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The moon hung high in the sky, providing an eerie silver light to read by. Its glow was cast over the entire city for not a single cloud hung in the sky. It had been a few days since her encounter with Ares, and ever since then she'd been on the lookout. She wanted to be prepared the next time a certain abomination in princess' clothing decided to show up again.

With pages of information spread out before her, Kallichore knelt in the middle with a pen in one hand. She'd been writing furiously on one paper, only to put it down and pick up another to edit. Her primer was still in its infancy, but was growing with information by the day. The Jovians meeting one another, plus meeting with others who would perhaps become part of the court gave her access to information she wouldn't normally have. Ares provided the most up-to-date entry on corruption, false prophets and general evil.

She tapped her pen against one stocking'd leg and narrowed her eyes. Things were becoming intertwined, little by little. Obviously the bigger picture was still a ways off, but every little snippet allowed them to view the entire war with increasing clarity. Perhaps one day they'd really understand what was going on.

At first, Kallichore didn't even look up. She recognized the boots immediately, with the lightning bolt and the laces. She knew it was Ganymede. But what he wanted then, she wasn't sure. Scribbling a few things onto her latest entry, she replied. "Yes? May I help you?"

There wasn't any animosity in her voice then, just professionalism. Truth be told she had no idea what he wanted to say to her other than something about lying, or withholding the truth. Something about being a creep or a bloodthirsty psychopath. Whatever it was, it would be loud and acidic. Of that, she was convinced and prepared accordingly. Her shoulders even tensed if one could see that clearly. Her fuku certainly did a good job of hiding movements of the upper torso well enough.

Papers rose and fell through her rampant scribblings. Kallichore was desperate to put to paper everything she'd learned in the past few weeks, hoping it would put an end to some of the questions the Court was having. She wanted to educate them and get them all up to speed. An educated team was far more dangerous than people would give them credit for.

They had things to do, asses to kick...

"...what?"

Her reaction was genuine shock. Looking up, Kallichore had an apprehensive stance about her, as if she wasn't believing what she was hearing. Surely this couldn't be Ganymede. Maybe he was drunk, or replaced with a youma like she thought at their first meeting? She blinked a few times and pondered how to react to this. She was expecting more acidity, more vile remarks. Kallichore didn't once think she was undeserving - on the contrary, she rather thought her actions spoke louder than any apology and when it came to the Blood Moon, she'd made a grave error of judgment. She thought Ares was going to be to the one to lead them to victory, but it was not meant to be. Victory, to Ares, meant forced corruption and insanity. Kallichore really only disagreed with the first one vehemently.

The super senshi rolled her shoulders back to sit in a more friendly position. "To be honest, Ganymede," she started, looking down at the concrete of the roof they were sitting on. "I don't blame you for being angry. It just didn't occur to me at the time to really explore my options. If you care at all." Her last statement was more of an apology than anything else. She wanted to be a part of the team as much as anyone else, but felt her previous reputation tainted her ability to be productive to the Court. So much was hanging over her. "Ares saved my life. I thought I was doing the right thing by joining her side and training as hard as I could. I wanted to be better, like she used to be."

A bare hand pushed back a few errant strands of early-gray hair. "For what it's worth, I haven't killed anyone. I haven't tortured anyone, unless you count my attack. But I can't help that." She chuckled quietly, hoping it really did seem like the joke she thought it was. "I know this doesn't make what happened right but... I am determined to walk the better path now. I see where I went wrong."

She tilted her head at the mentioning of knowing Valhalla's true identity. Indeed, he was the only one aside from Tallulah that knew hers. "I'm glad Chris means a lot to you. He and I... well, we happened upon each other's powers purely by accident, but I've kept his secret very closely." Kallichore meant that statement out of respect, and only mentioned it because Ganymede knew his identity too. Never once had she told anyone that she knew Valhalla's civilian self. Who he could have told about her own identity was a moot point - hardly anyone knew her as a civilian anyway. "He's an excellent person, I think. I'm glad you have him to lean on." He's an excellent choice.

The gray haired senshi leaned back a bit as if to stretch, eyeing the papers scattered all around her with disinterest. Suddenly they seemed infinitely less important now. "Even when I was with the Blood Moon, I felt... alone. While it was very structured, there wasn't much interaction. What kept me going is the thought that maybe I'd mean something, that my contribution would be acknowledged and praised. I thought that having a kind of lofty goal would keep me going, because if you stop and think about it..."

Her voice trailed off into a self-steadying sigh. "...it's really all overwhelming."

Somehow, in the space of that moment, she wondered if things had taken a slightly different turn, would she have ended up in this position? Would she even have to face Ganymede and the Jovians? If she were anyone else, would she have walked the same path as Ares? "No, I'm different because I chose not to go down the easy path. I chose not to throw myself into oblivion because things got difficult. That was Ares' problem. She's weak, self-centered and completely insane." It was almost said to herself, but Kallichore didn't care if Ganymede caught wind of what she was saying. It was more to help bolster her decision to leave the Blood Moon and to stay on the straight and narrow, if that's what this was.

Her fellow Jovian admitting that he understood a betrayal on that level meant a great deal to her. "We are in this together." she repeated, a hand covering her face. "...we don't have to be alone anymore." Perhaps Europa was right - good things may yet come of this. Only time would tell.

The fact of the matter was that the Jovians provided a sense of security and stability to an otherwise disorganized chaos on the senshi side. One of the factions within their group was now torn asunder thanks to one parallel princess. Truth be told, Kallichore wanted to leave that group long before Ares decided to descend into oblivion, but she told Birhan she would be there for an operation and wasn't about to back out of her word. Some operation that ended up being. Maybe she shouldn't have gone at all, but hindsight was always perfect, wasn't it?

"It will be better this time, I think." she started, keeping herself in a sitting position on her legs. If she sat down fully, she thought, her exhaustion may overwhelm her then and there. "We have each other and we're speaking like equals. There's no corporate ladder to climb and no secret meetings to have. No special red cloaks for the privileged few. That always drove me crazy - we're all supposedly equal and yet absolutely not. But that's a moot point." Kallichore shook her head to rid herself of that train of thought. It wasn't doing anyone any good right now.

Moving on...

She blinked, scooping up some of the papers into some semblance of organization. "I do wonder what the Court will decide as far as goals will be. I think it's a group decision to keep us all on the same page. Something incredibly less... bloodthirsty would be a nice change of pace." She was about to say 'violent' but there was something cathartic about defeating someone in combat. Lately though, the idea of chasing someone down in the heat of peaked adrenaline just didn't sound very appealing at all. "False prophets be damned. Did I tell you she came to me just a few days ago? Ares? Tried to tell me that I needed to be saved and that then I would be worth something. What filth and lies." Kallichore would have loved to spit on the princess to prove her point, but had decided then that doing so would be a death sentence. She'd rather escape with her life and a dent in her pride than anything else.

"The papers? Ah, they're my skeleton primer. Something I was working on while in the Blood Moon. I tried to get information out of them, but no one aside from Birhan seemed at all interested. A great deal of what I have comes from various sources - Europa, Polaris, Birhan, Juno... But yes, this is all my information. Would you like a page?" She had everything from Chibimoon to Elysion to the latest bits about Ares. Nothing was alphabetized yet. Sadness.

"You already do know some things I don't," she explained, watching intently as Ganymede picked up one of the pages of the primer. "You know more about the dream battle because you were there. I've only been awakened for a few months - hardly any time at all." Kallichore scooped up a few more pages and organized them alphabetically. Right now, they were all handwritten and somewhat messy. Eventually, she would take to typing them to be more easily legible and duplicated. Perhaps they could somehow digitize it all and send it through the senshi phones? Keep everyone on the same page as an educated front?

In her mind, Kallichore was convinced that Ganymede knew other things she didn't and had almost constant access to that kind of information. "I've been hearing that our past lives show up as ghosts or memories when we visit our moons. You know things about the past as well, I think. If you think it's necessary, I would like to know about Ganymede in the past. It's one of the larger moons so it had to have been important, right?" She knew a little bit about Europa based on what was said during her and Tallulah's last conversation, but it was nothing major. None of them knew what caused the entire universe to die off, but Kallichore had her theories. No doubt the Negaverse was behind in it some fashion.

She nodded when Ganymede mentioned the others. It was true - the entire Court had potential, each unique to the individual member. She thought that was an excellent way to run things - let everyone have equal say and take inventory of who knows what, who can do what and all that. "The more connections we have, the better. We can call on others to help and be called upon ourselves. It's good PR, I think, with the added bonus of more information that we ourselves cannot dig up."

Things inside her were calming down for the better.

"Really? You've only been there twice and seen so much? That's fascinating." Truthfully, Kallichore hadn't seen much in the several time she'd visited her own moon. There was a dead ocean, leveled villages and a small temple she'd seen, along with one large grassy field and a woman. That woman she kept seeing... but who was she? "People whispering your name? Perhaps you were a very popular individual back then?" Or he could have been the subject of intense rumors, but somehow if there were parties and music... that just didn't seem right, despite the fact that Ganymede's sphere kind of warranted it.

The senshi of lust also confirmed another suspicion Europa had explained - one can only have visions while on one's own moon, not on any else's. "There is a castle? I would like to see that someday." Being that Ganymede was so huge in comparison, the castle must have been magnificent in its heyday. Who knows - the castle may have been able to swallow the whole of Kallichore by itself. "I know very little about my moon despite being there... what... four times? Five times? I don't remember." The senshi tapped her chin in thought. "All I know is that there was once a small sea and several small villages... and one great grassland. It's still alive up there, somehow. I'm not sure how it all works. I haven't seen any of the others, or rather, if I have, I didn't recognize that's who I was looking at."

Ganymede had confirmed his past self was male, and Europa said her past self looked a great deal like her present self. So who was the woman Kallichore kept seeing on her moon? It couldn't have been Ganymede or Europa. "I do agree with you though. I think the answers to a lot of things lay in the past somehow. Perhaps these visions will give us a clue as to what happened to the kingdoms and what caused them to die.... and how to stop it from happening here on Earth. It's like our last bastion."

Simply admitting it was hard enough - knowing that there were countless civilizations out there that were wiped out in the blink of an eye... it was overwhelmingly terrifying. Kallichore knew she'd do her best to prevent the last planet from ceasing to live. She didn't want to have the disaster happen again if she could prevent it.

Once several piles were created, organization had been achieved. She nodded to his suggestion of typing it all up and digitizing it. "Yes, I could take it all home, transcribe it... After that, I'm not sure how to send it out other than through email, but that seems rather dangerous. We don't know how skilled the Negaverse is when it comes to hacking. I'm not sure I'd trust it." Kallichore flicked her wrist and brought her phone into existence, looking it over with a curious eye. "Perhaps we could send it out through these phones?"

The technology of the cats seemed nigh impenetrable when it came right down to it. Kallichore hadn't been able to figure out how the phones came apart, if they did at all. "I've never done a mass message before, but I don't see how it couldn't be done somehow. I would think this would limit the information to senshi only and not allow anyone skilled enough with a computer to access it. Some of this information should be kept for senshi eyes only, I think." No doubt the Negaverse already knew about Chibimoon since she was once on the side of Chaos. If Ares was on the dark side as well, an alliance could be formed. It was hard to tell at this point.

"If I can get more information by talking to people, that would be fantastic. As it stands right now I think the primer is as complete as it will be for now. Updates can always be made later as we discover things." She shrugged, finding the idea of learning from the past a more fascinating subject at the moment. If Ganymede found out anything that could help update the primer, then more power to the both of them. "Do you think this will help? All of this information? Or it is too overwhelming?"