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 Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:16 pm
"Lina Knight, I guess her name is," clarified Tallulah, sipping her coffee. She was beginning to feel more wakeful, and therefore better equipped to sort this out. "I 'met' her ages ago, when she was a lieutenant with the negaverse. Blue hair, gray uniform, bouncy hammer - hence the nickname. I didn't know her real name for ages, turns out it was Linarite."
She shrugged. "Anyways," she explained, "She moved her way up the Negaverse totem pole and I saw her every few months at big battles. I don't know all the details, but she was involved with Sailor Castor even while she was still with the Negaverse."
They'd put Castor on 'corruption watch' for a while. It wasn't her finest hour - Castor, she knew by now, might be a lech but his heart was in the right place.
"So," continued Tallulah conversationally, setting her coffee down so she could better talk with her hands, "She's been un-corrupted and they're married now. But the knights you know... they start as Knights? They've never been corrupted?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:12 pm
Christa nearly stuttered at the information. "Whoa, whoa. Wait, what? She started as a lieutenant, was involved with a senshi to some degree, somehow didn't die because of this involvement, got purified and now she's a knight, married to this Castor person? Did I get all that correct?" She wanted to arrange the timeline properly in her head, because the most important thing out of this story was how a Negaverse officer somehow switched sides. Christa was fully aware that senshi could switch sides via corruption - how that actually played out was unknown to her, but according to Ares, Alkaid and Lyra were once allies of hers and now worked for the Negaverse. She hadn't seen any other corrupted people, but the process could apparently be reversed?
"Do we know how she became a knight?" The gray haired teen tilted her head in supreme confusion. Without knowing the mechanism behind corruption in the first place, she had no idea how to even begin wondering how the process could be done in reverse. "But to answer your question, yes. The knights I've run into, they all started as knights. They were never anything else to the best of my knowledge. Camelot specifically said he awakened one day when he tried to save a senshi. I would assume that if he were a Negaverse officer before that, there would be no reason to save a senshi. Unless he was lying, but I somehow doubt that."
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:27 pm
"I talked to the girl for all of two minutes," shrugged Tallulah regretfully. She'd have liked to be able to tell Christa more, but given the circumstances of their meeting all she had to go on was the scantest of information. However, it was heartening to know that, just as Senshi could be corrupted to the side of the negaverse, their agents could be redeemed - and knights seemed far more natural than corrupted senshi. All this did was confirm her suspicions that the Negaverse went against the natural order of things.
"I'm not really comfortable talking about this here," she added, lowering her voice, "But thank you for telling me about this." Even with the scantest of information about the knights, it had already reassured her faith in the senshi and their mission. The negaverse was wrong - the fact that they had a purified form only seemed to confirm what she had suspected all along.
"I'll ask Castor more about it?" Tallulah suggested helpfully. She was on good enough terms with him, she thought, and he knew she was all about information. It didn't make sense that he might withhold the information from her - knowing more about the purification process might make it possible to show more fallen soldiers the light.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:41 pm
Once Talullah suggested toning down the conversation, her companion nodded in agreement. She was too caught up in gathering information to realize they were in a very public place and there could be someone watching them. Christa lowered her voice. "I agree. Sorry. But if you could get some information from this Castor, it'd be very useful. If we can figure out how this purification was pulled off, then it could spell some serious consequences for the Negaverse." She ended things on that note and took a sip of her coffee.
"Anyway," she said again after a few moments of listening to the people around them, "I'll tell my father tonight that you agreed to come and to prepare something vegetarian for you. He won't mind in the slightest, but you've really saved my rear. I can't ever repay you for that, Talullah." Christa bowed her head in thanks to the older girl and thanked her lucky stars (or moon!) that she could even find Europa in the first place. Something kept telling her that things were starting to look up no matter how suspicious Christa may have been.
She tapped on her glass for a bit. "I hope you don't mind siblings. I have a younger brother in middle school. He's kind of a pain but mostly harmless. Don't be surprised if you get filled full of questions just stepping inside." She gave a slight chuckle and wondered if she should lay down some ground rules with Zach first.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:04 pm
"I wish I had siblings," sighed Tallulah. She was the only child of parents who had already been pushing forty when they had her, and had always felt a twinge of regret over growing up a singleton. Obnoxious or not, Christa's mention of a little brother elicited a murmur of "Jealous!" from the older girl. She took another long slurp of her coffee.
"Well," Tallulah pronounced carefully, rattling the ice. "Since I'm not sleeping anytime soon."
Maybe copious amounts of caffeine had not been the best idea this time of night. She felt like she could go for another two hours of patrol, but it wasn't real energy - just the coffee talking. As soon as she henshined up she would feel exhausted again, but if she went home now she would just lie awake.
"Just help me get the team together and we'll be even," she decided, waving the previous comment away. "I'll see you at dinner!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:56 am
"Thank you again, for everything." Christa breathed, feeling herself getting rather sleepy. She was very thankful then that she ordered the decaff. Sleeping was so important these days and she didn't want to be caught in a bind while being braindead. "I'll call you ahead of time to let you know the address. Makes things easy."
Standing up from the table, the gray haired teen watched as her older counterpart left the coffeehouse and disappeared into the night. One day, I'll be as powerful as Europa. We'll get the Court together and see what happens. She resigned herself to a week or so of extensive research both through books and through fellow senshi. Someone had to have seen something, and Christa was thoroughly convinced more Jovians were out there, just waiting.
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