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Natron frowned. Perhaps he had backed himself into being on the defensive, but this was the second time someone had accused him of being an alien and that just was not going to fly. "Hey, whoa, no, I am not some kind of alien, okay." He said. "And even if I am - was - whatever, I'm on the right side now and that's what matters." He said. "I'm here to make sure you Knights and your Senshi buddies and your Moon Queen don,t take over my planet, again."

He was, if nothing else, set in his beliefs, and thoroughly so.

Natron frowned. "Those monsters and freaks used to be people, you know," he said. "They were regular people, who rose up when the Moon Queen tried to take over the Earth." This sounded just like one of his conspiracy theories. That was probably why he knew the story so well. "Maybe you specifically don't have an agenda." He was willing to grant individual passes, perhaps. Vanadis had also seemed lost and confused more than threatening. "But the thing is? You're just one person. Order is huge."

He was doing his best not to yell anymore. That never won arguments anyway.

Natron nodded. That was...actually pretty well-reasoned. He was impressed. He'd gotten used to thinking of Order people as overly confident and far, far too sure of their rightness. "Well, I can appreciate that you're at least willing to consider that I'm not spewing ridiculous lies." He granted.

"Uhh, small misconception, I guess, draining energy doesn't actually hurt people if you're careful about it. As far as I know." He said. "And, er, I don't want to hurt anyone? Civilians at least." He really liked to think of himself as one of Earth's great defenders and he couldn't justify civilian casualties in that mental image. "But, I guess Order doesn't have the kind of organization we do. Which is a little ironic but," he shrugged, "if the people higher up have things they don't want you to know than I guess it kind of makes sense. You're the second person I've run into who's admitted to being pretty thoroughly lost."

It was certainly fair for Aventine to be certain that Natron was off his rocker. It was, quite frankly, true, and had been since well before he joined the Negaverse.

"I speak the truth as I know it and as I see it," he said. There was, to him, absolutely no reason to lie, not when the truth was so much more damning. "I dunno, maybe that's true, but like I said, there was so done else who told me she was really lost at first, too." He shrugged. "And I think that sucks, a lot, because it means you're getting punted into danger by whoever decides when you all wake up with nothing but some frilly pants and...what is your weapon anyway?" Knights, he'd managed to figure out, were like Negaversers in that they had some form of weapon or other. Knights just usually had even wussier ones than Negas. Which really only made sense since Negas were, in his view, Knights enlightened to the correct side of this little war of theirs.

Oh god, now he really felt bad for her. A perfume bottle? He couldn't even think of something cool and tough that would turn into. He also would have called it girly, but then, well, she was a girl and all that pink. It had to be a Venus thing. So he resisted the urge to comment.

He was legitimately surprised when she offers him a spritz. Ordinarily he would have turned it down (and the part of him that knew anything about relationships said that Toutatis was guaranteed to notice and it would be awkward and...) but, well, she had offered and really, it wouldn't be too terrible. "Sure," he said. "Uh, thanks."

He could play nice with her, and wasn't that sort of his job? Besides, their conflict was on a larger level, but that didn't mean he had to hate every single White Mooner, right?

Natron sniffed, and to his surprise, found he actually liked the smell of the perfume she carried. It wasn,t totally overbearing or disgustingly sweet, which was nice, and he didn't feel entirely stupid wearing it.

"Nope, not bad at all," he admitted. "Am I really?" He wondered if she'd offered to anyone else. Maybe they'd figured it wouldn't work or something, but dang that stuff smelled nice. He looked genuinely embarrassed at the idea of girls flocking to him. "I, uh, there's really only one girl..." Oh god had he just said that out loud to a Knight? Sure, it was one thing for him and Toutatis to be well-known as a couple within the Negaverse or the Dark Mirror Court, but did he really want the other side knowing?

Oh well, it was out.

Natronflushed and awkwardly scuffed his feet. Aliens, conspiracies, maybe even winning her over to the Negaverse? Easy. Talking about his girlfriend? Also easy, but slightly more awkward.

"She's, ah, a Dark Mirror, so sort of one of ours? I mean, the Negaverse and the Court are allies but they're not, you know, actually Negaversers and...I'm going to stop babbling now." He coughed. "Anyway, she's great."

He considered himself lucky to have shut up. He could talk about Toutatis plenty, though he wasn't aware that the Dark Mirror had a less than friendly stance on Knights, since it was sort of something that never came up.