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For a while Athene looked down at the take-out cup as he listened to Remarque speak. He still had problems equating the taller senshi to those of his court who he’d witnessed attaching the Knights. Remarque hadn’t been amongst those doing the killing and their conversation had done nothing to dissuade the dark-haired senshi from his original opionion that the other was okay. However neither could he forget the events of that night.

When he spoke at last his quiet voice was matter-of-fact “Actually some of your members do kill” he added. “I was there at that meeting of ours that some of the members of your Court and the Negaverse gatecrashed.” It was hard to forget the sudden choking smoke, or the bright flash of light temporarily killing his vision. He worried his lower lip slightly “Granted your side wasn’t the only ones killing Knights” that Negaverse General that had caused him to need stitched and her paperclips-wielding Lieutenant sidekick had also targeted the Pages “But it doesn’t make those from your side who killed those Knights any better.”

He looked down at the take-out cup again before adding “What makes it worse is that before you crashed in, we’d all only just managed to come to an agreement that some of us should try approaching the Dark Mirror and Negaverse to see if we could find some sort of common ground, but I don’t see it going ahead anymore.”

He sighed “You know if it was a simple matter of everyone allying on the same side then there’s no reason why you couldn’t join the White Moon. I know at least one person has.” Granted the Knight in question had been part of the Negaverse, but there was no reason that it wouldn’t work for the Dark Mirror Court. Although Athene privately thought it unlikely that Remarque would want to go down that route – the taller blond hadn’t exactly expressed a positive view of the White Moon.

For a moment a surprised look flickered across Athene’s face – purification wasn’t something that the dark-haired senshi had thought that Remarque would honestly be interested in given the way that the other had made his opinion on the white moon in general clear.

“To be truthful I don’t have many answers” Athene admitted at last. “From what I gather it’s not something that all senshi can do – it seems to be something really that only one of the Princesses could do.” He took a sip of his by now very lukewarm and bordering on cold drink “You’d still be you though.” He thought about it, decided against using the word brainwashing and settled on “You without being part of chaos.”

Athene frowned slightly “That makes it sound like all of us come into this automatically thinking chaos bad, order good” he said at last. “Not all of us do” he certainly hadn’t.

“I know the White Moon isn’t perfect” he hesitated before admitting. “Unlike the Negaverse and your Court we’re not even really united.” It didn’t seem to be any secret how disorganised the senshi of the White Moon were. “But I’ve yet to see a White Moon senshi try and steal someone’s energy or worse their soul crystal.”

He hesitated for a few moments more before speaking again “And I guess uprisings are kind of chaotic,” he sighed quietly before adding “But then again people don’t really tend to revolt tidily.” Or least based on some of the stuff that he’d had to study in history classes at school they hadn’t seemed to.

“Not liking violence isn’t the same as being weak though” Athene pointed out quietly. “And it doesn’t mean that people who don’t like violence won’t ever fight.”

He considered Remarque’s question in silence for a few moments, but when he spoke his quiet voice was decisive “No I wouldn’t, no more than I’d kill someone – not even if it meant ending all of this” although he gestured around the park, Athene was actually referring to the whole war thing. It’s like a line – and that’s one of my ones.”

For a moment the dark-haired senshi hesitated before admitting “Maybe it would be different if people actually volunteered to give up some their energy” after all he couldn’t exactly argue against if it was something someone had made a free choice about “But it’s not like the people who have energy taken from them are exactly given any say in it.”

“Perhaps” Athene agreed. “But even if it’s a lesser wrong, taking energy from the civilians without their consent doesn’t make it any more right.”

He stared at the take-out cup again “I’m probably not the person to talk about reasons, probably because I’m not in this because of any fancy or grand reason” he told Remarque as much during their first meeting. “I’m not in this because of some long dead queen” he sounded pretty sure about the words. “I’m just doing my best to try and protect people with what abilities I have, as part of the White Moon.”

“Different methods” Athene said quietly. Not that the dark-haired senshi was saying that he agreed to those methods, but Remarque was a good speaker and he sounded passionate about what he was talking about – Athene’s words were a simple acknowledgement of that.

He took a slight sip of his hot chocolate and wrinkled his nose slightly – it had gone cold “Anyway I’ve best go back to the patrol beat” he said quietly at last. The cold chocolate suggested that he’d dallied longer than he’d intended. “Have a pleasant evening Remarque.” Turning to walk away, he paused and half turned back for a moment “And by the way I still think that you're okay.”

Maybe he shouldn't – after all the other was part of a Court which had members who had done horrible things. However despite the awful events that gone down at the senshi and knight meeting, Remarque was not his court and the dark-haired senshi's latest encounter with the blond had not done anything to shift the opinion he’d formed of the other senshi from his first encounter.