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Rainfall is rare in Destiny City in the winter time. There have been a few light showers between the occasional snow but it’s never been enough to be significant. In some places, it’s just enough for a thin layer of ice to cover the ground and make it a little slippery, but ultimately it’s not enough to worry about. In an inconspicuous place in town, you step into an ice filled hole and it shatters. The hole itself seems maybe three feet wide and if you’ve ever seen the hole before you know it’s only a few inches deep at most. Except, when the ice shatters, you fall, plummeting as if into a lake of frozen water. It’s pitch black beneath the ground and only pale blue lights shimmer above you. The darkness around you is never ending and you can’t make out the details of anything except the shrinking hole above you. Maybe you remember how to swim and pull yourself out, maybe you black out and feel someone else pulling you out--either way, your frozen, soaking body is pulled from the puddle. The chill is immense, but if you look at the hole after being pulled out, all you can see is the ground below. There’s no sign that what you saw was real--except for the water soaking you.
Now self-assigned to 'holiday patrol', Adorea had taken it upon herself to allow the other senshi to handle the youma in this festive period while she kept her eye out for the unfortunate souls that were subject to the machinations of festive gremlins. Having had some encounters of the paranormal kind herself already, she wasn't about to allow everyone else to experience the same thing.
Admittedly she hadn't yet come up with a plan, but she was certain of one thing and that was that she shouldn't freak anyone out. Previous 'plans' that had seen her weird people out enough for them to avoid the parks had backfired eventually as they'd simply gone elsewhere and been more vulnerable wandering around less familiar haunts. For now, she had simply settled on 'be observant' and 'resolve the issues as they appear' instead.
It wasn't an ideal solution and was most certainly more reactive than proactive, but given she couldn't predict when someone was about to be subject to one of these encounters, this was about as close as she could get to something workable.
After her last brush with the Owl she was fairly sure she had its ire enough for it to be stalking her in some form or another for now. Granted, she couldn't be sure it wasn't plaguing others as well given it's supernatural nature, but she was going to remain optimistic in regards to this one.
Thus, she had settled on the 'puddle patrol' route as opposed to the 'Fowl Patrol' route this evening.
Treating the ground very much as if it was 'lava', she'd taken to walking along walls and fence tops in order to avoid the tell-tale puddles into oblivion. She wasn't going to fall into one of those things again, she wasn't going to drown again (well, almost)... And she certainly wasn't going to be rescued by an agent of chaos again either.
No, this time she was going to help someone else like she was supposed to.
Admittedly that required that something actually happen to someone in her immediate vicinity, but until then she'd be ready.
For the time being though the jumpsuited sillouhette probably struck a bit of an unusual figure in the middle of the quiet suburb.
Wavesoul Fantasia
