Up until last year Arian would have considered January 7th an unremarkable date - it was seven days into January, a day like any other day - hardly the sort of thing to stick in memory.
Last year, however he had been out patrolling in the late hours of January 7th as his senshi counterpart Athene and his path had crossed with that of the Nega-General Painite and since that day the date had become forever etched in his mind as the day of his biggest failure as a senshi to date.
Painite had tried to kill him - had in fact come scarily close to yanking his star seed - but an unknown senshi and ********* had intervened and saved his life.
As Athene he had survived the encounter as a newly upgraded eternal with a scar on his side from Painite's spear to act as a permanent reminder of the night however the other senshi hadn't been so lucky.
There had a footnote in the paper a few days later, about a dead student from Hillworth that had been found in the area that had left Arian wondering if the teen had perhaps been his mysterious saviour, but he had never seen the other unpowered - didn't even know the other's senshi name.
Arian wasn't sure when he had come to the decision to lay flowers for the unknown senshi on the one year anniversary, but Farah's Garden had come to mind as a place where he could potentially pick up the flowers. He'd hesitated at first however, mindful of Orah's injuries and the fact that his friend's right hand was currently in a cast but eventually Arian had decided to drop by the flower shop and have a look at the pre-made bouquets to see if he could find anything.
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