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Teeth chattering and eyes bright with unshed tears, Cruithne, Chibi Sensh of Lavender was most assuredly Not Happy. She didn't want to be out at night amongst strangers. And she certainly didn't want to be out and recognizable as a Terrorist. What would her family say if they ever found out? The thought was too awful to continue.

With a forlorn shake of her head, she wiped a gloved hand across her eyes and stuck to the shadows as much as she could. As far as she was concerned, the only use of being a Senshi was the magic that allowed her to heal others.

Still. Magic healing really wasn't a fair payout for having to fight monsters and having half the city convinced that you were a Bad Guy. Sighing, Cruithne almost missed the strange flicker of a dark aura against her senses. Freezing, she glanced around with wide, frightened blue eyes.

Oh. Oh no.

Oh, this was so very not good! Shrinking in on herself, Cruithne stared up at the dark clad figure with wide eyes as her mouth tried to form words that wouldn't come out.

Okay, so he wasn't trying to hurt her and he only wanted her name, but still. He wasn't anyone she recognized even vaguely. That fact allowed her shyness to gain hold of her tongue and she stood there for several minutes leaking tears as she tried so hard to answer.

Finally, she managed a strangled, whispery, "C-cruithne, senshi of l-lavender."

Clearly this was going to take some time and patience.

Still shrinking in on herself and wide, blue eyes furiously cast about for an escape. Any escape. Or at least something reassuring that she could put her back up against. Barely able to make herself meet his questioner's eyes, Cruithne's hands began to wring and twitch at her dress.

"M-maybe a little," she whispered. "B-but the c-cat said I was s-supposed to."

Oh, she hated that stammer. She hated having to talk to people she didn't know. She could feel the panic in her chest, growing and thumping in time to her own heartbeat. Cruithne very much felt like a baby mouse being stared at by a very bored cat who hadn't yet decided if it was going to eat her or not.

It was a very uncomfortable feeling.

This was, perhaps, the best possible question to have asked her since her lingering confusion over the cat helped to over-ride her mounting terror at being talked to. Blinking owlishly, Cruithe's voice became a little less wavery as she tried to explain.

"I... I don't know a lot. It didn't stick around for very l-long after it woke me up. But i-it gave me my pen and told me what to say."

Brows knit in concentration, Cruithne was very clearly trying to remember everything she'd been told. And though she was no less scared and shy, at least she wasn't so obviously still looking for escape routes.

It was a start.

"It told me I was a senshi and that my j-job was to patrol and help people and fight Chaos. I-i don't like fighting. It scares me."

This last was said in a tiny whisper that the strange man would have had to lean in close to hear.

Homes in the stars? The cat certainly hadn't mentioned that part! Feeling a tinge of bitterness against the cat who'd awakened her, Cruithne sighed and wrapped her thin arms around herself. This was just getting more and more confusing!

"I-i don't understand," she murmured. "I'm s-sorry."

What exactly she was apologizing for, she wasn't entirely sure. For her own ignorance, perhaps. For somehow being born as a terrorist. Just for simply standing before the strange man. Who knew. At least he wasn't yelling. Cruithne couldn't bear being shouted at.

And he said she didn't have to fight if she didn't want to. That right there won her susceptible little heart.

"I can heal people a little bit though," she offered. "I l-like helping like that. Can I still d-do that?"

Cruithne considered that for a moment. The idea that she had her own planet out there somewhere was an interesting one. And something she would have to look into later. But this war.... The chibi senshi shuddered, though from cold or fear, she wasn't sure. How terrible to be part, whether she liked it or not, or some huge, ages old war.

Chewing lightly on her glove covered thumbnail, she tried to reconcile what a strange talking cat had told her was her duty with her own personal creed. She didn't want to hurt anyone. And fighting hurt everyone.

Oh bother.

Tilting her head slightly as she regarded the other senshi, she gave a helpless little shrug and sigh.

"It all seems very confusing right now, sir," she murmured in a soft voice. Thankfully this time without that hateful stammer. "Can I take my family with me when I find my planet?"

She might be nearly thirteen, but in some ways she was still very child-like. If she had to leave the Earth to help protect it, she wanted her family to be able to go with her.

Oh. Feeling a rising wave of sadness at the thought of having to leave her family behind, the purple-haired girl felt more tears building up behind her eyes. She seemed to do doing an awful lot of crying tonight. But... maybe there was a way. She just had to find out. And the tall boy hadn't forbidden it entirely. If she could find a way...

Well. She'd just have to find a way. That was all there was to it.

"Where is your planet, sir?" she asked in a small voice, wanting to learn more. Frankly, the scary boy was a lot more informative than the cat had been.