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It wasn't very often that Adira Perses henshined up during the sunlight hours. As a scout, she preferred to patrol at night, where she could slip away into the darkness and no longer be seen. But something today was different. Something in her today said that Sailor Perseus needed to bathe in the sunlight. Perhaps it was a bit of Neso rubbing off on her, or perhaps it was the color of the sky today reminded her of the sky on Perseus. Whatever the root cause was, the senshi found herself laying amongst the wildflowers in a mostly abandoned corner of the park.

It was spring, finally. The ground was still a little cold, coming out of its thaw, but the grass and flowers were in full color, and the warm sunlight filtered out any discomfort. Even the local insect population had started to come back; a few butterflies and bees getting an early start on the summer collections.

Peaceful. A small breeze ruffled through the grass and moved the clouds across the sky. An occasional hum of a passing bug. These were the only sounds to interrupt her silent cloud gazing. A new noise added to the background gave her pause though, causing the sailor to peek up over the flower line to see what was making all the ruckus. It was harder just to laze about with her power signature, something usually ended up finding her.

The wave of power that hit her senses, however, was not of anything that felt normal. It felt like... cosmos. "Kurma?" She'd met the eccentric star-guide once before, when she'd been pulled out of DC and into the orbit around the earth. It felt like the same power signature that they'd all wondered at before.

It was fitting seeing the super power surrounded by demanding birds. He had such an interest in the unknown of the everyday, and it was apparent in everything that he did. "Yes, it would still be considered morning. Though it is halfway between morning and afternoon, so I guess either would be appropriate." The birds were cute, if not a little annoying during a conversation. The cheeping had to be talked over. A couple of more adventurous birds hoped over towards Perseus, seeing if she had delicious food too.

"Fancy meeting you at a time like this. What brings you all the way out here?" It was odd seeing another powered being out in the daytime- Senshi and Negaversers seemed to be creatures of the night. Somehow seeing the magical outfits in full daylight made them seem more like costumes than powered suits. Maybe just like her, Kurma had a day off and wanted to do something a bit more peaceful with his powered side.

Perseus let out a small chuckle at Kurma's 'mixing it up a little'. He really was a strange one, but it was something that she enjoyed. If anyone could challenge the 'status quo' in her life, it was Kurma. "Considering I don't know how to do much else, yes I walked. Though I supposed I can space travel now too, even if to a very limited destination. Which is all because of you, of course." It was the most epic thing she'd ever learned as a senshi, and she owed it all to the man who was covered in birds at the moment.

"Though I must say that your appearance here is rather fortuitous..." Perseus paused, wondering how to phrase the rest of her sentence without being too pushy. "I must admit that your initial arrival opened up a lot of questions that I've not really been able to find answers to. I've worked here and there at asking the cats and going through what little isn't locked in the database, but its difficult to piece things together when you don't have, well, the cosmic perspective." It was her own roundabout way of asking if she could ask him questions. She hoped that he would understand without her having to be blunt about it, but wasn't quite sure what to expect in his response. Then again she wasn't sure if she would ever know what to expect from him.

"If it would be too bold of me, would you mind listening to some of my questions?" Perseus smiled. "What answers you do or don't give are completely up to you."

"Well, speaking of stars..." Perseus paused, wondering how to word her question to not sound rude. She didn't know Kurma all that well, but she had a large amount of respect for his abilities at the very least, and he'd always seemed quite the affable person each time she'd encountered the guide to the cosmos. The sailor scout sighed. As much as she wanted to ask what happened to her home world, she had another question that had pressed upon her mind since her first week of senshi-dom. So far, no one she had asked had been able to answer, or if they had been able to they hadn't let on.

"I suppose that question will have to wait until I've asked one that has bothered me since the beginning." Perseus stood silently for a second, eyes diverted to the birds who were slowly dwindling away as she composed her thoughts. "I know that the Negaverse are corrupt, but what corrupts them? The only answer I've ever gotten from this was 'evil' but it doesn't actually explain much of anything." The senshi could feel the degrading of the soul every time she was around a Negaverse officer, and ever since her initial talks with Zinkenite she had been curious.

Bright blue eyes shifted back to the Comos guide, waiting to see if he would answer.

"You have no idea how long it took me to find out the information I already know." The girl paused a bit before answering his question, going over the conversations she'd had with Negaverser's over her time as a senshi in her head. The silence wasn't so much awkward as it was thoughtful. "Well, to be honest I'm not really sure. On one hand, they defend their actions by saying they are protecting the earth from those who don't belong...mainly us." A bit of a frown accompanied this. "But on the other hand, protecting the citizens of earth doesn't exactly line up with stealing its innocent's starseeds and energy."

The two inconsistencies had continued to boggle her mind since the first night she'd sat down to actually think about it. "At the very least, they want the senshi to be gone." That part, at least, was abundantly clear. Despite her unnaturally fast healing abilities, her previously pristine skin was still marred by a few scars that had refused to go away. In the beginning, she had hated them, spending hundreds on therapies and concoctions to get rid of them. At this point, however, both Adira and Perseus had learned to live with her scars. She hadn't accepted them yet, but it was a step in the right direction.

Perseus mulled it over in her head a little bit. The force that corrupts them? She had wondered at various points how the Negaverse got its power to corrupt, but had never really thought it as a driving force behind them. What exactly were they fighting for then? "I...guess I'm not sure. I have no idea where the power of the Negaverse comes from."

She fell silent for a second, considering the implications. "Though, if its strong enough to corrupt the starseed of even a senshi... it has to have some kind of ulterior motives." Bright blue eyes stared into Kurma's own, looking for answers. "Are you saying that its making them blind to their own evil? What is it exactly that you are driving at Kurma?" She didn't do anything to mask the confusion and horrified curiosity on her face. Did he really know the answers to her questions?

"Chaos..." Perseus wrapped the word around her head, thinking about it. So there was a force called Chaos running around the galaxy that corrupted people into doing its bidding? From Kurma's last statement, it could either be a force in the galaxy seeking minions or a tool for those that found it helpful. "So corruption is being pumped full of Chaos then?" She couldn't honestly say she quite grasped the concept, but it was nice to have a name.

"And in turn Chaos eats away at their starseed, gives them power, and gives them the sense that what they are doing is right, even though it goes against the things they claim to be protecting?" She knew it was a bit childish to talk everything through that she had learned, but it helped her make the connections in her mind and Kurma could correct if he caught something wrong.

"What does Chaos get out of the deal then?" It had to go both ways. She couldn't see something like that pumping out its resources for nothing. There had to be a balance, something that tipped the scales in its favor of putting out the effort. Perseus couldn't honestly tell what it would gain. Maybe it fed on people's souls, or needed the energy of their starseeds to survive? Or maybe it just wanted a presence in the universe, mucking everything up.

Perseus looked up at Kurma in confusion, hoping for some kind of answer. It was off topic from what she was mulling over, but seeing him floating like that always made her jealous.

She mulled it over quietly in her head, wondering about all of the things that he had said. "You've given me quite a lot to ponder about Kurma. Thank you for answering my questions." Perseus checked the time on her bodice, noticing the lateness of the hour. Already their early afternoon talk had slipped into the afternoon.

"It helps quite a bit to know some more about what we are up against. Or at least, what has pitted itself against us." It seemed more accurate than the first version, considering that if the knights were truly what uncorrupted negaverser's were, then there was no need for them to fight. Her only home was here, as much as Perseus's song called to her.

"It is sad to see people use such a thing, or be used by it." She still wasn't sure what she thought on the matter. Perseus would have to sit and ponder about it for a while. But it had a name, and that made it all the more real of thing; a more palpable enemy than a shadow in the darkness of the heart. "It is time I got going however, as informative as chatting with you is. Thank you for everything." She extended a friendly gloved hand to the floating man.