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The tree lined place the squire had picked to rest in just so happened to be the park Navi and her fellow teammates considered their home territory, though since she was on the outskirts, the senshi currently patrolling within didn't notice her right away. Not until Navi was making her way back towards one of the mirrors installed throughout the park.

She paused when she picked up on the power signature, turning automatically in that direction despite being too far away to see anything though the dark and the trees. It wasn't senshi she felt, but it was Order, and unless there was another faction under the White Moon that could only be one thing. "Knight."

It was one thing for Navi to go out looking for the knights, but to stumble upon one in her own territory was something else entirely. She didn't like it, not one little bit, so when she slide from the shadows between two trees near the squire the expression she wore was less then friendly or inviting. The girl didn't like knights, considered them useless on top of the personal vendetta she carried for them. It took quite a lot of self control to face the woman on the bench calmly instead of attacking her while she least expected it.

"Get the ******** over what?" The woman had been talking to herself, and Navi had caught the tail of it as she'd neared. Now she was admittedly curious, though that didn't significantly improve her disposition. She still looked angry, and as she shifted her weight to rest primarily on one hip she crossed her arms beneath the swell of her chest.

The teen snorted, pale lips tugging into a mix of sneer and smirk. "That's an understatement." Personal baggage was something Navi seemed to have in abundance, and she just kept on collecting more as time went by.

The squire kept her place on the bench, and that was enough to keep Navi where she stood. So far the woman hadn't offered her any violence or excuse to attack, and while it didn't take much to incite the ginger haired girl, she was trying not be the stereotype Order liked to believe of her and her teammates. So far she was doing.. Ok. She'd at least not attacked anyone without some form of provocation.

It wasn't easy though. She didn't know anything about the woman before her except that she was a knight, and that, sadly, was enough to have Navi dislike her.

"I think I can take of myself pretty well," she offered in retort, doing a fair job of keeping her attitude under check. "Survived thus far at least." Her lips pressed together at the introduction. "I'm Navi." Shalott hadn't expanded on her title, so Navi didn't either.

It was really hard for Navi to accept what the woman was saying as genuine, and not some mocking condescension, but she managed. Some how. "Thank you for that." It didn't sound all together grateful, but at least she was holding onto neutrality.

Which was, all things considered, surprisingly easy in this instance. Shalott looked so thoroughly dejected that Navi was having a hard time holding onto her malice, and after a moment or two she settled for stubborn dislike and crossed her arms. She wasn't doing anything instigating, she wasn't speaking foolishness, nothing. Not a damn thing the Senshi could use for fuel to start a brawl.

It was a little irritating, but since she'd never had anything close to a reasonable conversation with a Knight, her curiosity was subtly pricked, and she thought to herself, why not?

"You're correct in your assumption," she admitted, taking a seat beside the squire, but not too close. "And more then you'd think." She was talking about star gazing, and she too tipped her head back to give the sky a quick look. It was pretty out. "So what's got you so.." She fished around for a word before finally settling on one. "Despondent."

Although her ears were trained on the squire seated beside her, Navi's gaze was still directed up at the stars. She'd slouched a bit on the bech so her head could rest on the back of it, and as the seconds ticked by peacefully she found herself relaxing, albeit slowly. After a moment she folded her hands on her stomach, listening intently to what the other woman had to say.

There was a quiet, almost amused snort in agreement, and the DMC rolled her eyes to the side to eye the Squire briefly. If anyone knew how complicated cross faction relationships could be, it was Navi. Not that she was in any hurry to share any details about that, and certainly not with this Shalott.

Still, she could relate. "It's certainly not easy." A thoughtful frown slid along her lips. She was in the Squire's shoes, but not really. She didn't think her friends among the white senshi were right or wrong, merely mislead and needing a little help to find their way. And certainly they had to have conflicting feels where she and her ideals were concerned.

There were also the countless others among the side of order that insisted she was evil, and yet, nine times out of ten, it was them that threw the first punch, not her. Where she desired to talk, all they wanted to was to beat the chaos out of her. So who was truly evil?

Frowning further, Navi returned her gaze upward to the stars. "You believe what your heart tells you." That's how she operated.

Oh... Well, that did complicate things, didn't it? Navi had nothing she could say to that logic, so instead she offered only a rather useless roll of her shoulders. Loving someone from the opposite side was something she was familiar with, but having everything turn sour? Not so much. It wasn't something she liked to think about either.

Her relationship with Chaonis, however you wanted to label it, had every chance in the word of ending badly, and not even just from one of them ending it. Still, what they had was real, and there was always that chance it could work, right?

Nose wrinkling, Navi pushed the thoughts away to focus on what the Squire was saying, then promptly rolled her eyes. What was with the older Knights and feeling as though it was their duty to save her and anyone else they thought was too young, or mislead. "My normal adolescence ended when I was abducted from my room and wound up stranded on the moon with a large handful of other civilians."

Whatever calm she'd managed to maintain throughout the whole of their conversation was seeping away. "As for love." She turned on the bench so she was facing the squire. "I lost my family and all my friends when I came into my power. Everything I knew and lived I had to walk away from." Oh yes, her hackles were definitely rising now. Her role in this war, and what she'd had to give up, her life, all of it was an extremely touchy subject.

She hadn't gone looking to join up in this endless battle, it had found her, and when Ares offered her a chance to survive and hold her own she took it. Now she had meaning in her life, something to work for, so why did people want her to just drop all that and walk away? "You don't understand." The predictable words of a teen, but in this case she felt they applied nicely. "And to assume you have any idea at all what I, or any of my court is going through is very high handed."

What had started at a relatively civil conversation between opposing members of this magical war was quickly dissolving into an argument. Navi was mad. Mad at the people that called her evil because of the chaotic aura that surrounded her. Mad at those that thought they knew what was best for her without even knowing her or her situation. Hell, even she was guilty of pretending ot know what was best for people at times.

The more the Squire spoke, the quicker Navi's patience evaporated, and she was on her feet again before she even realized it.

She could have ranted on about how the White Moon was to blame for them all having been abducted in the first place, and if not for them then she wouldn't have lost everything, but it was Shalott's last point that Navi honed in on. This at least she had an answer to.

"Oh but you see, this is where you and I differ. Unlike you poor souls of the White Moon Kingdom I have a queen that is not only present, but active in her plans to better our court and strive towards a better future for us, her people." She had poked her fingers against her own chest, and there was a definite note of pride to the teens voice now. She believed in her queen and her court, she had a purpose. "Can you say as much? Where is your monarch?" The question was rhetorical, she knew damn well Serenity was gone. "We're fighting for a new life," she added quickly.

"Maybe you're on the wrong side if you can't see the purpose in yourself." Why fight at all if you didn't know what it was all for?

"If you think all we do is just for our queen, then I think you missed my final point." Dark clad arms folded. "We're building a better life. To me, that's something worth fighting for." Even now, with no clear end in sight the teen had already gained so much. She had lost her old life, but she had gained a new family, and new friends. And she wouldn't trade one for the other.

An unfriendly look was passed down to Shalott as conceded and backed out of the discussion, though in all honesty Navi was tired of arguing.

What remained clear though was that this Squire had lost her path. "As you are now, despondent and indecisive, you're no good to anyone. What's the point of even powering up if you're not going to act?" No point. She wasn't helping anyone just sitting around lost in her own unhappy thoughts. Not that Navi wanted her brand of help, but that wasn't really the point.

For a moment the DMC just stood there, staring down at the other woman as if she might say more, but as the seconds ticked by and nothing came out it became clear she'd thought better of it. This wasn't her problem, and she wasn't going to continue to let this Knight make her frustrated.

Instead she turned, walking back towards the shadows from which she'd come. Disappearing into the night before vanishing completely from Shalott's radar as she found a mirror and slipped through it.