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"I was listening," she said. So Cybele was trying to be a good senshi, hunt down the evil to protect the innocent and all that. Or something. Maybe she'd find more senshi to answer her questions, or at least talk to. She'd expected something exiting to happen to her, basically. Something dramatic. There wasn't any epic battle waiting for her, no huge youma or benevolent, shimmering warriors of light. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. After, as Senshi of the Hunt, it couldn't be too hard to do a little tracking. Right? But she had stood still for so long she had considered leaving empty handed. Then, all at once, she heard something. Footsteps. She felt, with them, the sense that something evil was nearby.

"You know, for youma and stuff." When she saw the person, she felt a bit nervous. She'd heard of the negaverse, but she wasn't expecting to actually fight a human being. At least not right away. After a quick examination, though, Cybele decided he was a senshi. Otherwise, why would a guy be wearing a tiara? So she smiled at him instead of... being really confused. Though, she was a bit. A black outfit, and wings? Maybe... black was for boys. And he was the senshi of... vultures or something.

She shrugged at his questions. "Well, you know... I'm kind of busy during the day..." Satisfied with the guy, she looked up towards the trees. Something was near, she could tell, and she didn't really want to be ambushed. "And I was just looking all over..." She turned away, looking the other direction. "I'm Sailor Cybele, by the way. And I think there's something bad near here. Can't you feel it?" She couldn't see anything. Something suddenly occurred to her. "Oh, is this your area? I can leave if you want. But... could you help me fight whatever it is, if you don't mind?" Whatever it was, it felt strong. She really didn't want to have to fight something alone. And the worst he could do was say no... Right?

Cybele was, in fact, really confused. With all the senshi stuff going on all at once, The Land of Confusion was her home for now. It usually went hand in hand with some answers, or at least ideas on what to do. But, at the moment, there didn't seem to be anything suspicious around, so she didn't know where the aura was coming from. Except the senshi, Remarque, but he was being weird, not evil... Like, what big bad person wouldn't attack a hopelessly confused senshi? So, that left Cybele with only one option.

She curtsied, giving the polite greeting of her own. "The pleasure, I assure you, is all mine." Well, that had been easy, She turned again still scouring for... "Youma? People from the negaverse? I don't really know..." She shrugged and turned back, not with all the grace or smile of before. Because she really didn't see anything evil nearby, unless..."Don't you? I mean, I know I'm new and stuff, but you could at least try to help me out like a reasonable person instead of treating me like I'm incompetent!"

Angry. That's how she wanted to sound. She didn't bother hiding the suspicion in her gaze. It was an experiment, but it also ment that Cybele was back in Confusion Land. Lovely. And going from being a sweet princess to a touchy newbie- ignoring, of course, that her response was mostly because her lack of experience was a sore topic- was probably really obvious. Oops...

Cybele’s jaw dropped. “You’re… evil?” The thought had crossed her mind, sure, but hearing it was still a shock, especially since Remarque had been being polite to her, if not kind. “But… you’re a senshi,” she pointed out, gesturing at his clothes as if it wasn’t super obvious. The pieces fell into place pretty quickly then. She shut her gaping mouth, her eyes beginning to fill with anger and wariness. She backed up a few steps, hoping that would help if she had to make a dash for it.

The anger was because one, she was starting to see the messed-up nature of her court firsthand. For example, “I don’t think you should have been the first one to tell me about how senshi can be evil. But you are…” She wasn’t really confused anymore, just mad. The other reason, two, was that if she had been trying to trick him into admitting he was evil, which had worked, sort of, he was actively toying with her. Cybele decided to keep it straightforward this time. “Are you going to attack me or something?” she demanded.

He was toying with her. That’s what Cybele told herself, anyway, but she couldn’t help feeling drawn to his words. The hint of threat in his words, though… That she was taking at face value. Her voice was just a squeak at first. “No, no please. We can just talk.” He was right, though. She doubted she could take him if it came to a fight. Still, she watched him warily. “I’m sorry about calling you evil. I just haven’t met anyone… not from the white moon court before, and I’m already confused enough. Putting people in boxes is easier, you know?”

She didn’t trust him one bit. In fact, she was scared. Keeping her voice light and normal was hard, but she was trying. “It was wrong of me to assume. I uh… hope you’ll forgive me?” Seriously- if he didn’t forgive her, she’d have to run. Fast. She didn’t think it would come to that, but those words didn’t usually have so much weight. “So, yeah, I shouldn’t make snap judgments. But… would you mind explaining to me exactly why I shouldn’t hate you?” She was baiting him, sure. Maybe some of the other senshi wouldn't approve, but she was curious. And she didn't think she'd fall into the trap of his words.

“You think my loyalty is… misplaced?” Cybele’s voice held the slightest hint of any edge. She was scared, but she wasn’t going to cower. She wasn’t going to threaten him either, since she thought Remarque still might attack her. “I’ve never heard of the princess, but she doesn’t really matter. You’re right about the White Moon Court though- it’s a mess.” The truth in his words about her court made her angry, but when he went on and on about his, he seemed to be talking around something that he wouldn't say. Honestly, he sounded like an insane, evil person from a book. But there was no way she was going to tell him that.“But the senshi do their job anyway. Destiny City’s a dangerous place, but at least people can live here. If the senshi weren’t here it would be flattened.”

She was trying her best to be reasonable, but it was hard when you thought the person you were talking to was crazy. Or maybe he wasn’t. Maybe Cybele was just misguided- she knew she was confused. But she still didn’t appreciate him insulting her court. “They protected me for a long time when I was defenseless. Now I’ve joined them. I’ll fight for them, or help them however I can. I have a purpose, and I don’t think it’s trapping me.” Of course, she just had to give a riveting speech about the White Moon. She wasn’t really insulting him or his court, but if he took it that way…

“Anyway, if you want to help me so much, why would you even think about fighting me? I haven’t done anything to you either…” She didn’t have to keep asking questions. Why couldn’t she just make herself walk away? Maybe it was the truth in Remarque’s words, or maybe it was the fact that she didn’t know where else to go.

Cybele’s eyes flicked up. Some stars peeked through the trees. They were familiar- from this distance. “Space? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Every time somebody opened their mouth, they told her something that made everything more confusing. At least this time it was just that. No violence was implied, really and she didn’t want to hit Remarque either. “This is my home. Earth.” She made wide sweeping motions with her arms, trying to point at the world. “I’m trying to protect it, to help out the people that saved me. Is that propaganda?”

This was hardly one of those World War II posters, but maybe the ideas were the same. Evil killing innocent people, check. A strong army needed to stop the evil, check. Had she been told that at all? “I was told not to trust anyone… not from the White Moon. I was told that I needed to fight.” She shrugged, turning back to the Dark Mirror Senshi. “I don’t trust you. I don’t really appreciate you accusing my court of causing the world’s problems and brainwashing me. I don’t like it, but I have no reason to believe you’re wrong. Of course, I don’t have any reason to believe you’re right either.”

Cybele had been trying to just brush Remarque’s harsh comments aside. In the end, though, he was being confusing and his words had too much truth in them for her to just disregard them. It was easier to think he was wrong and she was right. At his last comment, though, her eyes slowly widened and her expression became one of disgust. “That’s awful!” she finally said. “Why would they kidnap and kill innocent people? I would never-“ She caught herself then. She dropped the shocked expression and went back to defending her court. “I mean, we would never do something like that. You’re lying.” But her voice lacked the strength of before.

“Or… would we?” The images of her only fight floated across her mind. She remembered Tsui afterward, calling it fun. But that wasn’t all cruel, like abducting people. The youma they had fought was mindlessly destroying things, after all. “Maybe they would, but I don’t know.” Cybele shrugged. “At least you know who you’re fighting. This war is still making my head hurt. I promised the White Moon I’d help them hunt the darkness, and protect the helpless. Then you tell me they’re doing the opposite…” She stopped talking long enough to take a deep breath, then resumed. “I don’t know who to believe, but I can’t just sit at home like I’m helpless.” At least, not anymore than she already had. But he didn’t need to know that.