of sight. Leto was due any time now, she should be coming in through the backroom that lead right into the ticket room. It was how the ticket taker left and went out to the back alley which ran along the length of the buildings backside to take a break.
After his talk with Remarque he'd gone home and sent a text to Leto, he needed to speak with her and had sent her a text saying just as much as well as telling her where to meet him and how to get in. The front doors were boarded up so she couldn't get in unless she went in through the backdoor, which he'd earlier broken so she could do just that.
Black fabric hit the wall as he spun on his heel and began his pacing once again. Once she arrived they could move this to the large theater on the second floor and talk. If someone should sense them and follow them they would have time to respond and come down the stairs and peer around the wall to see whoever was...visiting.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:51 pm
Quinn had stared at the flashing cellphone in her hand for a few minutes. Opening the newly received text message was like opening a can of worms for her- once she read one, she would have to read the dozens of others that had been left for her over the last 3 months of her absence. Her team knew she was alive, and in her mind? That was all that they needed to know. Apparently they seemed to disagree.
She opened her text messages and saw the extensive list before her, a frown settling upon her lips. She clicked on the newest, from Alex, and her eyes quickly skimmed over it. At least it was powered-up business. With that, she quietly called upon her asteroid and slipped back into her comfortable existence as Eternal Sailor Leto.
As if it were second-nature for her, she slipped through a mirror and walked out of the closest one she knew of to the theater Alex had asked her to meet him at. Walking the the rest of the way, her hands were clasped behind her back, her eyes narrowed suspiciously- overly aware of everything and everyone around her. She had become awfully paranoid in the last few months.
Pushing her way through the back door of the theater, she felt like she was punched in the face with the power signature of a Negaverse General. How odd. She couldn't feel any other power signatures around... Had Alex decided not to come and sent a General in his place?
She quickly made her way to the power signature and stopped in her tracks.
"Benitoite?" She said quietly, an eyebrow raised, taking in the sight of the navy blue and black clad General before her.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:04 pm
Turning, blond hair floating about his face caught up in the air as he turned rather quickly. "Leto." Smiling he stepped down toward her and rather than offering a hand he hugged her. "It's been too long and much has changed. I worried, I hadn't heard from or of you." He spoke stepping back, the worry for her evident in his voice.
"Tell me you've been well." He hoped she would tell him that, he hoped she hadn't been hurt or ill, even if she hadn't been seen nor heard from. He'd honestly prefer that over her being hurt or sick. She was a friend and so he hoped for her well being over their communication.
As he had stepped back he motioned her to follow him up the stairs. "The theater upstairs is quite large and nice. It's a bit creepy here but I think, if you find the reason for my calling you here to be worthwhile, useful for what I have in mind. The idea wasn't mine, to use this place, but the upstairs is my idea." Gloved fingers ran through his hair, tugging on the blond strands gently. "A lot has changed - happened - recently and it's come to my attention that you and others don't know and...you and a few others need to be aware and something should be done."
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:06 pm
Leto's lips quickly turned downwards in a frown when she saw the look of concern on his face and worry in his voice. It seemed she had that effect on people as of late.
"I've been...." her voice lowered for a moment as she thought about it. "I've been okay." That was a bit of an overstatement. She was half-decent at best, most days. She hadn't been hurt or ill though, which was definitely a plus.
She quickly matched his pace and moved up the stairs to the theater. "What do you plan to do with this place?," she asked quietly, taking in the large, mildly creepy room around her. "If you mean the Negaverse meeting that occurred a few months back, I'm in the know, for the most part. Is there more going on that I'm unaware of? I fell off the face of Destiny City for a while, but I've still been in close-contact with Ares and the Negaverse pretty often."
Leto would be pretty pissed to know that there was information that was very inconveniently not relayed to her. But then again... Maybe her absence is the reason she was so unaware of everything.
"I see I definitely missed out on a very important promotion within the Negaverse, though." She beamed at him as she finally had a chance to completely take in his new look. "Congratulations."
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:22 pm
"I don't know what you know but I know others in your team are clueless about the meeting. I worry for your members who are out there, as few as they are, and may find themselves against a white moon senshi but also some of our lower ranked member who may be out. I don't see any way for your team members to contact others, unless I'm clueless on communications of your court." He spoke his tone serious and lacking in the normally very friendly manner he spoke to Leto in. She was a friend, a good friend he'd even say, but business was business.
"The Negaverse, in case you weren't told, has been ordered to not fight the senshi or collect energy from the people of Destiny. So many of our ranks are no out at night which leaves those of us, and your court members, vulnerable if they should be cornered by a senshi they cannot handle or multiple senshi. I hope you can seethe problem of this, this lack of communication and sharing of information - full disclosure of changes in direction." For he had seen it as soon as he'd spoken to the blond senshi of the dark mirror. It could lead to problems for the lowest ranks especially.
Finally he cracked a smile and laid a hand on her shoulder. "I would not say I'm important but you did miss it. Thank you, and a congratulations to you on yours as well, if I've not said it already." Looking around the theater he was glad for the size of the room, it would come in handy for the plans he had.
"We are you, in this theater, because one of your members gave me the idea. Remarque told me to use this place, and I have to say it was a very good idea."
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:55 pm
"It's my fault. Ares doesn't communicate with them directly, that's my job. And instead of telling my Court about what happened in the meeting, I got caught up in my own bullshit and disappeared."
Her arms crossed over her chest as she leaned back against a very creaky wall. "In any case, I'll make sure now that they are all in the know. And we communicate with mirrored compacts instead of the Senshi phone or Crystals that you guys use."
She stood silently for a moment, taking in the information he was relaying to her. "I knew you guys were reorganizing... I didn't realize how much that put us at risk, particularly with the more aggressive Senshi and Knights out there."
She ran her fingers through a few strands of hair that had fallen loose from her ponytail.
"What are we using it for? A safe place for meeting?" She figured that with this new information, along with her having to explain her disappearance, a meeting place was probably an incredibly good idea.
"Either way, I like it. It's a nice, big, open space."
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:11 pm
"It is alright, nothing to be held against you if something happened to you. I think, this being war, it will happen to us all. I know I had issues myself when I first killed. Quite the mental turmoil really." Not that he knew it was a similar thing which had upset Leto and kept her from informing her court of things. How could he know, he would wish he'd been there to help were he to find out.
"Indeed, I have continued to patrol in case a member of your court or my own finds themself in danger. I won't allow something to happen when I can out at night and aid any who may come of need. But you see the problem I saw." He stated, how could she not? It was rather obvious the problem with information being passed along, it could lead to injuries or worse.
"A place for meetings and training. The weaker members must train. With so few allies out to help they must learn to better defend themselves. I have asked Remarque to speak with members of your court to bring them here this weekend for a meeting. I thought it best to also speak with you and invite you as well, as it is your court as well and you can of course help. I hope that we can help everyone protect themselves this way and pass on any information we may come across." His own fingers ran through his hair while he moved around, a few steps in any direction, slate eyes taking in the open area. The chairs and isles would give them some difficulty but it could also help them in training, giving some measure of difficulty which could assist those training here.
"I have not met many who are aggressive, not to say I haven't, but I've been lucky so far. But I want us all prepared for this, to come out of this war as intact as possible."
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:16 pm
She smiled at Benitoite when he had mentioned having issues when he had first killed. "That was my issue. I mean, I was part of the big Blood Moon torture-and-kill-Negas thing, and I'm sure I've killed in large battles. But this was my first one-on-one. I'm okay though. Just needed some time to come to terms with it."
She waved a hand in the air as if to dismiss the topic of conversation and move on.
"They definitely need training. I've had some sessions with a few members previously that I believe are on the right track. I believe that the Dark Mirror Court very much needs to initiate what the Blood Moon did when I joined- if there is one thing that that Court did, it was training us."
Her eyes rolled at the mention of Remarque, who at this point was pretty much her least favorite person ever. "I'm sure he thinks that he is the most amazing fighter in the history of ever and is above doing any training himself."
She stopped herself, biting her tongue before she continued to rant about her teammate. Taking a deep breath to calm herself, she nodded and smiled again.
"I'll make sure the untrained ones are not patrolling alone until further notice. They desperately need to learn to use their compacts more often to ask for help when it's needed. I think quite a few of them are under the impression that they're ******** invincible out there and it's time they realize they're not."
Her right leg raised and she planted her foot against the back of one of the chairs.
"This place will work. We should try to train as civilians as well, to increase our strength and decrease our chance of Order sensing us being here."
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:38 pm
As she waved her hand he dismissed the topic and didn't mention anything. He knew of her involvement, not in what way but that she had simply been involved, in the torture event. She'd told him that herself so he knew that and ignored it. But he would agree, there was certainly a difference of killing in the heat of battle and killing one on one, of watching them die and the light go out in their eyes. It was a big difference, one he'd never forget.
Sighing, nothing more than an exhale of breath, he quirked a smile and shrugged. "I wouldn't know, I haven't gotten any words from him that would indicate that to me. But I am also sure you know him more than I, I've only met him twice. But yes, the Blood Moon Court had the idea right if they believed in training.
"Some may also think we may be around to help them, that we are out in numbers at night. Which we are unfortunately not. I will, if you need and wish, team up with one of your members and keep an eye on them. I don't wish to see any of them hurt." He was sincere as he spoke and made to sit on the balcony which separated the second level of seating from the isle which divided the second level and the bottom first level.
Staring at her for a moment he blinked. That was an idea, one he hadn't thought. "I know I do running in the mornings but that's not enough. You are right and I never would have thought of that. We will do that as well. Perhaps alternate, one meeting powered and one meeting not?" It was a brilliant idea really and he was smiling brightly at her as he observed the eternal senshi. "Together I think we can help train them into good soldiers." He wouldn't say amazing or great, good was enough for now.
"Remarque and I spoke of this Saturday night as the first meeting. Five minutes after midnight but members can be late. We want a trickle of people arriving rather than all at once and risk attracting attention to ourselves." He hoped she approved of the idea and time and he waited to hear her opinion on the planned meeting time.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:38 pm
Leto couldn't help but grin when Benitoite said she was right, proud of having a good idea. It was things like this that made her feel validated as a leader.
"We make a good team, Benitoite. I don't doubt for a second that we can turn our troops into good, strong soldiers. It's not just about my Court though. The Negaverse can and should get involved as well. I know Howlite does some training in the Rift, but if anyone wanted to play with us Senshi to get a sense of battling against magic... I can say that I'm happy to do it. I'm sure there are others in the Court that would be as well."
She brushed some stray bangs away from her face in a moment of thought, running through her schedule in her mind quickly. "Saturday should be just fine. I'll get the message out to the Court and make sure that they're all prepared for it."
Pushing herself off of the chair, she stood to her feet. "I'll see you Saturday," she said with a smile. "Always a pleasure chatting with you, darlin'!" She added with a wink before moving back towards the stairs.
She would explore downstairs quickly, sure to find a mirror to slip through to continue on her patrol.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:42 am
Watching as she got up and left he smiled at her retreating back. "Indeed, a good team we do make." He hadn't thought about a mirror, and making sure one was around. Perhaps he still needed to consider some things, such as assuring a mirror's presence in the building.
While he thought of that he pondered what else Leto had told him. Howlite was holding training down in the rift. he hadn't known, or remembered, that. But the senshi really couldn't go down there and he wanted to include them, as the allies of the Negaverse, in the training sessions so he liked his idea. It would allow them to learn to work together and teach agents how to work against magic, like Leto had said.
Tapping his foot he found himself smiling further. "Indeed, I think this will work wonderfully." Now it was time to make his own way home. Moving around the theater he blew out the candles he had and left them behind as he headed downstairs. He'd look for mirrors while he walked out of here.
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