Arian was feeling quietly nostalgic. It was hard to believe that he’d been in Destiny City for over a year – actually it was almost a year and a half come to think about it. A lot had happened in that time – new school, new country and that was without counting finding out from a talking cat that he had a powered alter-ego that he could turn into by waving an oversized ornate pen, finding out that the city considered him and people like him terrorists and getting caught up in the middle of some sort of secret war.

After dropping off his entry to the Garden’s Halloween contest – he’d finally settled on making a bat pendant using a mixture of copper wire a teardrop amethyst and some beads that he’d picked up on an earlier visit to the Garden – Arian had found himself walking by the park.

The park held quite a few memories for Arian too – his powered alter-ego Athene had spent a fair deal of time there when he’d been stuck as a cat during last year’s Thanksgiving period, particularly in the Kiddy playground once the little cat-tail pulling terrors had gone home for the day and Saffy had decided to ground him ‘forever’ when he he’d been unable to explain where he’d been, although she’d finally relented around the New Year.

He’d found himself lingering near the climbing frame, where he’d ended up sleeping and looking at the slide where the little senshi-turned-kitten had been playing. His cousin had told him that they were spending Thanksgiving at her parents place this year and implicit in the unspoken words had been the fact that she hoped that they would actually manage to turn up this year.

Eventually the nippy weather and the slight spatter of drizzle had driven Arian to abandon the park and head for home, although not even the threat of full out rain or the homework he had yet to start on had been enough to make the dark-haired teen feel like hurrying back.

His cousin was out when he finally got in, a note pinned on the fridge telling him of her whereabouts. Arian had ended up first working on his project for Crafts and then half-heartedly trying to work on some of his Science homework before giving up when he realised that he’d left the exercise book with the other half of the assignment books back at school. There was Maths catch up work, but given his half-heartedness with the Science Arian hadn’t seen the point in even bothering to dig out the books. Instead the dark-haired teen had grabbed jacket and some of the cinnamon cookies from the biscuit jar. His cousin wouldn’t be back until some point tomorrow and who knew – maybe he’d encounter a certain silvery-furred cat while out on patrol.

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