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The park was a haunt Navi hadn't visited in a long time. Not since she and Chaonis had met here, confessing their feelings to each other before throwing caution to the wind. Theirs was a dangerous, frustrating path, but in the end, despite the hardships and the pain, it was all worth it. They made it work, because they had to make it work. There was no other option for them. The phones helped, easing the awful weight of worry that settled on the heart throughout the whole of their days away. It wasn't idle, far from it, but what little they had they would cherish.

Tonight was no exception. They couldn't take traditional dates, not yet, but they could do this. A walk through the park. It was such a simple thing, but it meant the world to the Dark Mirror, and she knew Chaonis felt the same.

She didn't laugh when she saw the flowers. Instead she felt her lips pulling up at the sides as she came strolling up the path towards the fountain. "Those are lovely. Are they meant for someone important?" Petite, delicate in feature, she pulled of coy very well. Mischief betrayed only by the subtly twinkle in hazel eyes.

When she reached him she lay her hands on his arms, going up on tip toe so she could lay a kiss on his chin, then his lips if he'd tip his head down for her.

Navi's smile turned down right devilish at the banter. "Is she a pretty girl?" As if she didn't know. Though recent scars had left her feeling a little self conscious. Chaonis assured her she was every bit as lovely, that the gash that cut across one side of her face didn't take away from beauty, but she stil caught herself reaching for it at times. Now was no exception, the tips of glove covered fingers brushed lightly over the healing mark, coaxed a ginger curl to hang just so.

The kiss was a light thing, sweet and tender, as he placed the flowers in her hands, and as settled back on her heels she'd draw in that sweet scent on a deep breath. "Mmm." An appreciative hum.

Compliments had her grinning, but the DMC nodded. "I got a little color. Impossible to be out in that sun and not." She'd been lucky not to come back looking like a lobster, but Raven had kept her well stocked up on sun screen through out the whole of their stay.

Small fingers came up to curl over his arm as he offered it, and she slid in close, resting her temple against his shoulder as they started to walk. "I'm doing very good. Glad to be home."

"Oh. Hey Ida," Chaonis said, blinking in surprise as Ida came up toward them during their pseudo date. So far, Chaonis had managed to keep his relationship status pretty close to his chest, but after what happened with Painite, it hardly seemed important to keep things quiet any more.

It was pretty easy to figure out that Chaonis was dedicated to the Black Mirror Senshi. She was everything to him, and he was losing the will to deny it now. Be it pride or some weird sense of needing to be tough, he always had trouble admitting his feelings.

With Navi, though, things were different.

"Uh. Ida, this is Navi. Have you guys met? She's my uh." He trusted Ida, as one of his dearest friends and someone he owed a lot to. He would fight for her just as hard as he fought for his own family, and considered her one of the strongest members of the White Moon. "Well. My girlfriend."

If the flowers and them walking together so closely did not say that already.

He had the feeling that their paths must have crossed at some point, right? The city was only so big. But he had a hard time keeping up with who knew whom.

Her friend seemed surprised to see her, but not upset, which was a good thing. It had been so long since she'd seen him last... it would be easy to drift apart and the friendship to fade. He introduced the girl with him as his girlfriend and Ida's eyes widened.

There were a lot of issues that came to mind with such a relationship... particularly sharing civilian identities, unless you wanted to keep your love powered side only forever. She hadn't even trusted Chariklo with her civilian life... Ida wondered if Chaonis trusted Navi with his.

Still, when the other woman stepped forward, Ida went to meet her with a wide, warm smile. She took her hand and gave it a firm squeeze before she leaned in for a one armed hug.

"Hello! Its so nice to meet you, Navi. Chaonis's girlfriend? That's wonderful news." She said as she released her hug, sharing her smile in her friend's direction as well. "Its been a long time since I saw him last, this is a pleasant surprise."

"I've only met a handful of Dark Mirrors, actually... Remarque, Tantalus... Chariklo and Amytis." There were more, undoubtedly, but bringing up wibbly timelines seemed a poor idea right now. They had enough to deal with in the present. "If I'm interrupting something, I can leave you two to your walk. I just make it a habit to check on power signatures I feel nearby. You never know who you'll run into."

"Oh! Chaonis! I don't know if you heard, but Athene and I moved into an apartment together." Ida perked up as she remembered. "I can send you the address, you should visit sometime! Athene has a Mauvian now, named Liryn, and he's sort of become the team cat. You should meet him too."

The hug was unexpected, catching Navi off guard as Ida pulled her in for a gentle squeeze. Pale eyes widened, shoulders tensing, before what was happening really sank in. Not an attack, not a threat, just a friendly gesture from a friend of her prince. She was alright with that.

Painite's latest attack had left the Dark Mirror a lot more skittish. even in her civilian life she was always attentive of her surroundings, always paid attention to who was around her and what they were doing. It wasn't quite as bad as it had been when Raven had swept her straight from the hospital to California, but she still startled easily, and strangers, even supposed allies, were viewed with a certain amount of wariness.

But she smiled at Ida as they parted, honestly happy that the other woman seemed so very accepting of her. It had been a long time since Navi had met a White Moon senshi that was not immediately suspicious of her or down right hostile.

"I know Remarque, and Chariklo." Their names were said softly, almost guiltily. Allies, the both of them, and she was aiming to walk away from them and the rest of their court at her first opportunity.

She fell quiet again as Ida filled Chaonis in on the recent happenings of his friends, dropping back to stand at his side so she could reclaim his hand with a slip of delicate fingers through his own. The names exchanged weren't ones Navi knew, or at least she didn't think so. Athene sounded vaguely familiar, but she wasn't sure if she'd met the senshi or if that familiarity was from greek mythology.

Chaonis looked down at her and she looked up, brows lifting curiously before he filled her in on his place in a team, and what that team was. The seemingly random letters didn't make any sense to her, and her head tilted gently to one side. "What does PSSG stand for?"

Chaonis laughed as he noticed Navi's expression, shaking his head. She was about as good at being hugged by strangers as he was, it seemed, which was good for him. Of course, he gave everyone he met absolutely no reason to want to hug him, so he could at least avoid it that way. She was not quite jerk-ish enough for that tactic, though.

That was one of the many things he adored about her.

He let Ida field the question about the name of the group, nodding his head along with her. He felt like the name was more apt than ever, really, as Painite had been stepping up her game against their members, and been opening up chances for others to join up if they wanted to.

Anyone that got away from one of her attacks knew what it felt like.

"Yeah, well, whatever we're called, we're a good group. I mean, I've never been much of a team player, but these guys are all good people. They stick up for each other when they need the help, and I'm lucky to just know them let alone get to pretend I'm part of the group. Maybe you can meet the others some time, Navi. I think it would be good to have, you know, some more allies. In case anything... bad happens again, like before."

He got a little more serious now, speaking about what happened to Navi, and remembering all the fear and pain that happened because of it. It was not a set of memories he was particularly glad to recall, but he couldn't avoid them, either.

Ida caught the motion that turned into a brush of the hair and her face gentled in understanding and sympathy. Scars seemed to come with the territory... everyone had them. Lifting a hand, she ran a forefinger across her ribs where the pristine white of her uniform hid the ugly twist of raised flesh there.

"I have a long scar that starts here and ends... here. Chaonis knows this one. I was a basic senshi and she caught me in an empty construction lot. I was no match for a general and I barely managed to get a call off to him before she hit me with her spear." Ida kept her eyes carefully away from the senshi of danger and focused instead on his girlfriend as she offered a comforting smile. Her fingers moved lower, circling a spot in the soft flesh below. "I have a newer one here, where she stabbed me with the broken handle of her spear. I was in the hospital for weeks, afterward."

Ida clasped her hands in front of her then.

"We've all got things like that, so we all understand, a little bit, what its like. Its why we're working together, and why we try to help people. I'm sure Tsui and Athene would like to meet you too. Its good to know people, I think, and make connections... we're always strong when we work together. I've only ever gotten hurt when I tried to do something alone, so I value the people I can call allies."