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Europa bit her lip. Nightmare Shards didn't ring any bells for her, but she could certainly speak to bad dreams. She'd had some herself - all about working in some kind of post-apocalyptic field hospital. Babylon had more theories about them than she did, but she'd spoken to him enough to have the basics down. "They started... a little under a year ago, I think," she said. "October or so."

She'd had plenty of bad dreams over the years - the weeks leading to the first coma wave stuck out particularly in her mind. But those bad dreams had been, well, dreamlike. They'd had skewed logic. Events had been incomplete. People hadn't behaved like themselves. These latest dreams were more coherent. They held together, followed a logical sequence.

The other dreams always seemed like they resolved themselves into something, some kind of real-world event - but it had never taken this long before. "They're a future," she said, enunciating the article carefully. "Not the future, because stuff that contradicts them has already happened, but they're... something. Some kind of wire got crossed somewhere and we all got visions of something that won't ever happen, but could have."

"My instinct is to think of Chibimoon," she confessed. "Not that I think she's involved, but - she was from another timeline. A place that could have existed and didn't, and I think that's what the dreams are. We're dreaming of some kind of doomsday scenario that isn't going to happen anymore, but maybe... maybe it did happen? Somewhere."

And something like it could happen, if we're not careful, she thought.

"Time travel shenanigans are involved," she said with a nod. "Probably."

Europa shook her head - maybe she'd been unclear. "No, I said I don't think Chibimoon was involved." The princess had up and vanished a few years ago, taking some small part of Europa's heart and ability to trust with her. Whether she'd found her way back to her own timeline and sat as heir to the throne in the Crystal Millenium or was just out wandering the world, Europa had no way of knowing - but she didn't think that she'd be providing any more help to the senshi back in Destiny City. "But - it's an interesting idea. That someone sent the dreams as a warning."

A warning from who, though?

Europa pursed her lips. "Chibimoon told me about Sailor Pluto once. The guardian of time. She was powerful enough to send Chibimoon here - maybe she was powerful enough to send all those memories, too."

"But yeah," she added with a hasty laugh. "Contradictions. Contradictions everywhere. Just by seeing that path, we got off that path."

We create the future, she thought. Nothing was set in stone, and that was a little bit scary but also empowering. Whatever happened from here on out was their responsibility. "Well," she said, "I have your number now, and I'm pretty sure that these newfangled phones do texting?"

She held hers up.

"I mean, it has a touchscreen. It definitely does texting," she said. "So we can make plans? Nick and I live over in the historical district and we've got, like, a zillion restaurant suggestions."