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"They should get a bigger warehouse next time." Themis said to his companion, head-shaking. He did not notice Gunn until she perched on top of a box, and only saw the barest flicker of Virgo's veil - othewise, the senshi of innocence was completely lost into the crowd.

Really, this was a little ridiculous, and yet more senshi were entering - which made the mass outstetch toward them.

"Can you see anyone ?" He squinted behind his glasses, his hand reaching out for hers in pure reflex - he couldn't see Europa, Regulus, Maia, Pomona, or Polaris at all.

When the call had come, Genevieve Prideux had been sprawled out on her stomach on top of the lacy, ruffly pile of pink and white that was her bed. Her nose had been all but pressed to the pages Gone with the Wind; a broken spine and dog-eared pages suggested that it was one of her favorites.

“Oh Rhett,” she sighed dreamily, “You're so much older than me but frankly, my dear, I don't give a- oh!” Jenny all but jumped off of the bed as the small pink phone buzzed upon the dresser. It jumped and hopped with the vibration, tumbling off and onto the beige shag carpeting. Jenny all but rolled off of the bed, scrambling on all fours to snatch the thing up and smoosh her face against it. It took only a moment after reading the message for her heart to jump into her throat.

This was official senshi business!

Jenny stuffed the phone into a pocket, yanking open the bottom drawer. The undergarments within had enough weekdays and cartoon characters to make a Hello Kitty Calendar that stretched on into the year 3000, and they were quickly tossed around the room as she searched for her henshin pen. It was there, of course, the symbol atop it tangled in the lacy trappings of the one pair of 'adult' underwear she owned, a joke gift from Charys from long ago. With her face screwed up in an expression that said 'ew', she untangle the black lace from her henshin pen and kicked the drawer shut on her way out.




By the time she arrived at the warehouse, Sailor Calypso was already certain that she would not like it. It wasn't that she didn't like touching people – she did! She hugged Bo on every possible occasion, and she even once touched Dr. Westerman's arm! Of course, it had been by accident, but it still counted! However, this wasn't a hug or an “accidental” bumping of arms. This was being packed in, shoulder to shoulder, the top of her head barely reaching the shoulders of most of the people around her. Jenny wove her way through, her trail marked by excuse me's and sorry's as though they would somehow help her find her way back.

It didn't take long for her to run face-first into the ribcage of her best friend, and Jenny turned her wide blue eyes up to the boy she still was not used to calling Sailor Neso. She didn't even need to say a word, because Bo had never needed words to know when Jenny was terrified. Her lower lip was pulled in between her teeth, her blue eyes wide, and that was all he needed. Sailor Neso grinned and gave a fake roll of his eyes before he dropped momentarily to a knee.

“Come on,” he said, his blonde head vanishing into the crowd.

When he emerged, he was double the height, with a significantly more please Sailor Calypso riding on his shoulders. She wrapped her arms around his head and, seeing nobody who appeared to be in charge, occupied herself with making tiny braids in his hair.

"Hello Iris."

Turning towards the familiar voice, the blonde spikey haired girl saw a familiar face. "Yo!" she said with a nod of her head as she began to glance about the area.

"Hey, Metis... ya hear or see th'cat?" Obviously she was referencing ********* golden eyes glanced around again, searching for the cat, and instead found something else.

God damn it, not Hugbell again!!

Apparently Iris was on babysitting duty now too.

The hand was accepted happily, greedily, proudly. Bellatrix shook her head in the negative, "No. I don't see any of the team yet, but I agree - there has to be better places to hold these meetings..."

Bellatrix had expected Europa to be one of the first here - information monger that she was, after all. If she ended up being a no-show, Bell decided she would try her best to remember and relay all the information to her - a self-imposed task that she felt duty-bound to do.

Giving Jenny a ride on his shoulders was not new territory for Neso. She had been one of the first people he had told about his senshidom. And why not? They were camp buddies from way back. The bonds made with marshmallows over campfires were sacred, okay.

The Senshi of Summer did not seem to understand why everyone else was so tense. He came to the meeting because he expected it to be some kind of party. Why else would so many other people go? With Jenny on his shoulders, Neso hopped and swerved, treating her more like a seven year old than a teenager. Maybe if he kept playing around like this, she wouldn't be so scared.

"Don't be scared, Jen-Jen," he said. "You are now the tallest person in the room. All others will bow before you."

Across the room, he spotted Virgo and shouted, "HI, VIRGO!" And then he waved emphatically.

***

Neither Ares nor Fallon had any clue what LARPing was. She simply fixed Castor with a quizzical, annoyed stare, and then turned back to Albali. "I don't like this," she said lowly. Another voice caught her ear, but Ares assumed no one was talking about her. There was nothing wrong with wearing a cape.

Hell, back on the parallel moon, they were all ABOUT capes. Sort of.

Her name! That was Neso, wasn't it? She smiled a bit, and waved back. At least he'd found someone in case things got bad--she didn't know the mulberry-haired girl but she didn't necessarily have to. Two people could protect each other's backs; it'd been a common enough Zodiac tactic.

In such a crowded space, though, there was no way for Virgo to protect everyone. As much as she would like to... It was a bit of a dilemma of what she should do if this wasn't called by a senshi. No one within the Zodiac knew--

It was the man from the fight, who hadn't known who the Zodiacs were. Virgo narrowed her eyes a bit--on her side, okay, but the Zodiacs hadn't been among the most feared warriors in the galaxy for taking people at their word. And honestly, her ego as team captain still smarted a little from someone not knowing.

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Gunn stood up to get a better look at this Kurma. He didn't look like a senshi, didn't act like one, and she wasn't sure how to handle that. She pulled a face, looked over to Ares for guidance. Stay or go, she wanted to know. He could get a message to all of them... did that mean they should trust him?

The female half of Gemini peeked a little curiously into the warehouse where the other senshi had begun to gather, the slightest of interested smiles curling the corners of her lips as she lifted her eyebrows, eying the occupants with interest. She had not yet stepped inside just yet, standing just beyond the threshold and bending over just slightly so just her head was visible past the door, although the thick red hair hanging loosely about her shoulders was less than ideal for being sneaky. Still, she didn't seem perturbed when a few senshi looked her way, lifting a hand to wave cheekily as they gave her a weird look -- if she was trying to be sneaky, she certainly didn't look like she was trying very hard. And she wasn't -- there were times when a game of secret-agent could be fun, but at the moment she was merely curious. She expected most senshi would be here, but she was quite interested to see who would be early and who would be late. It was almost like a game.

She liked games.

Straightening after a good few moments, Gemini Beta folded her arms loosely behind her back as she stepped into the chilled room, seemingly unbothered by the frigid temperature.

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Pegasus was, as usual, conspicuously absent.