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How long had it been? Well, the feeling in her gut that was making it feel a twisty and bad told her it had been too long since she had decided to transform again. Mithra couldn't help it though. There were the events with the Mirroverse stuff, and then that weird-a** circus event, learning her boyfriend was a Negaverse General and... well nothing it seemed.

Sure, she had moved in with him, his brother had moved out into the apartment next door, they had been living together for a while, and just... acting as normal humans. Neither of them were happy about it though. Or at least, with the way things had been going in their civilian lives. They had discussed things, made certain that they would make changes, learned that neither of them wanted children and well... perhaps they were just trying to get through day to day.

Every day though, it seemed as though the tension of what was going on around them, and the changes they could make were starting to eat at them. Up to the point where even the warmer weather was breaking their spirits.

It was driving them crazy. At near sunset she had decided that she wanted to go out for some draining. Tom let her go, even saying he might do the same thing, though with worse consequences. Neither of them felt good, and they had even discussed getting therapy as an option. Would pills really help with the intrusive thoughts though? The knowledge it wasn't going to get any better and most people seemed to act as though nothing would change, even with the obvious signs around them?

It was too much to think about, and she needed a distraction. Which was why she was at the park, hiding behind a tree while one of her wraiths gathered plenty of energy from the people lined up at the Dip n Dots that had been making a ton of money for the past two months. That was when she felt a familiar aura and couldn't help but smile. She hadn't talked to or seen one of her fellow Dark Mirror Senshi in months. It would be good to catch up.

Mithra kept an eye out and noticed a wraith join hers. Luckily hers was almost done, so the other would have plenty for itself to collect. But she didn't have to keep an eye on them and instead took a look around. She thought she saw some movement, at least movement that would indicate something larger than a squirrel or rabbit, and moved into the trees a bit more, away from all of the late night sweet seekers.

When she got closer, she thought she saw some gold glinting in the small amount of light that was coming through and sent out a wave. "It's all right, I'm pretty sure they're all too focused on getting their ice cream to care about us. Or at least even look in this direction. As long as we aren't too loud." She made sure that she wasn't talking in her usual "outdoor" voice, and even if one of those civilians decided to come over and investigate, they could just be knocked out.

Mithra felt herself frowning. "Has it really been that long?" Now she felt even more guilty. Guilty that she hadn't been helping her fellow senshi and had just been out and about doing her normal civilian life things. "Kuichi. I remember. You look good though." She said, a bit jealous of his outfit. Still, hers suited her needs and she was fine with it. "No, I was just a Super. I... haven't done too much as an eternal."

She waved her hand at the wraith comment however. "Sharing is caring." Grinning she took a look at both of the wraiths, and saw that hers was now coming over, quite a bit larger than it had been. "Besides, it's not like I can claim ownership of a line of ice-cream pursuers. And there's enough energy to go around." She had to keep herself from adding "and if there isn't, who cares?". Dark thoughts such as those had been spending their time in her mind lately.

"It is a nice night out though. And I'm glad that I'm able to see one of my fellow Dark Mirror again. I know I haven't done much, but I hope that I haven't made it look like I was deserting you all or something." Guilt was another emotion that had taken up residence within her brain to the point of almost becoming overbearing. She had often thought about staying as a Dark Mirror for days at a time just to try to make up for it.

Mithra was about to feel better about not having "missed" anything while she was gone, since Kiuchi had said that there hadn't been anything since the "last event". She wasn't sure which one Kiuchi was referring too, but hopefully it meant that there hadn't been a whole lot.

Until he mentioned what Acubens had done to another's pen, and she couldn't help but let out a small gasp. What the heck could have have happened that would cause Acuben's to do... that?! She had heard that one could be turned to an Order senshi, but even with that, she didn't think that snapping another's pen would do it. Something really bad mush have happened, and she wouldn't push Kiuchi to talk about it. She could only nod her head. "I'll make sure to ask her then." She wouldn't ask Kiuchi to talk about it. The poor eternal seemed as if he would break down if she did.

"It's... good that we got some new ones though." They were so small, they needed all of the new blood that they could get. "I'd love to meet them sometime. Though maybe we could have some sort of gathering in the Mirrorverse. I... haven't really been there much myself, but I hope that it's been progressing a bit. I would love if we had some sort of meeting room there." It would be nice for gatherings at least. And then people could bring food too!

"A Negaverse officer huh..." It would be something she needed to ask Tom about. Of course, he might not have known either. It didn't seem like any faction liked to exchange needed information that much. It was a very valuable resource, and she assumed that perhaps if some information was spread around too much, it could cause trouble. But if she could get the information from Acubens, she might be able to tell him. Not that it would change his mind on anything, but it would be good to know at least.

"It is nice to be so close-knit. And even I don't want us to get too large but... well, hopefully we wouldn't have to keep having so many join just to keep our numbers up. I know that not everyone is very active, myself included, but at some point we may have to grow quite large if we don't have enough power." Of course, she would always be on call if she was needed, but that didn't mean that her strength would make much of a difference if it was 10 vs. 100 instead of 9 vs. 100.

Mithra grinned. If there was one thing that she was always complaining about, it was the useless abandoned buildings littered throughout the city. For some reason people just wanted to let them sit there and rot rather than tearing them down and making it a green spot or actually fixing it. It was rather disgusting to her actually. "That would be great! Or at least a better idea than making it from scratch in the Mirrorverse. Or we could have it in two places if we really need it. I would prefer having it here, but in case it were destroyed/discovered, having another spot would be good to." This talk was good. They were getting ideas and she wanted to go and propose them.

"And perhaps more regular meetings would be good, even if not many can come. We can exchange ideas, say what's happened in the past month if not everyone knows, etc. And if others do come back, then we can catch them up on whatever you know?" Her wraith had finally come back and she barely turned to look at it to dismiss it.

She put her fist in the air, a smile on her face. "It's so good to talk like this Kiuchi. I haven't felt this good in a long time. I think I was just missing you guys too much. I mean, there's a lot to do as a civilian, but it's also pretty depressing. Talking with you, even if they're just ideas, I at least feel like we can make a difference you know?" She moved her fist, lowering it and slightly bending her elbow, and turned to hold her fist in front of Kiuchi. "You know what I'm feeling?" She said as she left her fist out for a "fist-bump". Even if the other Dark Mirror declined, she wouldn't mind.

Mithra didn't say anything to the close knit part. Of course she agreed with him that it had it's perks but... it also felt as though they weren't moving. At all. She wasn't sure if a larger organization would help with that, but perhaps something might happen if they had more who wanted to actually do something instead of sitting around waiting for something to happen to them.

"That sounds awesome. I mean, I don't know anything about construction work, but it would be way too cool if we go to decorate our own rooms and such, if there were individual ones or we could share, or just build it together. If we do it as a team and as powered, we could probably do a lot more work than normal human construction workers, and without all of the heavy equipment also." This was something that she would need to note down. "If you want, maybe the next time we have a meeting I can bring it up? Or if we want to communicate in some other way we can float the idea out to everyone else and see what they think? I think it would be awesome though."

She nodded at the mention of Remarque. "He would be good. I haven't talked to him in a while either. I should though. I don't think he's seen me since I've turned eternal either. That's going to be a surprised." She said, chuckling. She was excited that Kiuchi had returned the fist bump. It meant that he was just as excited as she was, though he showed it in a different way. "Thank you. And yes, I do. The Dark Mirror, aside from my boyfriend and his family, are really the only family I have." Sure, her mother and sister were alive, but she cut contact with them a while ago. And she would make sure that she never heard from them again if possible.

She couldn't help but giggle. "Seems you've thought about this for some time. I don't blame you though. It would be a great idea to have a place of our even. Even the Mirrorverse rejects us eventually if we stay too long inside of it." She couldn't quite understand it. They were Dark Mirror Senshi. Why were they still rejected? From what she could tell, while there were risks staying in the Negaverse for too long, they weren't booted out eventually as though they had overstayed their welcome.

"I wouldn't mind having a large bath. It's what Tom had to do in his first year of college. He said it wasn't that big of a deal. Though... when you want to do more private there's that. But we could just make a more private area in there..." Maybe a separate room or something. At any rate, they would need to have a professional look at all of this. "I do like it though. A library would be amazing. And we might be able to get the money, but we would have to bring the idea up first." When Remarque was mentioned she wanted to roll her eyes, not in a bad way, but she still thought of his outfit as a bit ridiculous and it made her want to laugh, lightly though. It wasn't that funny with the eyeballs and stuff. "We can send him a message then, see if he wouldn't be willing to get a meeting together for it and other things. Ever since the Mirrorverse thing we really haven't done anything as a group." They tried certainly, but nothing had come to fruit it seemed.

She nodded. "I'm glad for you. I've never really liked the idea of a large family, and I'm still not sure if I've been fully accepted into the Dark Mirror Court." Which was a bit silly considering she was eternal, but there had been those that had made her feel... not so welcome. As though she were still a stranger and was just trying to understand the group. She rubbed her right arm a bit before turning back to Kiuchi. It was starting to get a bit late. "You want to grab some coffee or something, we can talk more there or we can send some messages to each other later discussing bringing the warehouse idea to Remarque."

"It would be hard, but it would be so worth it to. Even if we don't have the funds right now, I think it should still be brought up. It won't go anywhere if we keep it to ourselves." Perhaps she could convince Arseno to give them some money or give them suggestions as to who they could hit up for the money. She grinned at Kiuchi, a confident look on her face. "Nothing will get done if we just talk about it! I'm sure we'll come up with something." This was something that they could do. That could be done. Unlike other things such as trying to save elephants in Africa or something and the only way was to throw money at it and try to create laws that were constantly being repealed. They could at least give this a genuine try and if in the end they couldn't do it, they still did something which would be a lot better than nothing!

"A meeting would be good. We need to decide on where to go next to. So far all I know is we're supposed to be working on our space in the Mirrorverse, but since we can't stay there for too long, I don't think it's feasible. It may as well just be used for storage or just to get away for a couple of hours." It made her very jealous of what they could do in the Negaverse. She knew that Arseno went there for days if not weeks at a time at some points. Why were they not able to do the same? It's as though they were still being rejected.

"All right sounds good. We should probably power down first but I know a place near here that should serve just about everything a cafe usually has. So if coffee isn't your think there should be options." She replied, powering down herself and waiting for Kiuchi to do the same. "And, thank you. I'm glad I know there's at least one other DMC that I can call a friend and family."