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Alcor had meant to go home.

But after the constant bickering with her sister, the last thing she wanted to do was pick up where the pointed comments left off. So, after work, she powered up and went in the opposite direction.

"Why couldn't Caedus just stay gone?" Raking her fingers through her long blue hair, Alcor let out an aggravated sigh. Wasn't it enough to hear about strange happenings at the reservoir or not-so-random disappearances?

Apparently not...

The whole lot of them already followed His Majesty's orders once and it nearly cost Alcor her life. While getting the piece of code from the Dark Kingdom had definitely been a win, when the floor started to crumble beneath their feet both she and Liryn nearly because casualties of this escapade.

And now they were being asked to rally with Caedus again and hope that this was the end of it? "Foolish..." shook her head in exasperation only a moment before noticing the aura of a Knight nearby.

Normally she'd avoid conversations with others but given the current circumstances, it couldn't hurt to get outside opinions. "Hello, may I join you?" She asked while maintaining a respectful distance away in case he did not wish to be bothered.

Slate-blue eyes fell upon the telescope and she wondered if he was out here because of the Aliens or if he just simply enjoyed stargazing. “Thank you,” Alcor smiled down at him, grateful that he didn’t turn her away, and ran her hands down the back of her coat before taking a seat beside him.

“It’s been an interesting few days…” an understatement entirely but she didn’t want to begin a conversation with a perfectly good stranger on a sour or bitter note. “I never expected Cadeus to return, let alone with an army and plan to end the war.” Something she still wasn’t entirely sure she agreed with because none of them knew the full ramifications of destroying chaos.

Light could not exist without dark and darkness can’t exist without light. Even if the scale leaned heavily to the side, a seed of the other will still live on which is why she was truly convinced that this mission could not succeed.

The Senshi of Cold tilted her head back and set her gaze upon a familiar star within the Ursae Major constellation and felt the pull of her homeworld calling. Yet, she remained definitely in place hoping beyond reason that the Knight she’d stumbled upon might be able to offer her wisdom or some insight to things she did not fully understand.

“No offence taken,” Alcor sighed, leaned back and looked up at the stars as he had been. “Honestly, I feel much the same way.”


“I feel like my trust was misplaced last time everyone chose to follow him. While Caedus was able to get us into the Dark Kingdom, it was Cosmos who inevitably saved us.” Eager to have them fight his war but wasn’t there in the end to save them. Then again her concern was not being killed by a scorpion youma while retrieving Liryn before the floor crumbled beneath their feet. It was a harrowing experience and one she didn’t feel inclined to repeat again.

She considered his other contemplations for a long moment.

“I’ve only been to my homeworld a few times. But if the memories I’ve gained are any indication then there was many civilizations out there at one point. How many remain,” paused and shrugged her shoulders a bit. “I have no idea.”

Despite her appearance and diminutive power signature, she had been a senshi for several years and seen many things in her surprisingly long tenure.

“Out of curiosity, have you tried stargazing on your wonder? See if you could see further out there than you can from here?”

“Your homeworld sounds lovely.” Alcor sighed, drew her knees up, and hugged them to her chest so she could rest her chin atop them. “I know my sister well enough that she would be jealous if I went without her though.” Eleonora seemed to love all things magic and wondrous. It was one of the reasons the Senshi of Heat often pressured her to return to her frozen world.

“It’s actually somewhat interesting. My world, Alcor, consists of two stars; twins in a sense. The one I belong to is a blue star made entirely of ice. I thought it was a desolate place until I learned that civilization thrived beneath the surface. You’d think that it’d be dark down there but light penetrates through the everfrost ceiling easily.” Definitely, a sight to behold but there was a purpose for it. One reason was that the winds up top could reach terrifying speeds as it whipped through massive ice shards that jut out at sharp angles.

“The other star is a red star, that one belongs to my biological twin, Eleonora. If that wasn’t enough coincidences, I think it goes without saying that if I’m the Senshi of Cold, then it would only make sense that she was the Senshi of Heat.” Given how frigid her own world was, neither was particularly brave enough to visit Ele’s homeworld yet.

“Perhaps once this whole Alien thing blows over we can make a day of it. I could take you to my world and afterward, perhaps we could sit by the fireplace at yours to warm up?” Given how things often went with other Senshi or Knights, Alcor refused to let her heart believe that such a day might come since with her own abysmal track record, this might be both the first and last time she spoke with the Polaris Knight.

Alcor seemed confused by his comment about messaging functions and a ring but let it slide assuming it was a knight thing and not something she’d have to really know. “It’s fine, I don’t mind if you know.”

With little more than a thought, she powered down. Her signature disappeared along with the ice skater uniform she wore and in its place were Sketcher shoes, a pair of black jogging pants with two blue stripes racing up the side, and a matching exercise jacket. “My name is Fiona.” she reached a hand out towards him in a formal greeting.

“You and I are the same in that regard,” not powering up recently that is. However, she suspected that might change with the Vanguard’s arrival. “I actually don’t remember when I originally awakened, it’s been that long.

The mauvian offered next to no guidance and the cost for keeping her life as a Senshi a secret was a price she truly regretted paying. Fionan had been her high school sweetheart and had she trusted him then they would have found out that he was one too. Instead, the burden had forced her to make a hard choice; to break up so as to keep him safe.

A regret she’d live with for the rest of her life no doubt but there was no repairing what had happened between them. They had tried but the ties that brought them together were effectively severed, leaving Fiona more like her sphere than she’d care to admit.

Seeing him fumble with his phone, however, did give her reason enough to smile and after a moment she pulled her own phone out of her back pocket and offered it to him in return. “Perhaps powering up wouldn’t be so daunting if someone else was there.” Kind of cruel to say since she always had Eleonora but the Senshi of Heat had a knack for attracting people of questionable alliances.

“I’m happy that I ran into you here,” and for the first time in a long while, Fiona offered a genuine smile. It had been several years since she actually talked with someone outside the small group that was composed of Athene, Liryn, and of course her sister Eleonora. She loved them all in their own unique way but it was nice to get someone else's perspective on things.

“I’m actually heading that way, but I don’t mind helping you pack up.” He might just need to instruct her on where things need to go since she really didn’t know much about telescopes or how to care for them properly.