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This time, Cora had no problems to find Hypnos. The little senshi sitting on Themis' shoulders was like a beacon in the night. She quietly followed Themis, not doing much about to get herself seen. When he met Bell, she sat down on the floor and examined them from afar.

The cat was nervous, not liking the tone senshis were speaking to each other. Ears twitching, she listened them. Cream-colored tail wiped the floor around her, showing signs of annoyance, if anyone bothered to look. Why they had to argue?

Everything Sidra had to say was filtered and weighed in Bellatrix's mind. The more she listened the more Bell knew she was on the right path. Her eyes had been opened to the fact that everyone, Negaverse agents and Senshi alike were, in the end, all people with hopes, dreams, feelings, and people who loved and cared for them, and Bellatrix knew she didn't have it in her to extinguish that without due cause.

Themis; hand was welcomed, and held firm as ther very roots of fortitude rebuilt themself in the once conflicted senshi.

In the end, they had nothing to go on but what was in their hearts.


It was then Bellatrix's eyes flittered to Cora. Bell had known Cora was a guardian cat the moment she had received the feline(and i suppose we assume Cora would have known on sight too?). It was Bell who ordered Cora to watch over Ainsley. Bell didn't know Ainsley and Hypnos were one in the same. yet.

"What are you doing here, Cora?" Came Bellatrix's whisper.

Hugbell bobbed her head, she had her hood down she came over to Polaris but now had pulled it back over her curls. Hoping to help hide herself more. "Hi..." She said softly as she was wrapped in a half hug.

She watched as the one who said she was 'almost' Cosmos, spoke watching her talking about hugging the negaverse, and the fight not being about that. The girl seemed a bit... Hugbell tilted her head she wasn't sure.... but something seemed a bit off. She paused, "Is she okay?" Hugbell wanted to tug Polaris over to investigate 'almost' Cosmos more, the child was curious but unsure if she should approach the older senshi.

Then she caught the voice again, her head tilted, "Chain?" She looked curiously up at Polaris, "What chain?" She tilted her head before looking around at the others.

Birhan had remained silent while Ares picked a fight with the...reborn senshi. Cosmos? Had someone else called her 'Nova'? Either way, the girl wasn't saying anything new. The same old 'follow the princess' stuff that the cats had been saying since day one.

She slowly moved closer to her leader, silent backup in the face of Ares' opposition. Clearly, the BMC opinion was not a popular one. It didn't matter. Birhan was used to being different from the norm, and the BMC had found a path that suited them. They wouldn't give it up just because some senshi-back-from-the-dead said to follow a princess who, not so long ago, was a corrupted enemy.

"If the princess isn't stepping up as a leader, you can't blame us for following someone who does," she said. Unlike Ares, Birhan remained calm but sure. Until someone provoked the readhead's temper, she was fine with her firm belief that Ares would be the one to make a difference in this war. "Haven't others done the same, forming their own little groups? Helios or Pegasus or whoever, has her own group of followers, right?"

Or so Nemesis had said while they received treatment after the Elysion ambush. It rankled Birhan that it was fine for people to follow a Priestess who hadn't wanted the senshi in her special Elysion garden, but not to follow Ares? Why? Because Ares was violent (Birhan preferred to think of it as getting the job done)? Because Ares was loud and opinioned (Birhan thought of it as 'confident and sure of herself')? Because Ares was a Parallel? (Birhan didn't have an alternate for that. But she also didn't care, since Ares was stuck here like the rest of them.)

Birhan edged closer to Scylla, as well. If this turned violent, she wanted a kickass power close by, not to mention someone to watch her back. The mention of the broken chain earned a shrug. "Dunno," she said quietly to Scylla. "Mysterious voices are so unhelpful with the details, doncha think? Something for the BMC to discuss later?"


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Elsewhere in the temple, Foramen hugged the shadows. He gathered what information he could, and let others argue. As far as he was concerned, one group was no better than any other.

This 'Cosmos' though... another interesting figure.

Europa had encouraged his idle thought to speak to Chibimoon at some point. Perhaps he should also hunt down this Cosmos person and see what they were all about, too.



(( Er, feel free to interact with either senshi. Even though Foramen looks/sounds very anti-social, he'll still talk if approached. Just making an IC reason for why he hasn't done anything during this so far... ))

Chain being broken ?

He wasn't sure what the voice meant by that, and it made him frown, even as Bell and Cora started to talk to each other, blissfully unaware that the tiny Senshi of Sleep sitting on his shoulders was the very person they were talking about.

He didn't like the sound of this, and really he found all the bickering ridiculous. Their window of opportunity to know more about this Metallia thing was gone, and no one had sought more information on it. He hadn't, and it made him frown more. He'd let himself be distracted by the fractured groups of senshi butting heads.

But Themis also played video games. It was unlikely they could have gotten more out of magical mysterious voices.

Themis had never been a leader figure, and he wasn't sure if he wanted that very same fractured mess to turn down on him if he said something they disliked. They clearly outnumbered him, after all.

And, well, it wasn't his damn problem. He had people to keep alive. Let them bicker if they wished - wouldn't it be so ironic if something jumped them while they were too busy bickering to notice ?

If they had to all somehow work together to win... Well, Themis wasn't sure this kind of miracle was possible.

Arsinoe listened to the various things going on around him and nodded slightly to himself. Half of it seemed like nonsense but the other half made sense. They did need to unite under a leader. If not one then a handful they could trust. Whether those leaders were fighters or were just beacons that others gathered to he didn't care so long as -someone- was there for others to believe in.

As the wall vanished and Castor spoke up he nudged his partner slightly, hoping she'd back him up. "I'm not really much of a fighter but i'll go with you and do whatever I can." He knew he couldn't hold his own one-on-one but working with Denebola had taught him that he could work well with others. "I don't really know any of you," His partner aside. "But if working together with all of you is what it takes to drive them out of this place, so be it."

Before Metis could really get a word in, Sailor Iris rather firmly placed a hand on her shoulder when that voice spoke again. "Now that's some interestin' sh*t... confusin'... but interestin'..." She shrugged, but then began to pull her companion along by the shoulder (no hand holding, sorry, that's gay) towards the group again since it suddenly seemed relevant again. Of course, the first thing she got greeted by was Castor's disgusting display. The senshi of Hail would quickly receive a scowl.

"Eh... Metis... gotta say hi t'someone real quick... jus' hold on... I'll be back..." Being considerate of her blind-but-not-really-blind companion, she patted a hand along the shoulder she had been tugging along before making her way to the rather foreign looking Sailor Nova (or Cosmos or whatever she went by now).

Sailor Iris was not the sentimental sort. However, she did feel slightly obligated to at least say something. Wiping off the scowl which Castor had caused in the first place, she put on a big grin. With a wave of the hand, she merely said "It's good t'see ya 'round, kid... glad t'see ya still kickin'..." It was simple, and in all honesty, completely irrelevant to a majority of the conversation. Having said her two cents, she departed just as abruptly as she had approached, offering "I hope t'see more of ya 'round, kid!" Even with Sidra/Nova/Cosmos still being older, Sailor Iris was still calling her a kid. Typical Sailor Iris inaccuracies and lack of formalities.

Soon enough, Iris was beside her teammate once more, hand again on the brunette's shoulder. "So... maybe cuz I'm hearin' some buzz from th'others 'ere... but I'm kinda curious... Do ya think we should go towards that doorway and maybe at least take a peek at what's goin' on there?" There was a slight squeeze to Iris' hand. If there was one thing that the yellow suited senshi knew about her companion, it was the fact she didn't see things the way everyone else did.