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The meeting had been once, a super sailor coming to his 'rescue' as a regular scout to offer advice and naproxen. It had been a strange, but pleasant enough evening- one of the two people he'd seen carrying bags of needful things. That had been a lesson he'd well taken, though not every night. Coats and the occasional bag for carrying had been adopted for not only himself, but had become a part of the Idea, in a way.

Has it been so very long? That I was a basic senshi when she found me... "My name is Irene. Super Sailor Irene, of Peace."

Surely Peace would find some value in the idea. If not to participate herself, in at least spreading the word. Predicting what any individual team or scout would think or do was a moot and maddening task. But Irene specifically had spoken of listening to others, even when not agreeing with them. She'd spoke of wanting to support the spread of knowledge at least so far as the benefits of teams. It made her an excellent candidate for some of the branches of his idea. His musings came to a pause, thinking back as he typed a message to her. Inwardly, he scowled, though his face remained a stone-impassive.

She spoke of introducing me to Iris, of all people. Called her 'helpful'. I couldn't disagree more. Well. One bad apple need not spoil the barrel, and if Iris ends up coming....it is no different than any other of the 'older' senshi that have been fractious and unable to unite. She will be one difficult bird among many in our forest.

The nigh-month straight of nightmares meant waiting here or there wasn't problematic. He was exhausted under his normal schedule often enough- the robbing of the few hours of any day he normally slept of restful repose was crippling. Standing around waiting in a garden at least meant there was no enemy bearing down on him. It meant no immediate need of sharpness of mind to relay information, either, even if that may be the end need.

When he head and felt an approach, Thraen's mind came back from the visions of the column of blossoming black. His muscle protested slightly life and movement from their perfect stillness before as he shifted from leaning against the trunk of a tree towards the walking path to meet the comer-

"Irene, this way. " She was sticking to the paths, which was good for finding others if not for converse. Not that the tree he'd been at was far off the path. He looked her over for like signs of haunted sleep. Or anything unexpected and new. "I hadn't expected to prompt a reply, but I'm glad of it. With things as they are, a need for a support system seems all the more urgent- people are going to have trouble in life and on patrol if they're strung out without rest. "

"Your team is well?"

'Wonderful' is a kind descriptor. Not one I would have aesthetically chosen...but kind. Planty, green, botanical...I smell like a high end perfume boutique. He led back to the more secluded area near the tree he'd been leaning on with swift strides. The congratulatory notes were confusing- for being alive or for...being something? He didn't follow. Which was more fault of his own preoccupation, since it was a really normal conversational progression.

"Are you...not having the nightmares? Every time you sleep deep enough to dream, whatever you dream, all ending the same in all living things petrified as stone and ash in terror, colourless, as a column-pillar of growing black consumes the city?"

"Every sleep it comes. I've met a couple to whom it has come, no relation between us to explain it. I haven't found one of the enemy to see if they suffer the same. But it reeks of their work, like the amorphous black tentacles that grasped and tangled people at Fate last year, just grown huge and beyond scope of any single senshi power. To come so oft and nigh on a month in succession is no dream. It is affliction or it is providence.
But the need for some connection between us all is borne more that restless, sleepless we all become more vulnerable. More likely to make mistakes. A mistake at the wrong time and alone could mean death against a sword, scythe or spear. "

It was like watching a the revolution of a carousel from horse to horse and colour to colour- Irene's emotions shifted from surprised to uncertain, fearful then uncertain, solemn and then...defensive?

Thraen blinked, his own expression not changing once for the duration.

"I ...didn't imply that you were remiss. " He quirked his head, looking at her eyes and the set of her mouth, as though he could find some tracings of the reason for guilt and anxiety on that subject in the face of justifications he'd made just for why the Watch was more important than ever. "Or did not mean to. Your life is your own, and your priorities likewise. What I think or not of them does not effect, or should not, their importance to you. Irene, your learning and college must be some great part of your motivation, and as the Harbinger of Peace, that is not a poor thing. There must be guides and gentle hearts to succor the worlds when this war is over. You asked for reasons of urgency, I only obliged on that one account."

"Starting by talking to your teammates is a good idea, even if you malign your own circle of influence. Telling a team means they can all talk to all they know. It is like Seven Degrees From Kevin Bacon- if everyone tells all they know and talks to them, then eventually everyone knows. And from what I am familiar with of your team, ********* and Iris know a great many people. At least on account of the nightmares."

"The establishing of a Black Watch, while peripherally a support system that would help, may take more convincing. If they agree to come, and to pass the word along both, it would be a great boon. Any help that could be provided- ferrying those who don't have their own Moon Pearls, and ********* if she would be willing to cover signatures at a ferry point, would also be wonderful. If that is possible, you could send word to Ash or myself. Ash is a Mauvian, and she's been working on an announcement system over all the phones. The plan of the meet up will be related that way as well...flawed in that it won't reach the knights. The knights must be word of mouth."

"July 12th is my target...it gives enough time to get the word around and organize who will be at ferry points and where they will be. Mauvians to block auras and have the moon pearls on hand to hand out to those who come...pairs situated at the ferry points so that while one ferries the other can greet comers and protect their Mauvian. "

"Do I come off like a parent?" It wasn't a new idea, really. He'd not had friends growing up often because of that impression some took away. Others assumed he was prideful, or bossy, or aloof. The exact read probably depended on the other variables of conversation and situations at the time. It wasn't necessarily bad to be authoritative if he had intentions of protecting others- the key lay in whether others believed him capable of protecting them and trusting in his judgement should their own have fallen to panic. Parents were often in that role, but it was not limited to them. I can't think of anyone that would make a worse actual parent than myself, really. If she's seem some of her own in me...Alois said the same didn't he? Aspects of his father. Am I 20 or 400 all over again.

"You have both a Moon Pearl. By all means, if you are willing to help with the Ferry system, I would be grateful. " The disk he guessed must be for the Surrounding? Like his own, gift-grant from Aquarius. Maybe Irene's came form the other woman, or from...another zodiac of some sort. If there was one for every sign of the Western Zodiac, then there must be many out there to encounter. "Spread if you are willing, by all means. "

Her reaction to the mention of knights was interesting. His own was mixed, but few and far between. She looked incensed. Thraen bowed to her, sketching it courtly as learned for madrigal dinners in Renaissance costume. It could have come off as mocking, but his tone and eyes, when he lifted them were sincere. " Brave be the one who wants and then MANAGES to anger Peace herself. I do not envy the source of your ire. But I am honored by your willingness to work through it."

" I had no siblings myself, but being an older brother is not so bad a feeling."

Pleasant, even. It left enough room for someone to spat back at him if they felt he was being unduly unfair. "So far, you've seemed thoughtful and dependable the few times I've had the pleasure to talk to you. If you're just enrolling into college, its probably I am a couple years older. I went to college early, but even for that I'll be graduating this winter semester. As long as I can keep it up with TAing and the portfolio show."

"Valhalla, Babylon, Aventine and Nysa have all seemed polite enough the one time I've met them a piece. Each unique, but that is usual. You are right about senshi sharing in the variability of manners and helpfulness. "

"Either Ash or myself will drop you a message of what ferry you will be at and with whom. Thank you, Irene. This is all a big step, and if we're all brave, and patient, it will work. "