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There were a lot of times that Caliban found himself happy that he had his parkour skills. They often helped him to catch up to whatever or whomever he was going after. If it was in the alleyways he would use his skills to maneuver the sides of the buildings, though it would probably just be easier to jump from roof to roof, but when one is in the middle of an adrenaline rush, the brain doesn't always think of the most practical things.

And that's where he found himself tonight, running after another youma. Or at least he thought it was. The aura matched one, but as of yet he had been unable to even catch up to it it was so fast. Luckily that meant it also didn't have time to go after any targets, but Caliban wanted to get rid of it anyway in case it killed more people.

What he wasn't expecting as he rounded the next corner, jumping from the opposite building to launch himself a bit around the corner, was running into something somewhat soft and something that didn't smell like trash. Unfortunately for him that something was a someone and he was afraid that he had just hurt someone very badly. "****." He cursed as he tried as quickly as he could to get himself up.

Caliban cursed a bit more to himself as he tried to get off of the page as quickly as possible without hurting either of them further. Really, this was the second time this kind of thing happened, though before it was with a little kid, what was with him?!

Looking at the page beneath him, he saw that it was a female with pale blue eyes and white hair. He was stunned for a second before his brain finally caught up with him and he could finally understand what she was saying.

"Sorry! I was too focused on hunting that youma..." He replied, trying to sense it's aura, but unfortunately, even for his recently advanced senses of detecting aura he could not longer feel it. "****." He silently cursed to himself. "The youma's gone unfortunately. We could still try to tail it but... I don't think we would get too hard." He said as he pushed himself up, feeling a bit sore in his shoulder now. He slowly got up, now that the youma wasn't near and turned to offer her his hand. "I'm sorry, sometimes my mind just creates a tunnel vision on whatever the target is and I don't notice much else." He said, hoping that he might placate her a bit. He still felt bad though considering it was his fault.

Caliban smiled at her, glad that she wasn't angry at him. Well, at least he had found someone who did some of the same stuff he did, head-first wise. He looked at her shoes when she mentioned them and he did have to agree that perhaps sandals weren't the best when it came to running. "It's weird what some of our powered outfits are. I wish I could choose what I wore sometimes you know?" He had to admit, he hadn't been quite the fan of the sleveless, tie-on skin outfit that he had before, but he almost felt like this one was just as ridiculous, like he belonged in Old England or something. "At least you don't have heals on those sandals though, I'm not sure how some people run in those."

He nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I've never seen one go that fast. I didn't even see what it looked like." He just knew it was there and that he was following it. "Perhaps it was speedy, but didn't have much power to attack someone like us compared to normal civilians."

He smiled at her and shook her hand with his. "Caliban. It's nice to meet you Gorner, even if running into you wasn't the best way to do it." He replied, chuckling a bit. "What type of knight are you? I've never seen uh... well I guess 'your type'. Though the rest of your outfit does look nice."

Caliban chuckled at her complaining. He remembered when he had been complaining about his own outfit. "Well eventually you get... well more used to it. I think once one starts fighting they tend to forget unless the outfit is somehow part of their powers or something. Though... for being a, uh, page-knight, you would think that they would give you more protective armor." She did really look nice in that dress in his opinion, but he still thought everyone should be able to choose their outfit.

"Yeah, don't quite get the naming conventions. Wouldn't something like 'guardian' or 'protector' work as the name for what you guys are, and then going page, squire, knight?" Though senshi to super senshi wasn't much better. It reminded him of Dragonball Z and he wondered if eventually they would have to come up with other ranks and they would be 'Super Senshi 2'.

He nodded his head in agreement with her assessment of her outfit. "Yeah... more like you're going to a nice evening party and less doing fighting.

"Uh... well it's kind of silly looking at my outfit, but my sphere is 'sealing'." And he knew from experience he would have to clarify what was meant by sealing. "So more like you seal something like a letter or a hole or something, not actual ceilings." He replied, sighing. His outfit didn't really show what his sphere was, but he supposed he could catch enemies off guard that way.

"Well if you do flash someone, maybe it can serve as a good accidental distraction?" He chuckled a bit. "Just joking of course, but I wish the outfits we got were a bit more to our own tastes. Maybe once you become a squire you won't be uh... showing as much? More armor would be good for a knight." After all his outfit had covered up a bit more after he had become a super senshi. Or at least he had some sleeves. But considering he was a "Sailor" senshi, he didn't expect much in the way of protection.

He nodded. "Well I don't know, you make the whole outfit look pretty good, I'm sure they wouldn't mind a bit of armor with it." Not that he had ever really gone to any formal parties. "Well, the fact that everyone's outfit is a bit different helps even if they may not hint to what the sphere is." He shrugged, but was glad she suggested they patrol together. "That would be great. I mean, I really haven't patrolled with someone else before, or at least for that long, but it will be nice getting to know each other a bit more and possibly stopping some Negaverse agent."

He moved his hand to the side in a gesture that implied "after you". "If you want, you can choose the direction, I'll go wherever you want."

Caliban felt as though he could easily talk to this woman, which was strange. Sure, he had been able to talk to other knights and senshi a bit more easily than strangers, even though that's what they were most of the time, but Gorner seemed very easy to get along with and they at least had a couple of things in common, like running into others and not really like their uniforms.

"Thanks, I appreciate that. Sometimes I come out as a bit blunt for some people. Yeah, it's annoying having to carry a coat around with you sometimes. And then not being able to take off what you need to if you're too hot in the summer." So far it hadn't bothered him unless he had been powered up out in the daytime, though who knew what was in store for him with his next outfit. It could be even worse.

He shrugged. "Not all parties are fun, but I would mostly go for the food myself." If there was any. Sometimes there were parties held at dinnertime with no food for the entire night. Not fun. "Well, I think it's a little bit better if you don't start out with magic. When I started out I think I relied on my magic a bit too much... but I've had some battles and I've trained a bit with others, and I would prefer to use physical force before using any magic myself. Don't want to be too dependent on it after all. So it's good if you can hold your own in a battle!" He said, nodding and following her in the direction that she had motioned to with her head.

"All right uh... Key. If you don't mind me using that one. You can call me Derrick." He tended not to use nicknames. Too many Ricky and Dicky jokes for his taste. "It's nice to talk to you Key." He replied, smiling at her.

"I agree. I don't like it when people feel the need to keep important information behind some silly reason. If it hurts feelings but must be said, better to say it earlier than wait until it builds up." At this he sighed, slightly annoyed with himself knowing that even he didn't follow that advice. After all, his family had been wondering what he was up to this whole time since he had less time to be at home since his awakening. After all, he couldn't just go and tell them that he was out trying to defeat an otherworldly evil.

"It would be nice to have the locker though. Or some sort of device. Honestly, they seem to just awaken us and leave us to figure things out ourselves. It would be nice to have a little more help, whether that was a brochure of some sort or giving us a place to store things. Though I supposed this is something that's reflective of a lot of superhero cliches. I mean, Spiderman has to keep his clothes somewhere while he's out beating up villains, right?" Though still... He himself had pretty much just been awakened and then sent off on his own to do well... whatever he could. No wonder there were so many agents. Senshi and page's were pretty much left to their own devices once they go their powers.

He grunted a bit and rolled his eyes. "I don't understand it either. Or at least if you're only going to serve people finger-food, warn them first so they can actually get a decent meal before going to the party. Don't force them to starve as they attend. I'm not sure about you, but it gets really hard for me to concentrate on things if I'm too hungry. Though I'd rather just ditch the entire thing." He supposed he didn't have much to complain about though since the amount of times he had been invited to fancy parties was... zero. It was only a few family weddings that he had had the 'lovely' experience of standing around for hours talking to people and getting pretty much nothing to eat. When he got married, he would make sure there would be plenty of food, or warn people if it was during an eating time and there would be no food.

"Training is... hard. I've gotten some, and there have been a few who were eager to help me but... I feel like I need some actual training. Sure, those who are more experienced could help me a bit better, but I don't think I can develop the reflexes I need if I'm not doing it on a normal basis. And most of the time when I do train with others, it's random. Though if you get to train with your cousins, that could be lucky. I only have my little brother and extended family are... not really close in terms of geographical distance.

"Magic is... nice. And I'm sure you will. I feel a bit bad that you guys are thrust out into all of this without even magic, though I suppose there's a reason for it. Just like everything else we do in all of this." He replied, sighing a bit, but not at her. Just the situation.

"Well, that certainly is an interesting nickname. And it's good to meet you too, especially knowing your civilian name. Everyone seems kind of... distant when you only meet up in powered form. I mean we have our ways of communicating, but it's not enough... They need to think of a better way for senshis and knights to communicate in my own opinion." He replied, wondering if he could suggest it to... well he supposed some guardian cat somewhere. Apparently they were in charge of the tech stuff according to what he had heard.

They were starting to move a bit more towards the interior of the park, perhaps a bit slowly, and so far, even when only feeling for chaos signatures every so often, none had appeared so far. So for now, they were safe in their conversation.

Caliban grinned widely. "Well, sounds like a plan then! And I need to be better about getting into a routine anyway, so at least this way I can start with something." Parkour would have to take a bit of a back-seat anyway with the upcoming weather. Sure, fall wasn't too bad, but one really didn't want to be outside doing it in the ice and snow. That was a recipe for disaster. So if he could train with Key, he would be able to keep his reflexes and such in tip top shape without having to wait out the winter months with almost nothing to do but practice calligraphy.

"Unfortunately I don't have anything on me right now that I could give you my information but if you want to, we could power down and talk about this over coffee or something. Maybe not coffee if you don't want to stay up too late, but just go somewhere and somehow exchange our info and that way we can research where and what we want to do and then find out what's the best time for the two of us to go." He said, thinking about what would be the best for them to practice. There were so many ways to go about fighting and unless you were an expert in everything you could only really try and train for one or two... and then of course it was being able to meet up regularly...

And so, depending on her acceptance of his invitation, they would most likely go about and exchange their information and then go to bed for the night, with Caliban being especially tired since he felt a bit of stress come off of his shoulders.