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Nembus had started to take up a normal patrol route, if it could be called that, within one of the shopping districts near the home she shared with Jade. Admittedly, it was for mostly selfish reasons.

... Okay, entirely selfish reasons.

Fundamentally, Nembus was a good person. She wanted people to like her. She wanted to be friendly. She wanted people to understand and people to understand her, people to adore and people to adore her -- but she also gained pangs of jealousy every time anyone else had something she didn't. Considering she basically emerged as a newborn baby somewhere around three months ago, it wasn't terribly hard to have more than Delilah. Most people did. Most everyone did, even the babies that were barely a few months old. They had more lived life than her, even if they couldn't remember it.

Going to the shopping district, in some ways, allowed her to indulge the baser instinct to make herself more even with others. If they had something she didn't, no problem. She could just take it, perhaps after a bit of draining so she could say she had filled her necessary quotas. Nembus could even slip into a shop relatively unnoticed, pluck something off the shelves, and slip back out with it, dehenshining once she found a corner so they couldn't chase her down.

Perhaps she should have felt bad about it.

The thought was passed over as she lifted a starseed from someone and tucked it into her pocket.

And also a pair of boots.

The sudden greeting nearly caused her to drop the boots unceremoniously, and her cheeks flamed for a moment as she realized she was once again caught in the act. Was this another senshi like her? What was he the senshi of?

"Ah," Nembus cleared her throat, "I'm done now, anyway."

Nervously, she kicked the unconscious body to the side.

O-oh.

Nembus was not necessarily expecting for the other senshi to seem so merry about picking up the boots and giving them back to her. Amazone had not been hostile, necessarily, but she certainly hadn't been so encouraging. Teasing, maybe. Also similarly as clueless as she was, Nembus figured. That might have explained some of Amazone's behaviour. She wasn't sure what could explain this behaviour, except perhaps that this senshi wanted to join in--

And he did, oh--

"Nembus, of Electromagnetism," offered Nembus, with a sheepish, confused smile, offering him the hand that wasn't holding a pair of boots she definitely did not just take from a body that was lying unconscious just a few feet away. Definitely not. Nembus had always had the boots. Obviously.

Of course, this man seemed to be encouraging her. Maybe she could find someone else nearby with something she needed. She wasn't sure if she wanted to take the wallet, though. Wallets had credit cards. That could be deactivated. People had things. Those could just be taken and not tracked back to her or stopped, somehow--

"I was just looking for the boots, but I mean," Nembus glanced behind her.

Who else was out this late? Were there any pretty scarves?

-- What was she doing?!