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The park was quiet at this time of afternoon, the sharp n** in the autumn air enough to put most off lingering around for long.

Not so for a certain little tabby bobtail. He’d spotted a grassy knoll up above the children’s playground earlier and had decided to go have a look and see what was up there, but a glimpse of a shiny-looking something had distracted him and Liryn had put off trying to find a way up to the knoll in favour of checking out the shiny something.

It turned out to be a large button half-trodden into the ground. One side had been a plain grey but the other had some sort of coating on it that made it flash pretty colours in the autumnal light.

Not too sure what to do with it, Liryn had left it in and gone back to his original plan - seeing what was on top of the grassy knoll that he’d spotted earlier.

It had taken longer to reach the top of the knoll than Liryn had been expecting and it was only when he got there that he realised that the space was occupied in form of a blond.

Not that it bothered Liryn, person up on the knoll = source of potential strokings after all. Instead he trotted closer to the teen with the intention of trying to get a few strokes - after all he likes strokes as much as any cat.

The suddenly outburst had him pause and stare at the blond with his purplish eyes for a moment or two as he wondered what was wrong with Maths, but when no further outburst seemed forthcoming he drifted closer, little tail waving jauntily with (he hoped) a 'please stroke me' vibe.

Liryn was happy that the blond had picked up on his 'please stroke me' vibe and even happier when he scritched behind his ears. There was something about the teen that he couldn't quite put his little paws on, although he was quite happy to sit and puzzle it out, especially as the blond continued to pet him, even as he went back to the book that he seemed to be pouring over.

It was as the other was breaking off the candy that it clicked - he had the same sense about the blond as he'd had about the red-head.

The blond was breaking off what smelled like chocolate and as he passed it across Liryn nosed at it before sitting up and looking at the teen with his purplish eyes "Thank you" the two words were spoken very deliberately, his voice cheerful as he continued to speak to the blond. "It smells very nice."

The park was quiet at this time of afternoon, the time of day and the n** of the autumn air not inviting people to want to linger and with only the two of them up there on the knoll it was hard to mistake where the voice had come from.

Well actually Liryn was a mauvian, not some run of the mill garden cat. He didn’t think the blond would appreciate the distinction though - not with the way that he started glancing round the knoll as if expecting someone to suddenly jump out at him.

Instead he nibbled a bit at the treat that the other had given him, noting that it tasted as good as it had smelt.

He looked over as the blond finally stopped looking round the knoll that was empty of all but the two of them and started stuttering questions at him instead.

"Yes I really can talk" he said when it looked like the questions had come to an end, adding "And I talk like anyone else I guess." He didn’t talk to just anyone though.

He twitched his tail cheerfully, as he added. "By the way what’s your name?" It would be nice to be able the blond something other than 'the blond' as he was mentally doing.

"Well maybe not a regular cat no" Liryn conceded in between licking chocolate off his paw, purplish eyes lighting up as the blond pushed the rest of the chocolate in his direction although he made no move to start eating it, instead as the blond introduced himself he sat on his haunches so as to look up at the other better.

"Nice to meet you Glen, I'm Liryn" he said in answer to Glen's request for a name, pronouncing the word Lirin. "And I've well got something for you."

He got to his feet at that, standing at his rather unimpressive cat-height for a moment for backing up a little and pulling off a small but credible back flip, two object slipping down to land with a quiet thump over the area that he'd flipped over.

He picked up one in his mouth and trotted over the small distance between them, dropping it so that it was closer to the other, the object appearing to be some sort of over-sized pen thing "Here" he said. "They're both yours, but you should try this one first." He looked thoughtfully at Glen for a moment, nodding to himself before adding "Try picking it up and calling out "Naos Power Make-Up!" The thoughtful look turned into an expectant look as he sat and watched.

Liryn said nothing as Glen rambled on about dreams and being asleep, continuing to look at the blond with an expectant look in his purplish eyes. He knew that the other was neither dreaming or asleep even if Glen seemed not to have realised the fact.

And he was waiting to see if the other was going to use the pen - after all although Liryn could provide it, was effectively providing the other with what was his to belong with, the choice to take those first steps and henshin up was one that only Glen (hopefully soon to be Naos) could make.

The blond made the choice and soon it was no longer Glen standing there, but rather Sailor Naos, Sailor Naos of... He focused a little and concentrated and the same something that told him that Sailor Mizar was the senshi of hummingbirds told him that Naos was the senshi of liberty.

Liberty, not crafts.

He tilted his head at the new senshi, "I cannot say why you have shorts Naos" he said at last in answer to the other's question. "Outfits differ by senshi" he nudged the second object towards the blond adding cheerfully "But you do get a cell phone."

"You're Sailor Naos" Liryn had been pretty sure that he'd explained that much, although Naos' 'I don't know' comment suggested that maybe he hadn't and so he was happy enough to mention it again.

"You're the Senshi of Liberty and you will always be the Senshi of Liberty." Liryn continued. "But no one can force you to henshin up." It would always be the other's choice on whether to power up or not.

A thought occurred to him. "By the way when you want to be Glen again, all you have to do is focus on being Glen" his voice turned serious "But you should be careful about who you let know about this."

His voice turned cheerful again as he continued "And to answer your questions yes there are other senshi and yes there are other cats - although I couldn't tell you how many." He lazily waved his little stub of his tail. "You are not all the same though as you are who you are and they would be who they are."

It made sense to him - there could only be one senshi of liberty, just as there could only be one senshi of hummingbirds - whether it made sense to a Glen turned Naos was another question altogether though.

He looked up Naos, "Did you have any other questions for me?" Time had shifted whilst they were talking and it was starting to shift into late territory, but if Naos had questions then Liryn was happy to stay and try and answer them to the best of his abilities.

No questions seemed to be forthcoming however and so after a last bite of chocolate, Liryn said "I'm going to be off now, but thank you again for the chocolate." He padded away a few steps before turning "As a Senshi you can do magic and you should totally try it out sometime" for a moment he looked deep in concentration but finally he added "I think the words you need are Liberty dispelling beam, but you'll need to put some feeling behind them when you use them - because feeling's important."

He turned again calling out as he padded off "And when you meet other senshi" and he was sure that Naos would meet other senshi. "You should add their details to your cell phone so you can call them and vice-versa.

It didn't take log for Liryn to make his way back down the knoll, even with him going slowly in case Naos called out to him with another question, the blond senshi hadn't however so on reaching the bottom he trotted off.

The afternoon was shifting to evening and evening meant senshi searching time and who knew - mayhaps tonight would be the night that he finally found his senshi.