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There were advantages to being of Mercury, Promethei supposed.

For one, for reasons he didn’t understand, Mercurians seemed to be frigid. Of all the knights he had spotted, he was the only one he had run into that had been so bundled from head to toe. Promethei was adjusting to the weather further up north here, but it was considerably colder than the weather in Texas even at this time of year. The coat was a Mercurian blessing.

When he had gotten out of the warm university building for the evening, his skin immediately prickled with chill bumps. One way to end that quickly? Becoming Promethei, of course. He found it amusing that it was being Promethei that provided him warmth. Considering the stories of Prometheus, it felt a bit on the nose. Likely a coincidence, of course, especially because there was nothing that said that about Imhotep, but it tickled him nevertheless.

Since he had powered up on this unfairly cold day anyway – how had Diryas and Elliot ever tolerated this s**t, at least Tobias understood – he figured he might as well stay that way. Considering that the Negaverse was never up to anything good, maybe he could deck them a bit better this way than as a civilian. At least, they might be less inclined to drain him to unconscious afterward. Not like he had terribly much trouble dispatching them as a civilian, it was just the completion that seemed to be lacking.

Promethei cracked his knuckles.

If an agent showed up, he’d make sure they regretted it. Maybe he could knock them out and they’d just freeze. Not his fault.

He noticed the sense of a more powerful senshi -- eternal, he thought? Not a whole lot had come up to him directly, but he had been in enough of these ******** group battles to suss it out. He figured they'd be on their way and he could continue to wander on his headed home patrol.

That was where he was mistaken.

Promethei jumped back when she ran into him, letting out a startled noise before responding with, "Watch where you're going!" that was more of a teacher instinct than anything intentional. He muttered to himself, shook his head, and stood with his back a little straighter.

Whatever she was wearing was pretty at least. Not his style--he needed more leopard print or warmth personally--but it was a good senshi look he supposed. Was she intended to be a fairy?

Nevermind--

Her eyes had been closed, and her aura hadn't even stuttered on her path to him-- "You good, or?"

Maybe he needed to tell her to go home...

"I understand the home being packed thing, honestly."

There were four of them... normally. Elliot had been so distant lately that Promethei didn't know what to do with it. The house felt a lot more empty than busy, but back when it had the full four, there were times he just wanted to get out and go back to the woods. His boy scout past yearned for that kind of adventure, that wandering--

So he respected the source, at least.

Lysithea of Unicorns. Color him surprised, those myths might have actually just come from space. As he shook her hand, he offered, "Promethei. Of Mercury. Considerably colder, considerably more tech influenced."

He pursed his lips. "My wonder seems to be a university, actually?"

Oh.

Oh.

He did not necessarily believe in predestination, at least, not in the perspective of 'running into people and it turning out he once knew them,' but he felt it more heavily now than he ever had. It was a reminder that everything he had been taught since youth had at least a new perspective on it, now. Perhaps the place they waited was actually the Cauldron, and there was an ascension out of that cycle in a nebulous point in the future.

... G-d, he missed Elliot so much he was trying to think in religion. He wasn't telling the other two that--

"You're shitting me," Promethei let out a short laugh, scratching at his chin fuzz. "Really? I know like jackshit about my past self other than the whole frozen university s**t. Tell me more?"

Like to be friends sounded like a question he'd hear in a show, but it had validity here. She knew something he didn't. And she seemed pretty nice, honestly; could be a useful resource for Imhotep, too... "Can always use more friends in this garbage. We awoke right during that whole alien arrival," he waved at the air, "nonsense."