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There had been a near miss as the captain they'd been fighting had taken a swing as Phoebe, and we're it not for Altias intercepting the senshi of euphoria would have been walking away from that encounter with a black eye or a fat lip. I stead she was startled by the sound of a fist smacking into a protective palm, and half a second laterthe eternal had scooped her up and was running away.

"Altias, what are you doing? You could have beaten them," she was insisting as she tried to cling to one of his arms to keep from falling.

Then he was setting her down, his hands cupping her cheeks, and Phoebe was blinking up at him with wide, sunset colored eyes. "Wrong?"

Maybe if he hadn't seen for himself just how poorly she was doing she could have denied it, but he had, and she just didn't have that much fight left. "Um..." But where to start?

The heat of tears starting to burn at the corners of her eyes made her feel stupid, but that only made the burning worse, and a hot tear rolled down her cheek before he was scooping her up bridal style to set her down on a bench so they could talk.

She scrubbed at her eyes as she adjusted herself on the bench, legs tight together and hands tucking into her lap with shoulders rounding. "I dunno if Debe told you guys or not, but...not that long ago, a couple of weeks now, maybe, she had to rush out to come get me.

"I wasn't hurt, I'd just seen, " she paused, expression looking a little haunted. "This corrupt senshi had taken a starseed and I was trying to get it back. I actually got my hands on it, but she pinned me against the wall and..."