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Wrapped up in the fact that Seal's Eye had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was there with her had somewhat dulled Chibimoon to the fact that there was a storm brewing around her. The topic had shifted at some point to the least favorite, perhaps most avoided subject in the presence of the candy-colored princess: the Dark Moon Court. There were really a whole basket full of reasons that Small Lady didn't wish to discuss what she thought were parallel parasites on their universe but it all really boiled down to the fact that Ares had loved Nehelenia. Nehelenia had once made it her purpose to steal Chibiusa's father from her mother, kidnap and enslave the dream priest whom Chibiusa loved, and then tried to throw her off a building to her death.

No, Chibimoon did not have very positive feelings for the Dark Moon Court.

Added to that was the fact that Chronos was leaving and had said..something? No the atmosphere was not really that friendly towards the Princess of the Equinox and her court for reasons that were unfathomable to her. It was, however, the same atmosphere that had the moon senshi keeping her head ducked and low during all of these meetings. These senshi did not want to follow any princess at random, they wanted to blaze the way. When you had all leaders and no followers nothing ever got done, but Chibimoon was not about to volunteer herself for the headache. No, not her.

Not ever again.

Allowing Juno to pull her away the pink-haired princess nodded slightly. "I do not like the talk anyway. I think it would make me very angry to listen; do you want to wait outside for now?"

Juno didn't know how much Chibimoon had heard, but she didn't seem as entirely upset as the amazonian had worried she might be. She was thankful for both that and the lack of resistance at moving along. Her hand loosened and left Chibi's porcelain skin, letting her full arm rest a little more affectionately around the shorter girl's shoulders instead.

Though her full memories of it all were lost to her mind it did not mean that Juno didn't remember bits and pieces. They were the kind of memories that cropped up most often in nightmares, perhaps tainted all the more by her dreaming mind. She knew what was important though.. That once upon a time her soul had been corrupted and possessed by Chaos and the Dark Moon Circus. And she knew she hated Nehelenia, Ares, hell.. even Zirconia, though she'd luckily not noticed or realized the cat girl was present. Even when the parallels had been 'on their side' Juno hadn't been able to push away that hatred. So yeah.. she really could care less about hearing about the DMC either. Especially if it was going to upset her friend in the process.

Really she didn't even care that much about the information on any of the topics. Things were pretty simple with Juno anyway. It smelled like Chaos? Pummel it into the ******** ground.

Lapsing into Japanese, the language that she knew made Allie most comfortable, she nodded, chattering on. "We can wait outside for awhile and come back later if you want. Or just get the hell out of here all together. I'm fine with whatever."

"I can show you my awesome handstand. I can hold myself up with just one hand now!"

Nodding and feeling a bit more comfortable with what was going on, Chibimoon waited until they were away from the main group to let her true emotions show. It was another one of those things that she had learned to do when in one of those large groups, when everyone was looking at you for answers or just something that was a crack in the facade of the perfectly perfect princess. It was a thing that she always strove for and though everyone around her swore it was unnecessary, Small Lady bearing the name Serenity would always be convinced she was falling short.

Her mother tongue ran out like a brook at that point, all but babbling. "I don't really understand why in the world nobody ever wants to work together, or listen! 'Their kind'! What, like we're not senshi, like we don't want to all work together and get the same things done just because we're royal? Do they not understand that senshi are just as good as royalty in some cases? Or are they jealous of the power? I just don't understand it Juno, I really really don't. I'm just glad they've stopped looking at me because it all hurts." The reaction the green-clad senshi had worried about, just on time delay! Distress was obvious in her tone of voice if anyone could hear the quietly-impassioned speech in a foreign language, but the content was thankfully knowable to very few.

For a long moment Coralie rested her head against Aitana's shoulder. It was a very strong shoulder to lean on which was why the petite princess relied on it so much sometimes. "We should hang out just in case something important happens. I'd feel bad if we left and I could have actually done something useful." And then, wistfully: "I wish I could go home." It didn't seem like a betrayal to say that to Aitana because back home, in her time and place, Juno was there.

Lapsing back into English because it seemed like the right thing to do, Chibimoon matched her shorter strides to Juno's longer ones with a bit of a smile. "We should work on a backflip. You promised you would teach me!"

Neso didn't react to Valhalla's change in expression. He was happy to do whatever Chronos needed, blindly. It was the way that he was built, and he saw no reason to change it when doing things for Chronos made him so happy. Even when she said his name to get him to step aside, Neso simply turned to her, smile returning brighter than before and said, "Sure thing, princess."

When Chronos said she had to go attend an audience, a dangerous one at that, Neso felt an uncomfortable spark of bile pinch in his gut. "I'm with you, princess. I can go with you?" He was trailing behind her, still firmly holding her hand. "Maybe Virgo could come, if we waited." Neso would not leave Chronos' side, period, but he also was by no means the greatest weapon in her arsenal. He was more like the adorable puppy who pretended to guard the arsenal but really just liked running around in circles pursuing his own tail.

Athene hadn’t had much experience with the Dark Mirror senshi – in fact what experience he’d had had amounted to exactly two run-ins. The first, the dark-haired senshi recognised from some of the names being called out, the name bringing to memory the tall blond that he’d spoken to while out on patrol back when he’d been suffering from the runny nose of doom.

“I’ve met a Super Sailor Remarque” It was his first vocal contribution to the meeting. “Although he didn’t seem that bad to me.” Hesitating as he tried to recall the details from his conversation with the blond Dark Mirror senshi, Athene added “He said that he didn’t care much for the Negaverse although he had some weird notions about what he called ‘our leaders’. I’ve also met a Sailor Virtus.”

Then it occurred to the dark-haired senshi, that the others probably didn’t have a clue who was speaking and added slightly awkwardly “Uh, I’m Sailor Athene by the way.

Unlike the topic before information was absolutely pouring in over the Dark Mirror Senshi. And Polaris for one was eating it up. Names were filed in her mind for later use, and after a moment she lifted her hand, adding a few names to mix too. "Sailor Requiem is another one. And.. I don't exactly recall the name of the other girl but I met one once with short red hair and freckles, and a black and brown dress."

The emotion and weight in Zirconia's words were obvious when she finally spoke and Polaris offered the cat girl a soft look of sympathy, whether or not she saw it. As the senshi had thought, her information was full and frightening. And as someone who knew the woman... or.. cat woman personally, she was inclined to believe every word.

If Zirconia needed her, or ever came to ask, Polaris would be there beside her to take down the dark Princess. Maybe that would even free those under her spell.

Standing there in her red cloak Albali felt suddenly like she needed to be gone, away from this place, to somewhere else entirely. There was a part of her that was incredibly proud and a little bit in awe of the way Zirconia stood up against the scrutiny of the entire room. Not only was the guardian not from this dimension (supposedly) but she was affiliated with the group that not even most of the senshi would claim alliance with simply because they were considered to be monsters. What she'd said, though, Albali could only find fault with.

Only would find fault with. Her infatuation with the host of the Princess of Smoke had put nothing but blinders in front of her eyes where Ares' actions were concerned. Had Albali wanted to torture those people for information? Not especially. The amount of blood and gore that had come from that span of time had caused even her to hesitate, caused her to back away just a little bit but never had her faith and loyalty wavered. Even to this day when everything was said and done Albali would have defended anything the Blood Moon Queen had decided to execute in the name of what she thought was right.

Couldn't it be that what Ares had told Zirconia was what she thought was right for them all? Ares didn't want this kingdom she wanted her own out in space. Out where there wasn't anyone to hurt, but perhaps the only way to do that was to make a deal with a power less tolerable than they would have liked. There had to be some kind of honorable, logical answer to everything that was being done that Zirconia either could not or would not see. Just because she had supposedly served Nehelenia and known Ares on the (supposed) other side of the mirror did not mean that she understood what the Fallon part of that senshi was thinking and doing.

There was only one Princess Ares to her and Sailor Albali was sworn to follow her into damnation, fire, and darkness no matter where the path led because Albali believed that Ares was doing what was right. Albali was weak, she had been left behind, but she was becoming stronger. Stronger so that one day she would be standing again at Ares' right hand so that she could understand what had happened and why. Though she respected Zirconia for standing in the face of adversity and speaking what she thought was right, she could not respect the words that came from her mouth due to the sheer betrayal contained within.

Turned on Zirconia? No. Zirconia had turned on her. It took everything inside the Senshi of Echoes not to cry out that the purple-furred cat was wrong, that Ares would never hurt someone simply to hurt them and that something else was going on, but no one would have listened. They would have only turned on Albali instead, reducing her position in their midst to someone to be suspicious of and so she held her silence. The time would come and then they would all see, see and regret that they had not joined sooner.