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Ume ordered a hot chocolate of her own with a friendly smile at the waitress and a wider one at Beth when she came in.
Though for one reason or another, while she did smile at the little cat, and gave a small laugh about the Astaria comments she looked more distracted again for a long moment, tracing patterns on the table with her finger tip.

"Oh! Um... I'm ah..." she paused blushing slightly. "Blood, past that I'm, really pretty bad at this apparently."

Rea was offering her coffee fully to Charys now, so Charys did what she would have done in any case; kept on drinking it. She also kept on referring to it by different names when she passed it back, such as "Here, have your drank back," but hey, whatever amused the blue-eyed bluenette. Astraea was nowhere to be seen. Astraea and Chloe, though nobody else knew, were distinctly on the "pissed-off outs."

"I've tried to convince her she should be drinking people's blood," she said, "but would you believe she's the only goth in eternity who seems squicked by that? Seriously, I'm so disappointed. No, just bullshitting, I'd be freaked if you started doing that weird Cullen stuff. -- I'm whirlpools."

It sounded fairly respectable. Except then Charys added vaguely, "Like a spa setting."

Then she stole more of Rea's coffee, this time labelling it "piss potion."

"She can make you dream anything, especially if it's sexy," interrupted Charys, yet again drinking Rea's coffee. "That's pretty much how she works. Sexy dreams. All the time. Am I right, Eve-O."

Knowing Charys -- which Ume did -- this pretty much sounded like Charys being Charys, especially as when Rea pursed her mouth she looked a little bit like a disapproving bunny and not the type of person who fought wielding solely 'sexy dreams'. But then again it was also pretty cold and Charys looked as though she was running solely on caffeine.

Oddly even with the stand off attitude, the new comers power made Ume feel a bit better about her own, even if her 'attacks' did, she rather thought, suck.

"Blood!" She announced with the perkiness of a well fed vampire, sans sparkles. "Wow though, decay sounds kind of amazing!" She did in fact sound impressed, then again Charys at least would have seen a few books on crime scene corpses in Ume's possession.

Aww, Eve was being all faintly vanilla perverted. That was cute. Like watching a baby bird try to fly.

"Hey!" said Charys with unusual brightness. Maybe it was time to cut off the line on her coffee intake. She flipped her pale blue bangs over to the other side of her face, toasting Delphine with Rea's coffee before she set it down again. "Epic. Just what we needed, someone else who's into cuddles and hug time."

Slurp. "Just kidding, you totally sound like a douche."

She cracked her knuckles, gave the girl a Buddy Jesus thumbs-up, and then returned to knocking back the last of Rea's coffee. "Okay, we're all here, we're all queer, can we get on with this," she said. "I don't know if my TiVo got set up to record Blair Witch Project, it's been like ten years since I saw that movie and I want to see if the shakycam makes me hurl as much as it did back when I saw it in the theater."

The bluenette added candidly, "I hurled everywhere, I'm not gonna lie. They didn't let me back in that movie theater for like three years, took them that long to get the barf out."

Ume had to admit she jumped a little to hear Chloe, but she was glad to see her again. Much friendlier than Astaria she thought.
She glanced around at the others... "I'm afraid I said something kinda like that to Astaria too... well, and a few other things." She blushed and reached to poke Charys.

"I like the idea... all of us? together? We could play on each others strengths and weaknesses, some of us like me, we're still new, or I've never learned to fight...I could use teachers as well a team mates. If we do this, maybe more people will follow our leads?"
She beamed around to see whom else liked it.

Ume paused and glanced at 'Dream', a worried glance at how -quiet- she'd been and stayed.

"Are you ok? " She asked, the girls face had gone from unreadable to blanker than a blizzard in the arctic.

"I didn't mean to push that, if I did... I think we could all due to hear what each other thinks about it?"

Rea couldn't even raise an eyebrow at Eve's statement. It was completely true -- they both knew that even if she was against it, her blonde roommate could easily persuade her. She always did. No matter what it was, if Eve wanted her to go somewhere or do something, Rea went without complaint. In this case, Rea didn't need much convincing. As soon as Eve had cast her vote, Rea had essentially cast hers, although not as vocally.

Glancing at Charys, she eyed her curiously for a moment, wondering what the bluenette would have to say about Eve's statement. She doubted it was like that, although with Charys, she could never really tell. She would have never pegged her as someone to even consider going out with someone like her, (unfunny and reserved as she was,) and then she had asked her to prom. That was... if they survived until then. The thought flustered her a little in more ways than one, and she took back the empty cup, if only to have something to hold onto.

If Charys' words from their 'date' at the carnival didnt sober her a little, Eve's certainly did. Once again she felt the overwhelming feeling of guilt wash over her as her friend described how she was beaten up, squeezing the styrofoam cup a little too tightly.

"No, I think that it's a good idea for senshi to gather in groups," she murmured, not looking up from where her eyes had focused themselves on the cup, "The negaverse does not play by the rules, and does not believe in fairness."

Was forming a group fair? If they met one negaverse lieutenant on the street, would they hesitate in beating them up? Sometimes, it felt impossible to tell the difference between 'them' and 'us.'

"I'm in."