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Nembus wasn't sure what that feeling was.

She had run into plenty enough of chaotic auras and order auras by now to pick them out -- or, at least, she thought she had, but something felt different about the aura she felt at the edge of her consciousness. It wasn't anything that felt like it would be unfriendly like the way Order auras, especially at their strongest, could occasionally make her feel sick, but it didn't feel like anything she was familiar with, either.

She filed this under new experiences and pushed on toward it.

What she saw was unexpected - a dark-clad senshi, like her, but without the long hair. She could tell they weren't corrupt like her, but she wasn't exactly certain what they were except --

A Dark Mirror Senshi.

She had read of them in the databases. Potential allies or enemies, dependent. They were supposed to keep an eye on them.

"Ah, hi?" but Nembus wasn't terribly inclined to fight. From a distance, she asked, curiously, "What's that? Doesn't feel like a youma."

She was referring to the mirror wraith.

Interesting. So they didn't have the innate ability to gather energy in the way the Negaverse can. Could also, in theory, be interrupted and destroyed.

She supposed that was an advantage in that they didn't necessarily need to reveal themselves for the energy-draining, just send their wraith out. A disadvantage in that it was probably easier to take away considering it didn't seem like he could just shove the mirror wraith into a subspace pocket. "Suppose that's a blessing and a curse," offered Nembus, crossing her arms under her chest. To be honest, she wasn't sure which method she would have preferred.

Maybe neither.

"Ah, yeah, not particularly interested in fighting." Mostly just figuring out who and what she was looking at. "It's nice to meet you, Bellerophon. My name is Nembus, Super of Electromagnetism."

The Dark Mirror were supposed to be those they kept an eye on, but it didn't outright say they were enemies. She saw no issue with sharing that information.

Of course, she also saw no issue with sharing that information with Order. Perhaps her priorities were askew.

Was hard to be truly neutral when Chaos was what influenced their existence.

She understood, at the very least, that their priorities were different than the priorities of the Negaverse. They seemed to have different focuses than those of the Negaverse -- the Negaverse seemed more focused on ridding the Earth of the invaders that were the White Moon. She didn't get the impression that was the focus of Dark Mirror.

She wasn't sure she could see 'chimera' when she looked at him, but to be honest, she wasn't sure if a chimera had a standard look-- "Fair enough. I assume you're at first level, then?" That would have backed up with the aura she felt, as unusual and to the left as it seemed.

Ah.

The cracks.

Nembus looked down at the crack in her chest, reaching in toward it for a moment and wincing as she felt her own starseed. She withdrew her hand without the starseed, unwilling to actually take it out and look at it. She didn't know if she could trust the Dark Mirror. She knew that starseed shouldn't have been accessible. "Yeah. We can take out our own starseeds." She put her hand back at her side, shaking it out. "I've heard Order Senshi can go to space -- we can't, but we do have the Negaverse."

She paused, tilting her head. "And what makes you different than the White Moon?"

Nembus did catch the momentary look of disgust and couldn't help the small blip of a frown. He was probably right to be disgusted by it. They shouldn't have been able to access their starseed. Spoke of the wrongness of what she was, the rightness of Metallia, the --

Nembus' eyes widened at the realization of her thoughts.

She buried it down.

"Yeah, it does," she rubbed her shoulder with her opposite hand, listening to his explanation. Their powers were sourced from Chaos, but they could wall through mirrors. She supposed that explained the name dark mirror, implied that their chaotic power source had something to do with mirrors. The different way of doing it caught her curiosity, but she made the connection to the mirror wraiths he had mentioned earlier and nodded. "No, I don't think any of the White Moon can walk through mirrors," she noted, with a snicker. "At least, not any I have met."

She paused, tapping her foot in thought. "So you say you can walk through mirrors - do you have any other abilities related to mirrors?"

So almost the same as the White Moon except for being able to travel through mirrors and incorruptible by the Negaverse. Interesting. He didn't say they couldn't be purified, so he could still go back to being White Moon if he wanted. Or... go to White Moon. She supposed he hadn't been forced into this the way she had.

"I think so. You said your magic was chimeras, right? Mine is electromagnetism. Deals with superheating and electricity and blinding people, from what I've been able to see in my uses of it." She rubbed her shoulder. "So the content is different, but I imagine everything else is the same."

Interesting. More in common than different.

Perhaps that was why she needed to keep an eye on them.

Territory? Did she really have a territory? Nembus mostly lurked around on roofs, withdrawing to fulfill a quota and very little beyond that. She even tended to avoid starseeds these days -- it was something she had done long in the past, but now the concept of starseeds made her heart jump into her throat, never mind the fact that it wasn't fully necessary.

"I don't mind if someone else stays here," she replied, rubbing her neck. "It's not like there are so few people in this region we both can't get our quotas, right?"

Destiny City was a big city.

"So if you want to finish up your energy gathering here, by all means."