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She'd felt the cellphone ringing in her body more than anything else. It was a bizarre feeling, being buzzed from the inside. Nonetheless, Perseus pulled the device from the subspace pocket and flipped it open to read the message inside. It was short and sweet, which is something she would expect from the newly crowned prince of hail.

Interesting, so he wanted to meet? It had been a while since the two had met up, the last few times over training sessions or random youma hunting meetups. It didn't take her long to get to the designated meeting place, ascending to the roof with relative ease. "Its been a while, dear prince." It was easy banter with a casual friend.

While she hadn't liked Castor much in the beginning, Perseus had grown relatively fond of him. He was good at heart, and stood for many of the same values that she did. Certainly, she would not argue that he wasn't rough around the edges, but he got things done which is what counted in the end, both as a senshi and in the real world. Life was complicated, and he understood that fact, and never judged anyone because of it. "How have you been?"

"Crystal huh?" Truth be told, while Perseus had heard of the crystals she'd never actually seen one with her own eyes, having missed the dream battles in Elysion. The girl was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of information and rambling coming from the older male. She knew he was a bit more chit-chatty than most, but honestly she hadn't ever seen him talk so much. And to hear him, the previous ladies man of Destiny City, talking about marital problems was something else entirely. Time had such an odd effect on people.

"Yea, I almost died getting it though." Drowning in a furious water youma was not exactly what she had called a picnic. "Rosalind is good too, though yea, still a bit fussy. Getting better at fighting things without her shoes though." It had made her head palm in pretty much every situation she'd seen it in. "Haven't seen much of her lately though, at least not since I got back."

She skipped over that part mostly. "Being a senshi has been great lately. I've been teaching more and more now how to spacewalk, and have done a bit of training with my team and with a few others. I know quite a crowd of chibi senshi too, I think they like me because I'm their size." She joked lightly. "Can't say I agree with them being awoken still though." Which was the honest truth. Children had no place in a war with chaos. "Its good to see a familiar face though. Lots of new ones have been cropping up lately, on both sides unfortunately, though meeting the pages has been interesting." Pages in general had been an interesting concept to her. It was unconfirmed for sure, but with Lina being cleansed into the faction and with their weapons... they seemed like what a Negaverse agent should be, sans corruption.

"I met a Page of Earth who was a rather upstanding fellow. Helped me take down a youma shaped like a bookshelf. Functional and evil." His aura had felt odd to hers, and it was the same feeling she had gotten when Lina had arrived at the youma hunters gathering. "By the way... congrats on Lina and marriage, despite how rocky things seem to be now. I guess my advice is remember how hard you fought for her in the first place." Perseus remembered the controversial Halloween ball fight, and Castor's ill-fated battle kiss with the Negaverse. It hadn't gone over well with those that had seen it.

"You should be one to talk, Mr-wings-and-a-crown." She would have never pegged the Castor she had met before to be a prince, with all of his rough edges. "I will if I see her, we haven't really been training or patrolling together much anymore." Between her impromptu trip and school and Rosalind's obligations, they'd grown apart over the last few months. Perseus didn't quite know what to do about it, but that was a topic for another time and she left it at that.

Perseus tracked his eyes and followed her gaze out to the city as well. "Its not even like the cat that awoke them told them what was happening either. Hug-bell and Ixion didn't have much of a clue when I first met them." She paused for a moment, touching her shoulder lightly. It was where the diamond shaped scar still lingered, made by Painite's spear. "Though I imagine they have more of a clue after the battle that ensued at camp. I watch out for them when I can though." Calls from Chibi's on her phone were priority marked.

The talk of Chibimoon got her distracted however. She'd always meant to track down the Princess and ask about her story, but had never seemed to accomplish it. Maybe she should start that hunt again. Her talk with Kurma about Chaos had gotten her thinking about a lot of things, and Chibimoon might have a lot of interesting things to say on the matter. "Endouchyion? Thats an interesting nickname." While she hadn't participated in the fight for Elysion, she'd been given a recap that had included the less than courteous Prince.

Moving her eyes back to Castor, Perseus attempted to switch the topic of conversation. It was a hard topic, but he summed it up in the last statement perfectly. "So, what else have you been up to PrincyPants?"

Perseus listened to Castor's rambling with a bit of good natured humor. He was very good at talking about whatever came to his mind at the moment, and the notion that they had some kind of space STD sent her giggling. "At least this disease is more helpful than not." It was better to have a virus that made you super strong and awesome versus contracting one that made you sick and killed you.

"Kid's fighting is unsettling. I would love to remove them from any semblance of harm at all, but at least if they face something they can face it knowing they can at least try to fight back, which is more than I can say of civilian children." She couldn't even imagine how many of them had been caught unawares by monsters lurking in the night- it wasn't something Perseus wanted to dwell on.

"Castorian Beetles?" The news about his crystal had also surprised her though. She had just sort of assumed when you inherited your planetary power you inherited the knowledge that went along with it, though apparently the universe wasn't that kind. Power didn't often come easily though; with great responsibility and all of that nonsense. "That sounds less than pleasant. I'm glad my planet only has green things living on it, and so far none of those has tried to kill me." One a more serious note, Perseus deterred back to the previous conversation. "I'm sure that it will come with time, you just have to keep honing your skill."

"When children grow up in war, it's understandable that it gets harder for them as things go on." Unbidden, her memory turned to her first battle, more of a dance floor than a battle field. Looking back, it seemed like so long ago- the talks with the same enemy that would no longer sit to have childish conversations with anyone else. Each encounter now was a dangerous waltz of death and life. The game had gotten serious, and the players were pawns.

"It is good that there are at least a few formidable powers on our side of things. It always seems the Negaverse has a leg up on us always. But chaos is a powerful force I suppose." Perseus was more than pleased to hear him laughing. It was something that didn't happen often enough the last few times she'd seen him.

"Everyone is always learning, though I do appreciate the lessons... even if they were a bit harsh sometimes." That youma had been the grossest thing she'd ever fought. The sailor refrained from commenting on his war comments. What exactly was setting the world right? Nevertheless, she smiled at his hopefulness. Hope was a rare commodity in their business, and she wouldn't deprive him of it.

"I could certainly drop by any training sessions you wanted to host, just let me know when and where. " Perseus had been wanting to inform newer senshi of their resources in the database and herself, but had a hard time running into the younger senshi.

Not that she was old! But being a senshi for as long as she had made her feel old. She wondered if it had something to do with her soul being reborn as many times as it had. Perseus smiled, remembering the previous teaching that she had attended. It had been interesting, and definitely a good experience. "I wouldn't mind picking up civilian-style fighting lessons either, if you were up for them again." They'd trained together a few times and Castor made a good motivator in that regards. She'd been lacking on physical exertion lately with most of her time being spent studying or up in the surrounding. Time management was getting increasingly hard.

"Don't be too much of a stranger Castor. I've been missing your face around." She mock punched him in the arm, smiling. Despite his rough demeanor and even rougher tongue, Perseus had come to like the prince. He was honest and compassionate, something that too many others on both sides of the coin lacked.