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For all of her reluctance about space, and destiny, and the rest of that sort of thing, Cybele did like the moon. She liked the way it almost always shone in the sky, even when the rest of the stars were all covered in thin clouds or faded out by light pollution. She liked the castle on the moon that she'd seen twice. It was beautiful up there. She liked thinking of herself as White Moon, even though the term had gone out of favor in recent years. There had been a time where she'd been quite a lone wolf, and it was still easier to go that route, most nights, but it wasn't such a secret anymore that she wanted to be part of something bigger. She wanted a Court, and she thought the moon was as good a banner for it as any, dead princess or no.

Yes, like on many of the quieter nights, Cybele found herself staring at the sky as she walked through the park at a calmer pace, thinking things over, but she was brought back down to earth when she felt an aura nearby. It was Order. A senshi, and another Eternal at that. Connections, she thought as she headed over.

"Hello!" she called. "I'm coming!"

She tried to mentally flip through the list of senshi she knew, but the voice seemed different, and when she turned a corner around a leafless hedge, she found herself face to face with someone new. She smiled automatically, but as she looked the girl up and down, she smiled a little wider.

"Oh, your outfit is lovely! We match a little, don't we?"

Cybele ran a hand up one of the silver antlers that curved up from her tiara, and then she nodded down to the crisscrossed ribbons that started at her shoes.

"What's your name? I'm Cybele."

She did notice that the other senshi had been given a few more layers than she had, but rather than mentioning it, she just folded her arms to try to fend off the cold. It was worth it to be out in this lovely snow.

"Unicorns? I like that," she said. She'd always liked the magical side of all this, and a senshi of unicorns just sounded like the kind of person who would be inherently magical. The glimmering gossamer sleeves and such only added to the effect.

"I'm Senshi of the Hunt," she added, her tone conversational, if a little distracted. Lysithea was right. The night really was beautiful. This was the perfect place to get a good look at the moon. The moonlight gave both the snow and the other senshi's outfit the loveliest sort of glimmer.

Cybele had a tendency to be on edge that had worsened over the years, but just at that moment, there was something soft about the look in her eyes as she admired the moon, the way she let her shoulders drop, and her smile as she glanced back over to her new acquaintance.

Then, she could have sworn she felt eyes on her back, and all the tension came back into her body all at once. She glanced over her shoulder, eyes narrowed, before she turned back around and shook her head. "Strange," she murmured. It could have been nothing, but living with magic around for so long, she'd learned to trust that sort of instinct.

Hope. That was nice. Cybele wasn't sure that her sphere brought anything like that to mind, anything sweet, but The Hunt was unapologetically fierce in a way that some of the other spheres, and Cybele had leaned into that a long time ago. She would be a warrior. She would hunt evil.

Sometimes, that mindset left her restless. She could just feel a piercing gaze on her shoulder blades. Something was there, except when she looked around and it wasn't.

There was worry deep in Lysithea's eyes, too, but Cybele tried to smile. There was a chance it was just then being jumpy Eternals who had seen too much.

"Yes, let's go," she said, and her voice, at least, was calm. "My outfit is a tiny bit warmer these days, but I still prefer to keep moving in winter." The path they walked was pretty enough to be straight out of a snowglobe, but Cybele couldn't help checking over her shoulder. She thought she saw something move, this time. She stiffened.

"It's getting close to eight years," she said, which would have been enough to make her feel old any other time, but she was preoccupied. "I really don't trust this, Lysithea."

A flash of movement was one thing, cause for wariness but not concern. An owl that was easily five or six times the size it was supposed to be was something else. Cybele found herself staring upwards as its huge wings blocked out the better part of the moonlight.

Its eyes glinted, as did its talons.This thing could be dangerous.

She didn't ignore the tug on her arm, though. Lysethia was telling her to run. She ran. She ran as quickly as she could, keeping pace with the other senshi and kicking up quite the mess of snow behind her. These were not the right shoes for this weather, but she managed.

Still, once they'd covered a bit of distance without any claws ending up in their backs, Cybele slowed. She glanced over her shoulder again. The owl was not immediately visible, but that didn't mean much.

"I can't just leave," she said, very much in business mode as she glanced from tree to tree. "I don't know what that was, and I don't want it hurting anyone."

She wasn't sure if it was a youma, but this was Destiny City. Things were dangerous until proven otherwise.

Cybele would not have hesitated on fighting a real bird if she'd thought it was a danger to the community, but then again, she supposed there was not any proof that it was. It was just something she did not understand, and that alone made Cybele shiver.

There was also no way to fight it. The thing was long gone, and without an aura, or even footprints, Cybele couldn't actually track it.

She stared at the treetops where the creature had been for another moment, but there not actually anything to see there. The creature had seemingly vanished back into the night.

Slowly, she nodded. "All right. I'll leave, although I am sending in a report."

It might cut into her time of chatting with this sweet senshi, but at the very least, animal control needed to know about the existence of this thing. "I'll go do that now. It was nice to meet you, though," she said, even as she began to make her way, very slowly and cautiously, back towards the main part of town.

Although she did turn back for a moment with a final polite smile. "I hope to see you again, sometime."