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Summer was halfway gone, school would start again soon, and so Maggie Lawrence was trying to live it up. Given that she was 14 and had a curfew, that meant sneaking out as Sailor Auriga if she wanted to hit the town after 9PM.

The teenager had already hit up a bar... sort of. She just wanted to listen to the live music so she sat cross legged on the roof and swayed back in forth to the band playing inside. When that got boring, she jogged over to the DC Carnival and liberated herself an ice cream sandwich thanks to an open window. One-handed, Auriga then climbed the ferris wheel, just like Tris did in Divergent. "I am... divergent," she whispered to the wind, chuckling to herself and licking ice cream from her fingertips. For thirty minutes, she quoted the book out loud and wondered where her Four was.

It was close to 11PM now, the moon and stars bright and twinkling. Her eyes fixated on the town sprawling out ahead of her, all lights and darkness. A sudden wash of loneliness spread over the girl. Being a senshi was fun, but being a senshi alone was... less fun. The swell of feeling was really harshing her buzz so Auriga decided that her night was probably over.

Ambling down from the ferris wheel, the Senshi of Pestilence began to climb down as carefully as possible.

The voice startled Auriga on her descent. Metal rattled as she gripped the scaffolding suddenly, nearly losing her footing. "Hey, what's the big idea!" she shouted, still not facing the source of the sound. "Can't you see I'm climbing down here -- OHHHH." Blue eyes had turned and fixated on what was a kitty. Yessssss, clearly this was a guardian cat that she would make her guardian cat.

With an oof, Auriga landed on the ground and crossed a few paces to where the hairless cat reclined. "Pettings are free -- I love cats. I'm great to cats," she said, already auditioning herself for the role of Owner (a title that she did not think would be offensive to a guardian cat, foolishly). She peeled off a glove, tucked it into her belt, and then began gently scratching behind the cat's ears. "Your skin feels so weird. Awesome!"

Oh, right... hadn't he asked her something? "Haven't seen anybody yet," she said. Did that mean this one already had a senshi owner? Auriga didn't plan to go down without a fight. "Though I am always willing to try new things -- spicy things, even. I'm Sailor Auriga... you are?"

"Pestilence," Auriga replied, trailing her nails down his spine in smooth, even strokes. "I have to bite people though. Super gross. Some of them vomit after." Once, that had happened. It had been glorious. Glorious, and disgusting. "I feel really shafted about it. Like, I get to be some apocalypse sphere and other senshi get to run around as the, like, Senshi of Glitter or Sunshine or whatever. You know, there is a Senshi of RAINBOWS? Rainbows, for crying out loud! Some people have all the luck."

A pout formed on her lips.

Auriga had never met a chibi senshi before, though a few people had made jokes that she seemed like an overgrown one. If she had been awakened just one year earlier, she would have begun with the muted powers of a chibi too. That would have been super annoying so the Senshi of Pestilence felt a lot of relief that Derp had stumbled upon her when she did.

From Ballard's description, this particular chibi senshi seemed feisty. "Is she... your senshi? Like, you live with her?" Auriga asked, a note of hopefulness in her voice.

Speaking of, the girl appeared to be approaching, judging from the aura and, well, voice.

Hm... so it seemed Ballard's housing situation may be temporary. Auriga did love a challenge. "Do you ever get over to the Foxridge Oaks neighborhood? I live there. It's a nice house, lot of--" Her attempt at enticing Ballard to consider an alternate living situation was thwarted as the aforementioned Angry Senshi Girl sprang onto the scene.

Ballard had been right about the girl's frustration. "Dimensional Bag of Holding? Hermione had one of those." She turned to Ballard. "Do guardian cats give them out because I could so think of, like, 107 uses for one?"

Blue eyes strayed back to the younger senshi. "I have no food with me," she said. "I'm Sailor Auriga, Senshi of Pestilence. And you are?" Formal introductions seemed like a good idea, especially if Auriga was going to steal away her cat.

A cat trick, shoot. Auriga would love to use a super bag. She could keep all kinds of things in it. Granted, if Ballard were hers, maybe he would hold her things for her? She smiled warmly at the guardian cat, still aiming at entice him -- or any cat -- to join her instead. But the chibi senshi was demanding her attention first.

"How does that work, anyway?" Auriga asked. "Like, you turn 14 and then BAM! All new fuku and you are suddenly way more powerful?"

Actually that sort of sounding like fun, like when Auriga had first been woken up. "What is your attack? Like... what can you do?" It was endlessly interesting to her how many different magics people had. And also endlessly annoying that she had met no one else who had to bite their opponent to enact magic, like she did.

Sigh, worst sphere ever.

"Whoa, bop around and act blind -- what? Mine makes people, like, vomit. Super gross. I'm feeling pretty lucky that I got called at 14, none of that coming of age stuff," Auriga said, nodding. "Plus, I don't know how a younger version of me would have handled all the crime fighting." She startled when Ballard mentioned her attack, but then remembered that all guardian cats were senshi experts who knew everything.

Auriga was super forgetful sometimes about what she said because she just talked so damn much (whoops).

"Wow, Moon Eater is way cooler than Plague Bite," she said shaking her head. "So, zombie movies, eh? You ever go to the drive-in over on the west side? There is a building near to it, real great roof. Can sit there for movies and no one even notices you."

Auriga had done that more than once. Really, she used her secret identity to do more fun things than fighting things. Sue her, she was a kid.