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Pendour
Transcendent Knight of Neptune

MOOD: Slightly Less Calm
ACTION: Trying to deescalate the Lourdes situation.

It was the sounds of threats and insults that pulled Pendour's attention away from the stars, and her friends, and towards the rest of the group and the situation they'd found themselves in.

One of the knights, one she recognized from her tea party, was yelling and raising a weapon against the Velencyans. A few people were coming in to stop her, a Mars knight and a senshi in red, but they were being confrontational about it in their own way.

She didn't want the Vanguard to feel threatened, but on the other hand, the thought of internal conflict among her allies made her heart hurt worse.

"That, um. That looks bad," she told Encke, and Basi, and Viatrix, and then she was walking away from her little bubble of close friends, and towards the little bubble of Velencyans and anger.

"Don't," she said, her eyes wide, pleading, as she looked between the two knights, the one senshi, the Velencyans with their weapons. Fae-Fae and one of the others seemed to be kissing and ignoring everything else, so maybe the situation wasn't completely unsalvageable. "Please. Not here, where all of us are in danger, maybe."

Not anywhere else, either, but she could try to talk about that afterwards.

"Just, take a breath, okay? Here."

She put her ocarina to her lips and played a few bars. That always seemed to help.

MURIKABUSHI
Dark Mirror Court, Senshi of Hunger (Basic)

MOOD: “!!!!”
ACTION: “Oh hey, someone I know!! …You coming with or not, person I just met?”

As had been the case with Morpheus (and to a lesser extent Remarque), maybe not all the other Dark Mirror Senshi were exactly fun to meet. Granted, the situation sucked and Reiki could acknowledge that he was hardly being his best self, but his point remained valid. Logos still hadn’t done anything wrong, but honestly, how many of their Court had actually come here? For all they knew, it might’ve only been the two of them, with a whole metric ******** of other people from other factions.

“Listen, sis,” he told her, trying to be a little bit gentler, “the way I see it? There are a bunch of people here who have big teams with them, and only two of us. There might not be any other Dark Mirrors here, either. So, we either need to get a move on, find some allies before this turns into the Hunger Games or something, or possibly both, if we can……”

As he felt a bright, powerful aura coming near them, he trailed off and perked up. Not toward them, properly—she seemed to be heading toward the citadel itself, like Murikabushi had planned to do—but……still, she was near enough to them. Following the feeling, he looked around until his eyes landed on a familiar, petite figure in a purple hood, with glowing purple tattoos all up and down her arm.

“Speaking of allies,” he whispered to Logos, “that Eternal over there? I know her. She’s good people. Not hostile to us.” A quality he valued so much more after meeting Sailor Untitled Goose Game and getting attacked, then stalked to the ER, all because he’d wanted to help someone. “She’s powerful, too. Sticking with her would be safe, and give us a lot of backup against any Negaverse ******** who came to play.”

Turning back in Ida’s direction, he waved to her and called out, “Hey! Ida!” Only after taking a few steps toward the Eternal senshi did he glance back to Logos. “You coming or not? And if not, well…nice meeting you, look for me in the gayborhood when we get back home. Or don’t if you want; I’m not your boss.”

Terebellum
Deep Space Senshi of Resonance

MOOD: P A N I C R A G E
ACTION: Calling her magic and backing away in A G O N Y as it backfires

Terebellum's tail collided with something, shocking her and the thing it collided with. She turned, hand coming to sweep her tail under her skirts like an unruly child. An apology died in on her lips as she stared down at the agent on the floor below her. He blubbered something at her and she sneered. Look at the poor little thing, dripping Chaos. She could end it now, she could---

A larger aura flared almost immediately, its owner glaring at her while chastising his comrade. Then another, and a traitorous chaos senshi. It was the fifth addition to the group that made Tere's blood boil. The Chaos auras were already setting her on edge, but now they weren't even paying attention to her!

"You.... abominations!" she snarled, quickly crouching down to press a hand to the floor. "Resonance Amplification!" Terebellum felt the magic surge down her arm, a little too wild, a little too uncontrolled. No matter. She'd trap these people in the ground and end their miserable existences.

Except, the ground didn't start to do warp and vibrate. No. She couldn't hear the resonance here. It was too muddled it was too loud it was-- The magic rebounded off the ground and slammed back into her hand. Pure white agony shot through her arm and she recoiled with a shout. She hit the ground and scrambled backwards, craddling her now vibrating arm against her chest.

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Naeria
Vanguard Cadet

MOOD: Calm and loving and sleepy
ACTION: Leaning on Andreiya

Naeria didn't have a full concept of what was going on. It was getting very loud very quickly, so loud that her head was starting to spin.

Kurma was gone. She didn't have to protect him, or worry about that right now, but in exchange, the humans were closing in again, getting angry again. What was it with the humans, anyway? Why did they always get so angry?

Why was that woman yelling and waving her staff and doing something that looked like magic just because Tenoch had waved his hand in her direction?

Naeria didn't know. She just knew that she was going to do what she always tended to do when she was nervous, and her best friend was around. She walked over to stand next to Andreiya, shoulder to shoulder. They'd kept each other alive before. They could do it again.

That was when something shifted in her head. She felt fuzzy, first. Warm. Then, she felt sleepy.

She leaned over onto Andreyia's shoulder, her eyes fluttering shut just as some lights flicked on in the distance.

Ash
Order Guardian Cat

MOOD: Excited and Curious
ACTION: Going to greet their hosts

Ash had been meaning to go meet the other cat... she'd wanted to see who else was here, who they were, and maybe make a friend. She'd had the best intentions of doing that, before the music started up.

Grey ears perking from her blue hair, she stretched up on her toes to see what was happening. A carpet unrolled towards them and then lights sudden glowed and... was that figures? There were people besides themselves here? Thoroughly distracted, the mauvian's course was rerouted and she padded past the others, stepping right onto that old, worn out carpet with hardly a qualm. She'd so rarely gotten to visit another world, and this whole thing was very exciting.

"Hello!" She called as she lifted an arm to wave. "Did you folks bring us here? There was a strange light, and then we were just alone here and some guy went off to figure out what was going on."

Lourdes
Venus Squire

MOOD:
ACTION: Interacting with Pendour and Kerberos

Hang on... hang on... hang on, wait. Two of them were... were kissing? They should have felt distraught! Alone. Utterly unloved by everyone. They shuldn't be... wait did another say I really love you, bro? That wasn't... that wasn't right at all. That wasn't what her magic did. Or at least she'd never seen it do that before.

And she'd wasted all her magic on that one attack. If she could call it that.

Lourdes flashed an angry snarl at the smaller senshi who had allied himself with the aliens.

"That's fine with me, Twinkle Toes. You align yourself with them, you're as good as a traitor to me."

Words she knew she shouldn't be saying. Words born of anger and, more importantly, fear. Words she couldn't control and knew she would regret later. But for right now... for right now... her mind had slipped back into base survival. She kept reliving that night when chaos almost took her back over. When her beautiful pink and blue uniform reverted back to hideous brown and yellow. She remembered the way her gorgeous scepter turned to an ugly iron mace in her hands.

And that would not be happening again. Not while he was still alive to stop it.

And then Pendour stepped up and Lourdes' face all but crumbled. That wonderful knight from the tea party. She was... she was... defending them too?

"Pendour, they're traitors," she whispered, her voice breaking as the magic of Pendour's ocarina took effect. Slowly, surely, her heart eased and the anger faded, leaving only raw, horrible fear. It took all the air out of her. All of the fire. She sunk to her knees and tried to steady her breathing and her hands. She would not cry. No matter how hot her eyes felt. She couldn't. She wouldn't. Not in front of the traitors.

"They sold us out, Pendour. We lost... we lost people. How can you?"

Her voice was weak in her ears and she hated it. But she felt so small now that her anger was gone.



Logos
Dark Mirror Super

MOOD: Irritated
ACTION: Talking with Murikabushi and now Ida

A lot was happening. The senshi who insisted that he was so focused went from asking Logos if she wanted to be "lambs to the slaughter" to insisting that they followed a white moon senshi around. She physically recoiled at the name "sis" and allowed her expression to sour slightly. She'd hardly been able to formulate a response between his statements, and now she had to switch tracks to try and keep up. but she did her best, following his indication to the white moon senshi he was speaking about. She certainly felt powerful. That much was true. But what was she going to do with that power? And then the basic senshi was just leaving. He showed up to spout some nonsense about sleeping with aliens which seemed teribbly unsound given the situation, and now he was leaving? For a White Moon Senshi?

And he came so highly recommended by Miss Acubens, too. She'd be having a word with the eternal about what happened. To ally yourself with a White Moon before a Dark Mirror... Even if Acubens had always told them to make alliances with the white moon, she had always insisted that the Court came first and to keep those alliances hidden from the negaverse.

"Fine," she relented, if only to keep an eye on the clearly unfocused basic, and followed him towards Ida. "But we need to be less conspicuous. If the negaverse catches us fraternizing with the White Moon, we could be in trouble."

Sessrumnir
Knight of Jupiter

MOOD: High alert and stressed like woah
ACTION: Guarding Ephesus and Amarynthos with Alastor and responding to them

Sessrumnir could feel the hair on the back of his neck prickle when it seemed as though there was an altercation going on between a Squire and most of the Velencians. They didn’t seem to be in range to endanger Ephesus or Amarynthos, but it was a good idea to keep an eye on them.

Others were breaking off into their own groups as well, but Sessrumnir was being cautious and staying in one place for as long as possible. At least until they needed to move.

The unrolling of a carpet and playing of a strange tune was next to catch his attention. The lights, welcome sign, decorations-- figures waving them in -- had Sessrumnir tensing once more.

He caught Alastor’s eye, a clear request for him to remain on guard.

In his opinion, the Velencians at least had one thing right: remaining in a group was a key survival tactic. The ones straying would get picked off. Which was why Sessrumnir had every intention of keeping those he was protecting close to him.



Ephesus
Page of the Moon

MOOD: Scared but intrigued
ACTION: With Amarynthos, Alastor, and Sessrumnir

Alastor had promised they’d be able to go home, so he nodded in agreement and stayed close to Amarynthos, while also trying to see what was going on around them. The sky was pretty, and he squeezed Amarynthos’ hand to let him know that he was listening.

He was just also distracted by… everyone else.

There were really tall people with pastel colored skin, and others with tails. Some weren’t getting along very well, and Ephesus flinched and closed his eyes when he heard people yelling at each other.

But then there was music--

“What is that?” he couldn’t help but ask as he opened his eyes again. He knew he should do exactly what Alastor and Sessrumnir had them do, but everyone else seemed to be going towards some kind of party that was set up. For them? But why? And were those people?

They were waving at them so... Ephesus did the only polite thing he could think of and lifted a shy hand to wave back.