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There was a slight bob oh the bluenette's head as she acknowledged the remark about the cafe; she was certainly willing to try it, since there really weren't that many places open this late at night.

It never got old, the ability to jump from such dizzying heights and not take any damage. As long as you did it properly, and Selenite had no desire to twist her ankle for such a silly reason. As soon as she'd landed lightly on the ground, the bluenette powered down, revealing that the beads were part of the uniform; Elena's hair was flipped into a ponytail that probably took more work than it appeared. "I'm Elena, by the way," she introduced her civilian self. "Selenite too," she continued by way of a belated introduction of the Negaverse officer she had just been.

A corner of Elena's mind probably would have agreed with Ashley's thought about how odd this whole magic thing was; every time Selenite came out to play, her hair was neatly braided and adorned with those blue ornaments that seemed to so fascinate the other girl. Not to mention the clothing changes!

"Nice to meet you," she replied with a courteous incline of her head. She was obviously not big on the whole 'touching other people' thing, since she didn't offer her hand or make any other sort of gesture along those lines. "Shall we?" she continued, smiling a bit and nodding a head further down the street as she twitched the hem of her skirt straight.

There was a bit of impatient foot-tapping, but that was more an indicator of her overall impatience with life, and less to do with Ashley directly. She recognized the fact that streets often appeared to be more nonsensical when you were actually walking on them, instead of viewing them from above.

That was certainly one thing she'd never trade. The views from the city's rooftops were occasionally breathtaking.

"Um," she said, following the other lieutenant. "Since just before that coma thing, if you were around for that." There were a lot of people moving into and out of the area, so it was entirely possible Ashley had missed the whole thing.

Lucky her.

Elena nodded. "I was...fortunate," she commented. "I woke up." And that was all she was likely to say on the matter.

"You seem to have picked it all up pretty quickly," she complimented. "Not everyone does." Indeed, Fluorite was a definite credit to whomever had recruited her. Lucky Scheelite, to have such a capable officer reporting to him.

Once inside the cafe, Elena looked around and nodded once. This was a pretty decent cafe, based on the appearance alone. Small, but big enough to offer a bit of privacy to anyone sitting at a table.

"I'm sure you'll do fine," she commented, sitting down at a table.

Elena ordered herself a raspberry cappuccino when the waiter asked; she normally didn't drink a lot of coffee, but she'd need it later. "People are very good at ignoring things going on around them," she replied while idly nibbling on her lower lip.

"They see something that doesn't fit within their expectations for the world, and so they dismiss it." She leaned back in her chair, eyes narrowed with distaste for the willful blindness so much of humanity seemed content with. "As if ignoring something made it go away."

"Exactly," she replied with a firm nod of her head. It was so refreshing to talk to someone who understood this sort of thing. Civilians tended not to, and not every Negaverse officer did either.

The waiter delivered their drinks then, and Elena took an appreciative sip of hers before continuing. "Which is what makes us - all of us - so important."