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She probably should've gone home after the whole encounter with the Dark Mirror senshi from earlier. But honestly, Vanadis was still a bit weirded out by how aggressively she'd responded to the other's words, not to mention the completely random initiative she'd shown in actually attacking first.

Well. Not completely random - she'd always, always been very firm in her beliefs of being kind and good and nice to everyone, after all, and the other senshi had totally not been doing that. So maybe she'd over-reacted a bit, but Vanadis had never been confronted with the urge to fight someone before, never; she'd done it because it was her duty, or because she was saving a civilian, or even just to defend herself, but she'd never, ever really wanted to fight someone. Except for tonight.

And now she was wandering around, a bit more bruised than she'd begun the evening - the most notable of which was a lovely black eye still forming. Really, she should've gone home to bed. Instead, Vanadis was roaming the streets, looking confused and half-lost in thoughts. It was only inevitable that she'd end up running into someone in this state, really.

She hadn't even noticed the Chaos signature creeping in, which was probably a good indication that she shouldn't have been out and about on her own. But it was a bit too late now that the guy in question was talking to her and--

Wait. Vanadis blinked, staring at the guy for a bit. He was handsome, she thought, and she was pretty sure that she'd have been blushing right about now if it wasn't because she was still so weirded out from her earlier fight. As it was, he'd asked her a question, and a really nice one, at that. "Oh, um-" she hesitated for a second, blinking again before shaking her head to clear her thoughts, "I'm f-fine. Well, not right now because it kind of hurts, but they're just bruises and they'll probably be gone in a few days, anyway. I hope."

She floundered for a moment, just watching him before she finally attempted a nice smile. He didn't seem so bad, after all, and hadn't she just been the one making a big deal about treating people nicely? "How about you?" She took a step closer, testing the waters to see if he'd freak out when she moved or anything like that. You never knew.

Okay, so he was definitely not freaking out - that was a plus, in her book. The haze from her earlier fight was starting to wear off, and she noticed that he was armed just in time to feel faintly alarmed before he de-summoned his, er, ball? It looked faintly familiar, but Vanadis had never been very good at gym class; too un-coordinated, despite her lanky frame that'd briefly made her popular as the girl to pick for basketball. The look of the ball rang a bell, but she couldn't put an actual name to it. Not that it mattered anymore, now that he'd de-summoned it, or whatever it was called when Negaversers made their weapons vanish.

"Oh, that's good to h-hear." Her smile got a bit brighter, now that she was pretty certain he wasn't distracting her with conversation only to find an opportune moment to attack. "Er, I'm a senshi, but not really... from outer space?" She blinked, thinking for a moment. "I'm pretty sure I'm from Earth, y'know like, born and raised? My parents are from D-Denmark, but I'm not really sure that counts as outer space." She sounded a bit dubious though, as though it wouldn't really surprise her that much to be told that Denmark was actually outer space.

"I, er, guess so? Sorry, I don't really know a whole lot of details about this senshi thing. Been out of t-the loop for a bit and all." She laughed awkwardly, fiddling with a pigtail. It was true that she was representing the asteroid Vanadis, but she'd never really thought of it like her soul being from outer space, regardless. Her soul was just her, wasn't it? Nothing weird about it. Although she guessed some people would consider being a senshi 'weird', so maybe he wasn't that far off after all. Oh well, it was all a bit confusing, really.

"Sailor Vanadis, Senshi of Wards." Despite the odd circumstances, she shook his hand with her usual enthusiastic yet limp grip. "You, um, have a weapon, right?" Looking more than a bit excited, she continued, "W-was it that ball you were holding earlier?" She'd never really had a chance to discuss Negaverse weapons with, well, anyone and she was really curious, OK. And who better to hear the details from than the source! It was worth a try, at least, right?

"Yeah! At least, um, that was what I came up with w-when I went searching to find out what it was. And it fits with what my power does I guess, so, um, that's probably what it is." She had spent a considerable amount of time tracking down everything she could about wards when she'd first become a senshi. Googling had been her preferred method - most of it had been stuff from various video games though, but eventually she'd managed to find some websites about ancient wards. There'd also been a couple of books, but they hadn't really been for amateur historians; they'd used a lot of fancy words and referenced a lot of other books with even fancier words, and had generally just been fairly useless.

"Oh wow, that's awesome!" Squinting inquisitively at the dodgeball, she tried to see if it had any hidden spikes or traps or, really, anything that made it a better weapon. Nope, it seemed to be just a normal dodgeball to her eyes. "Do you like, k-know how it gets better? I mean, is there like, a chart or something? Although you can probably still do a lot of damage with a dodgeball, couldn't you? Maybe give someone a concussion. Or a black eye." She absentmindedly touched her fingers to the bruise forming around one of her eyes. Stuff like that could really hurt, she now knew firsthand.

"Y-yeah, it definitely doesn't seem like the worst weapon." At least in her opinion - frankly, sometimes she thought she'd be better off with a dodgeball, rather than the purely defensive magic she'd gotten. Being able to ward off enemies wasn't so very useful when trying to bash a youma's face in. But it was an OK ability, she figured, even if it lacked the sheer usefulness of Ganymede's attack.

"Oh, um, no," she grimaced, "had to figure out how it worked the hard way. Like, trial and error? It w-was pretty touch and go for a while there in the beginning." Had certainly made fights a bit of a hazard, that was for sure. "And I'm not entirely sure what it'll do later, but it'll probably have something to do with wards again." She thought for a second. "I think that once you, um, hit Super Sailor stage, your attack gets even awesomer. Like, it gets upgraded with new stuff? And then for Eternal - that's the one with the butt-wings - I think you get a whole new magic. At least that's what I've g-gathered." There was always a possibility that she'd been misled somehow, but the information sounded pretty sound to Vanadis.

Maybe she should've felt a bit bad about sharing information with the enemy, but Natron was just so nice. And it wasn't like he wouldn't learn all this stuff by himself, eventually - she was sure any Negaverser who was in action for more than a couple of months could figure this stuff out. So she just sped things up a bit for him, no big deal.

"Oh wow, that must suck. W-what kind of stuff did they get?" Every Negaverser she'd met so far had seemed pretty lethal, and definitely not impeded by anything like useless weaponry. Or maybe she was just so bad at fighting that even useless weaponry could get the better of her. Hmm.

"That sounds awesome! Having someone to help me out when I was starting w-would've been really nice. Really nice." The kind of nice that could've possibly prevented quite a few beat-downs. That kind of nice.

She nodded, "Yeah, at least that's how I've, um, understood it to be. B-but it depends a lot on what you're a senshi of, like, some spheres are just more bad a** than others, I guess?"

"A paintbrush?" Vanadis boggled. "That's... really bad, yeah. You d-definitely got the better end of the stick, then. I mean, I'm pretty sure even Sailor Scout attacks are more useful than that, really." But she nodded thoughtfully when he mentioned being physically stronger - that did make sense to her. Certainly all the Negaversers she'd ever fought seemed to hit harder than she did.

"It's all a bit of a learning p-process, I think. Like, there's so many little things that even though you have help, you still have to discover some of it for yourself. Or, um, at least that's how I've looked at it." Her brow wrinkled, "and some of the senshi spheres are just a bit odd, honestly."