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Worry? Yeah that’s an understatement. Thanks to him she had resorted to asking Dr. Jacobs to teach her something more than basic first aid should she encounter someone who had wounds her magic could not fully heal. Biting down on her lower lip Hannah shrugged her shoulders, turned on her heel and walked back over into the kitchen. Talk about a non too discreet way of saying i don’t want to talk about it or not now.

Not wanting the food to burn, Hannah hovered her hand above the pan to make sure it was warm as she peered into the pot to check on the soup. Spoon...spoon...ah Reaching over, she moved the bread bag to the side and grabbed the wooden spoon to stir the noodles so they didn’t burn. Once done she tapped the utensil on the side of the pot then rested it across the top before turning her attention back to the sandwiches.

Having opened the bag of cheese slices and separated six pieces (two per sandwich) from the square pieces of paper, Hannah then went about folding three of them into half pieces One full piece of bread, butter side down - check… one full size piece of cheese and two small ones - check…. annnnd one more piece of bread - check All that’s left at this point was to wait for that side to become a nice golden brown and flip it then wala lunch is served.

As she waited for side number two to finish she opened some of the top cabinets looking for plates and bowls of which she found and from there set them on the counter and poured the soup into each bowl. With the spatula Hannah lifted the corner of the first sandwich to take a peek before deeming it done and lifted it out of the pan to set on the first plate. Not wanting to dirty more silverware than necessary she used the top of the spatula to cut the sandwich diagonally.

Pleased that it looked as if it came out right the periwinkle haired girl picked up the first set of food and walked them into the room, setting them down in an empty spot on the table in front of Quenton “Lunch is served.” She smiled before adding ”Can I bring you anything to drink while I finish making Delilah’s?”

Delilah’s attention followed Hannah back into the kitchen. Her tone and the sudden turn caused the girl to raise an eyebrow at her friend. It was clean the topic would be dropped but her mind was adding a ‘for now’ as she heard to sizzle of the bread and butter in the pan. The smell of it was making her mouth water. It had been far too long since one of Hannah’s grilled cheeses.

Oh how she missed the simple things. But her mind quickly came out of it as she listened more to Quenton. ”So what you are saying is unless the corrupt keep their senshi phones, only we have access to them? Interesting. I wonder how that was found out.” Her voice was hesitant but she left it more as a statement than a question. When she heard the senshi of wasps mentioned, Delilah’s eyes rolled. ”Oh I don’t think you will get much out of him. Though he might act like an idiot, he blindly follows the chaos side. Something tells me he would even go as far as to die for it.” She knew that senshi and really did not care for him. Buzzing animals annoyed her.

”But you said something there. Pearl charms?” Her head cocked to the side and she listed for an answer. But there was a second question she had as she glanced back to Hannah in the kitchen. ”Quention, would mind doing me a favor and explaining a bit more about star seeds? I mentioned them to her but I think I was rather vague.”

It was, without a doubt, odd to have anyone encouraging a lecture of any sort and on any subject. Usually if he was talking, others were bored. That it was on a matter concerning their shared double lives was all the more odd- he was less so many others he’d met. He wasn’t an eternal senshi, he’d only just passed his year anniversary of it in the hospital. But was that not the point of so much that he held in ideal? To share information, even what little he’d gathered himself. If it could help Hannah and Delilah, than it was well worth divulging.

“You are each familiar with ‘awakening’, in which a guardian cat- a Mauvian, used their abilities to affect the starseed in you. Every human, so far as I know, has a starseed. I don’t know what determines what starseeds are regular human, which are connected to celestial bodies, or which are attached to …places, in the case of Knights. It is through your starseed that you are connected to the power of the place whose name you bear. It is...also something like a soul. When a Negaverse agent tears the starseed out of a person, their body goes inert into coma- a puppet with strings cut. If it was violent, sometimes death is immediate. Other times, death takes longer. The usual course of a coma and the effects of life-support.”

“ Negaverse agents can pump chaos into your starseed, I believe. I had a captain threaten me with this. It might be part of the process that corrupts senshi into the Negaverse. If this relates at all to the baptism-through-mirror conversion of the Dark Mirror Court into Chaos, I don’t know either. “ He paused to finish more sandwich, deliberately taking only politely-sized bites despite the burning desire to inhale the thing. He had to take time, or it wouldn’t stay down. “As for the pearl charms, if you read the primer as it is currently it mentions that the Moon is a safe haven that can be traveled to when the Moon is full. It neglects to mention the charms. They look like a pearl on a phone strap, and during the day preceding, the day of, and the day after the full moon they get a faint glow. By asking a Mauvian, you should be both able to get one, if Ash’s information was correct. She has a few on her person, and indicated there were more at the cat HQ. ...which apparently is a thing. I didn’t know they kept a headquarters, nor do I know where it is. But Pippin or Sheena might be able to help you. If not, I can message Ash and arrange a time you might meet her. “

Hannah shook her head slightly when offered the other half of Delilah’s sandwich, what she had in front of her would be good enough till later this evening anyway. Dunking her breaded butter into the soup, she took a bite and continued to listen with increasing interest and curiosity.

One part she did hope to possibly visit was more discussion on this Dark Mirror Court. Baptism through mirror?”Hmm” I fell through a mirror and I’m okay… she thought looking over at Delilah out of the corner of her eyes. Ah, one more thing to add to the list of things she’s ‘forgotten’ to mention. Mirror space fun place… pretty, yet terrifying.

“Don’t worry I’ll ask later” she then waved her hand for him to please continue as she took another bite of bread. Sure she had other questions she hoped to ask, many many questions at that; however there was no sense in bombarding Quention with more inquiries on top of what her friend had just asked. If their conversation happened to reach a lull or move towards something she wanted further explanation on she’d ask; but for now she was contempt to just listen and take mental notes.

It was now Delilah’s turn to fall silent as she listened. There was only one question going through her mind now and that was the simple ‘why’. However, the simplest questions sometimes had the most difficult answers. She knew this was going to be one of those times where the question would be on deaf ears because not one of them had ever served Chaos. They were each born to Order and remained there to this day. Others though appeared to switch. And while it seemed they were forced, Delilah had to wonder.

As she pondered, the elegance in her upbringing showed even as she nibbled on the corner of her bread. She was staring at the window in a way that seemed to have captivated her. So much left to wonder. But where to start?

”Hannah, jump in anytime.” Red eyes jerked over towards the girl with a soft smile before gazing at the papers for a blank piece.

There was no way of knowing for certain, without directly putting her on the spot, what was entailed in ‘meeting a few’ Dark Mirror senshi. It was too blaise and vanilla a phrasing to mean that in all, or even a majority, the cases had been violent or bad. Hannah was showing more and more to be a suspected risk of information leak or corruption threat- willing or unwilling.

Yet what is there to ultimately come of it, if information were wholly withheld and the distrust deserved acted fully upon? Shutting a door on someone is a sure way to drive them to enemy arms. Loose lips on one side are equally so for another. We give our enemies the swords to slit our own throats, and so often in the name of ‘purifying’ them no doubt. “In all honesty, I would judge it better for you to not get a hold of them ever again. But you are each master of yourself. A captain put his hand in my chest, threatening to feed chaos into my starseed...that it would change me into something. They can do that much willing or no. As a battlefield threat, maybe it was a bluff, but it isn’t something worth testing the limits of. No matter how nice they appear to be, or ‘really are’, the Negaverse and Dark Mirror are both twisted and dark. They both steal and murder, counting others as sacrifices and harvest like cattle. If the very feel of them isn’t enough to forewarn, than plain logic should.”

“Do anything? No. All we really did was talk.” Which was true, the only injuries she had sustained was when she had been fleeing from Benitoite and she fell down. Did quite a number on herself but that was more so her fault than anything.

Hannah worried her bottom lip as she looked between the two sitting beside her. “I have… however” she paused and pursed her lips “kind of fallen through a mirror on accident. I wasn’t exactly expecting someone to pop out of one and may have tried to push him back in… The glass didn’t break, and I’m still very much myself. So I don’t know what you meant earlier by baptism by mirror, because nothing happened. If anything, it was like falling through an open door into a large empty room.” What did Remarque call that place again… Mirror space, the place between mirrors.