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Alphubel had been surprised when he felt the aura of a squire nearby while Alphubel had been on patrol duty. He was about to go and see the squire himself when they started moving toward him and he figured that the best thing to do was to stay put. He had been happy when he had learned that it was a Polaris squire, but unfortunately that feeling had been dashed when the other immediately asked about him being a knight.

It was like a kick to the gut for Alphubel. Did he really look too young to be a full-grown knight? Was he supposed to be a knight? His feelings of inadequacy were coming to the surface again making him nervous about this exchange.

"I-I am." He managed to stutter out a bit as he blushed, really emberassed now that the other clearly seemed to not like the fact that he was a knight. "I'm Alphubel. Uh, what's your name?" He tried to get the conversation to go in a more pleasant direction.

Alphubel jumped a bit as the accent seemed to jump out. "R-right." Alphubel managed to stutter out a bit more before he shook his head and stood a bit taller. Griping his staff helped. It didn't seem as though this squire was going to do anything to him, so Alphubel had no reason afraid of him.

"It's nice to meet you Beringia." Alphubel replied with a nod of the head. Alphubel tilted his head as he thought about how long he had been doing all of this. Not long... he wondered if that meant he shouldn't be at this point or what. "A year and a half about. And no! I'm not uh" he had to remember the word that Beringia had used, "canoodling with agents. Why would I want to do that?" At least unless they wanted to be purified, but one had to make sure that they weren't giving them agent information that could bite the knight later.

Alphubel's face kind of fell. What did he mean by "face that would attract canoodling agents"? Did that mean he looked too innocent? He and his brother both seemed to have baby-faces. That was probably it. However Alphubel did wonder what the other squire was that Beringia was talking about.

However, Alphubel jumped at the chance to describe his wonder. "Oh! It's an observatory on a high mountaintop. Not too high, but high enough so that when the sky is clear, there's a clear view of the stars around it. And I do like being a knight! I'm not sure what it would be like to be a senshi, but being a knight, I feel that I can help more people and it's pretty nice to actually know what's going on with the city rather than just being a victim and the media telling lies." His gut twisted a bit. He hadn't been to his Wonder in quite a few months. He missed that place already. It had been great for studying and for just observing the stars, even if it wasn't in the same pattern as on Earth.

Shaking his head and sighing, Alphubel replied, "No. I've never seen her. Don't even know what she looks like. But I've talked to others who have met with her while she was still active and I feel as though she would welcome me if she was here." He felt a bit bad that he hadn't been able to see their 'leader' that they followed, but he didn't feel unwelcome at all either.

Alphubel just nodded his head up and down at Beringa's cold question. And then he had a hard time keeping up with Beringa's rapid-fire questioning. "Uh, well it was used as a way to keep track of the routes celestial objects were taking and noting down any changes that happened on them." He didn't know if that would be enough to satisfy the 'importance' part of the question, but Alph was pretty sure that all celestial objects that had people living on it should have had some sort of observatory.

He shook his head. "No, I haven't. I mean I didn't have a past life on there. I did have an ancestor though that I got to talk with a bit." He didn't mention that the ancestor was a bit of a troll when it came to offering information, but Alphubel like him all the same.

Alphubel blushed a bit at the compliment. "Well I'm not sure what counts as 'many' agents, but I don't think I've met too many unfortunately." Most of his involvement with the Negaverse seemed to stem from the events around the city that he somehow seemed to be tricked into. "Have... you met a lot of agents Beringia?" He couldn't help but ask. And if this squire had, then perhaps Alphubel could learn about a few that he should be on the lookout for.

Alphubel still wasn't sure of the exact roll of his Wonder, and felt a bit embarrassed that the other didn't think that what Alph had discovered so far was important. And yet again he felt as though he really didn't deserve to be a knight. If he didn't truly know what his Wonder was for, why had he been allowed to become a knight? So many unanswered questions he had.

And the other also questioned having an ancestor. It was like Alphubel didn't really even deserve to be a part of all of this in the first place. Yet another blow.

"I'll... I'll be on the lookout for them then. Paris and Stillvarterite?" The accent was really thick, and Alphubel wasn't sure how the latter's name was supposed to be, but he was sure that he would recognize it. "Thanks for the warning! I wish I could give you some information myself but I don't have any except for... Marcasite. You'll want to watch out for her." Had the other become a General at this point? Was their theme still British mustaches? He wasn't sure, but since they were a Captain, Beringia should be on the lookout for them too.

"Well it was uh, nice meeting you Beringia." Well, it hadn't actually been, if only because the squire had reminded Alphubel of his inadequacies as a knight. "But I have to get going, more patrolling to do and whatnot. If you want you can join me?" Though he was really only asking the question to be polite. Alphubel didn't really feel like patrolling anymore and wanted to go into his apartment and stay holed up a bit feeling sorry for himself.

"R-right. You too then." Alphubel replied, watching the other wander off before sighing. He was going to have to do a lot of thinking and he might go and talk to some other knights to see what he might be doing wrong.