Welcome to Gaia! ::

With a new team under her wings, Acubens felt a new sense of responsibility to provide for them. She had always been dedicated to collecting energy for the court as a whole, but now when she drained she knew, specifically, who would be benefiting from such actions. Kiuchi, she would whisper as purple orbs flickered out of this plane of existence and into the next. Crocus. Mimistrobel. Each orb had a purpose now. Each of her friends would draw from the pot which Acubens had contributed to. She would help them thrive. The thought filled Acubens with purpose as she moved through the night, filling the black mirror with energy for her family.

The word felt more sincere now.

True, before she had Lesath and Remarque but... they had since begun their own true family. Acubens had to leave and forge her own... and she had succeeded. More so than she ever had before her corruption. God that word. Corruption sounded so evil. Like something putrid had entered her soul and sunk inky black talons into her flesh. Corruption meant that she should feel like she was rotting from the inside out but... that was how she had felt before. Now, as her fuku folded her in its comfortable embracing, steering her onward and upward, she wondered how something that brought her such peace could be bad.

Acubens' wondering was cut short by a familiar feeling. Something new and untested pulled at her senses. A fledgling of her court. Energy draining would have to wait... she had to make sure that the new senshi was cared for.

Following the pull the the aura to the park, Acubens made sure to make herself presentable. No use approaching a new initiate looking filthy. She dusted the dirt and soot from her fuku and fixed her wild curls before even thinking about approaching, and when she did, she took a moment to take in the new senshi. He was swinging... something... around. Had his sphere come with a weapon? Acubens had never heard of such a thing before... but that didn't mean that it couldn't happen.

"You're very talented," she remarked as she approached, certain that he had felt her coming. Even if he hadn't been trained to search, senshi senses instinctively picked up another's aura. Like a sweet smell or a pleasant sound... if you were on the same side.

He wasn't as skittish as some new senshi tended to be. Good. That might have been because he had a foothold in the Court in some form or another... even better. Even if it wasn't her, Acubens was pleased that he might have had someone to rely on in the Court. That was, she had always said, what set them apart from the White Moon and the Negaverse. They functioned as a unit. Not as splintered teams working asynchronously. There was a central goal. A shared purpose.

"A plan is integral to everything we do," she agreed as Storm explained himself, even though he didn't have to. Acubens knew all to well the feeling of things being simpler in this form. For her, it was the power that flowed through her as Sailor Acubens. It made her feel... more sure of herself.
If she was this powerful for a few hours, why could so not be so powerful in the rest of her life?

"Acubens," she answered, offering her hand in greeting. "Of Velociraptors. I make it my business to get to know as many senshi in the Court as I can, Storm. It's a pleasure to meet you!"