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Patrolling was something that didn't come easily to a man like Albert. He was the intelligent sort, yes, but the type to study a situation from a distance and make and adjust plans. He was not the sort to go out and physically do things, despite what those now fading-with-time nightmares of a dark future tried to tell him.

Still, he needed to at least try to take a more active role, and if patrolling would help him be better able to protect and shelter his daughter - especially now that she was more directly caught up in this terrible fight - then he would do it. Besides, with any luck he could find the cat that had dared awaken his precious baby and hand her over to an animal shelter.

Or a rescue - the sort that would feed the fat little thing diet kibble. She would regret endangering his Emily Wren further by putting her on the front lines!

Maybe he was being a little ridiculous, plotting diabolical revenge against a cat, albeit a talking, magical one. But that was the sort of person he was, and Kells was nothing if not confident in his own identity. That being said, this patrol was peaceful thus far but very, very boring.

A good thing, perhaps, but all it meant to Kells was that trouble was active somewhere else instead of here, where he could deal with it.

Kells wasn't particularly experienced himself, but he did know enough to recognize that the approaching aura was... not quite the same thing as his, and so he was somewhat more prepared for to greet the senshi that called out to him than she apparently was to see him.

Perhaps she was new at this, then?

"Ah! Hello, my dear, and good evening to you. May I have the pleasure of your name - and perhaps your company? It's far safer to travel - or, as I suspect in both our cases, patrol - as a pair, rather than alone."

"Would that I could say I have years of experience under my belt with which to guide you," Kells said, and took her hand in his. "But sadly, I have less than a year, and much of that spent in ignorance of what, precisely, I needed to be doing. I am called Kells. It's a pleasure to meet you, Hyakutake."

Bringing her hand to his mouth, he brushed his lips over her knuckles gently, then released it. "If this patrol remains as peaceful as it has been for me thus far, perhaps you would agree to a ... practice session, of sorts. I'm sure we could both use the preparation, and I've seen the way senshi fight - it's very different from my own capabilities. If you're as new as you say, you could use the exposure to other styles."

That, and it would give him an excuse to spend more time with this very pretty young lady.

Not that this was any sort of motive to his actions tonight.

Not at all.

"As a matter of fact," Kells said, smiling as he pulled his 'weapon' out to show the young lady. "Supposedly this is supposed to be of use to me, somehow, but I have yet to divine just what that use is. Unless you count hitting things over the head with it, in which case it seems to do just as well as any other book."

"As to what I am... well, I'm a knight - although I technically won't reach that specific title until I'm more experienced, I should think..." He paused and coughed, a little awkwardness creeping into his voice and a blush onto his face. "I suppose I could be called a Page, but I'm a bit past the age bracket for that traditional ranking..."

A pity, wasn't it, that he was such a late bloomer?

"Perhaps it will," Kells said with a quiet chuckle. "But I doubt very much that it will be tonight. As to tradition, I'm certain there is some kind of tradition involved in out current roles, but whatever it once was is probably long-forgotten, or perhaps waiting to be invented."

With a slight nod, he began moving in the direction she had indicated. "I wonder if there's some sort of information source we could consult on this... whatever it is we're caught up in. A war, certainly, but what sort of war? Good and evil, order and chaos... it's all well and good to say that, but wars are fought by people, and people are rarely so simple."

He wanted - no, needed to find out more. To work out what was really going on here. It was the first step to actually being able to do something about it.

"True enough, but that doesn't mean that waiting is always the best option," Kells pointed out, turning to offer the pretty senshi a smile as they walked. "Sometimes a little initiative can provide more payoff in the long run than those who are content to wait may ever dream of." Something about this conversation, how philosophical it was... it was vaguely familiar, he supposed.

Probably just déjà vu, that.

"Yes," he agreed, then set his jaw. "But the monsters are the milder foe. The worse enemies are those who control the monsters - or rather, the monsters in the shape of men. I'm not usually one to jump to that sort of view of fellow humans... but those who attack a party with children, who kidnap and torture young ones and adults alike? They deserve no other title."

If Hyakutake hadn't heard about that yet.... well, she certainly would now.

"New Years'," Kells said grimly. "You may remember there being a very... messy situation at a public ball? It..." He shook his head and swallowed. "It wasn't an innocent public event - it was a trap. And considering the way the night turned out, I think it was specifically to take whatever knights and senshi they could."

He grimaced, glancing at Hyakutake out of the corner of his eye to gauge her reaction to his words. "They had to weaken everyone first, of course, and so they did. I never quite worked out how, they did, but there were children in attendance, too. I can only imagine how they were affected, the poor little ones..."

"Unfortunately, I think it was a rather large-scale attack," Kells said, frowning. "Meaning more than one culprit, and quite a lot of teeth to punch out." He paused, then shrugged slightly. "Though I suppose that means it's a good thing there will be at least two of us doing so, doesn't it?"