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There was a senshi on the roof of her school. This wasn't a completely unusual situation, but the fact that it was a senshi she didn't know in the slightest was enough to mark this occasion as once both awkward and unnsettlingly close to out of Callisto's comfort zone.

Still, it wouldn't do to avoid someone patrolling on her semi-home turf (so to speak), and so Callisto, though she was near the end of her own patrol and rather tired, decided to detour on the way back to her room and instead jumped up to the roof to peer curiously at the newcomer.

"Um... hello," she offered quietly. "Is... I'm not... um, bothering you, am I?"

Please don't get mad please don't get mad - Callisto was doing better with people in general, but new faces like this one were still scary. At least for the first conversation or two.

"No," Callisto said, shrugging. "I don't own the school..." She nibbled her lip and tried to offer a smile, only partially succeeding in what she hoped was a reassuring expression.

"You're a new face here, though. I was... curious?"

How do introductions? How do people? It was much more confusing than theatre work. People were strange! (and there was no script to follow. Callisto liked having a script.)

"There really isn't any such thing, at least not among the senshi I know," Callisto said, taking the new senshi's hand and shaking it politely. "Sometimes patrols overlap. Sometimes we run them together. We're not a particularly territorial bunch."

Who - if anyone - had this Sailor Elpis been spending time around that had gotten that sort of idea into her head?

"Patrolling together's actually the better idea, anyway. It's either dead quiet which can, um, get a little lonely, or crazy enough that you want backup there with you."

"...I should introduce you to some people, then," Callisto said, offering a tiny smile. "We're not quite as bad as you'd think." Pausing, she shook her head and looked away.

"Offensive, huh? I wish mine was... I might actually be able to do more, then." Nearing graduation now and still not accomplishing much... she was doing better in her civilian life, yes, but as a senshi Callisto was fairly certain she'd flunked any and every sort of exam there might have been.

Even if in those nightmares, she hadn't been so useless...

"Just gives the people I touch a breather, so to speak," Callisto said with a sigh. "I've been powered for a few years now and I haven't... done much of anything with it." She paused, then shrugged. "Well, I did throw some tiles from the cathedral to save Tomlin - he's a cat - from a youma. I suppose that's pretty good."

"Doctors are smart, though," Callisto countered with a shrug. "I'm.... I wouldn't say I'm stupid," not any more, anyway, "But I'm not that smart. Still, if I can help at all I guess that's still something."

She hesitated for a moment, then reached out and caught the other senshi's offered hands.

"...hi?" What were they doing, exactly? She sure didn't know!

"You're... being really kind," Callisto murmured, eyes widening at the sudden - and surprising! - hug. Why was a total stranger hugging her? And - and what was her aim? Was she just trying to be nice? Had Callisto somehow said something that would make her do this? She didn't understand.... "U-um..."