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When the fight on Fang had finished and everybody was either circling around the world's senshi, or collecting back into groups, checking one another for wounds of one sorts of another, Halle noted that Lisse stayed with his group of friends. It definitely wasn't time to try and pull him away for a talk.

When Halle's eyes slid over to the other person of interest at the moment, he saw that she was checking wounds and administering what he assumed was healing magic. Activity that was definitely more immediately important. He could wait, and so he did, idly flipping the coin Fang had given out between his knuckles. Clumsily at first, but with a bit of skill by the time Lysithea looked about done.

"Hey, ma'am. Can we have a talk? Once we're back down on Earth?" He wanted them to sit down somewhere quiet and less recently a battlefield.

Taking i up to Lysithea? Halle's expression froze and then his eyes widened. He'd forgotten, in a way, that there was a whole world of Lysithea outside its Wonders. "Uh, yeah! That'd be great, actually." To see more of the world, and the safety of talking in space would probably let them talk without interruption.

"Now is good, I've uh...wanted to talk to you for awhile."

The juxtaposition of princess palace with the simple campsite had Halle pausing again, his brain trying to encompass both things being reality. Regal power and...the lady sitting down in a regular old camp chair. Shaking his head slightly to clear it, he took a seat across from her.

"I'm Halle. My brother, Lisse, is also a Lysithea squire. My cousin, Almere, is a page." Just so she knew she was dealing with a whole family of her knights. Who knew if any other Everleighs would awaken once they crossed the city limits. God forbid their mom decide to try and throw a family reunion in Destiny City.

"We awakened last autumn, not long after moving to the city, and a lot's happened since then. There was a helpful Jupiter squire who filled us in as much as she could, but..." Halle took his hat off and ran his fingers through his hair, "There really hasn't been much guidance. A Mauvian upgraded my ring. There's been a few memories of the past. The Code helped once, after things were going wrong for all knights. But other than that..."

He sighed, "We...I don't know who you are to us. What do we expect from you, what you expect from us. I had to swear an oath to you." Or at least to the world Lysithea, but in the end, wasn't that the same thing?

"Well, I did have to make an oath to Lysithea, whether you wanted it or not." For a moment, Halle sounded just plain tired, not to mention bitter. He'd been hoping that, well...

Even if he didn't want some authority figure forced on him, it was better to have an authority to look to than, nothing. Continuing uncertainty. He rubbed his face, "Is that all we can expect from one another? Maybe knowing that the other exists and maybe attending social events?"

Halle dropped his hand to look at her, "There's nothing else you want from us? No goals?" His eyes flickered around the campsite, a necessity since her own palace here sounded just as unlivable as a new page's Wonder. Maybe princesses were just as aimless as any of them were.

It felt so frustrating, and most of that feeling had simply been lingering from that first night. And building every night after that. The Code...could offer some information and guidance, but it seemed like only in some strange emergency situations. His wonder provided similar, but only sporadically and only in regards to taking care of it and remembering what used to be.

In the here and now, on Earth, there was...nothing. To him, learn as we go, sounded a lot like, React to whatever Chaos is doing. Halle shook his head, dismissing that thought for later. There was no leadership and no one even remotely responsible for knights, then. So be it. Whatever. He didn't know why senshi royalty even existed, but it seemed like she didn't either. That was probably a lot more frustrating for her.

"Sorry," he finally responded, feeling a little bad for his attitude but not enough to pretend like he was happy to hear any of this. "I didn't know corruption erased memories." Another reason for that so be completely terrifying. Would knowing that make Lisse more cautious about the Negaverse?

"This really sucks," he sighed. "I just want to know how to plan for my...well, life, with this." Because there were visits to space to revive his wonder, and there were battles to clear chaos, but there was also planning for college. Preparing to eventually live on his own. Getting a job. And it's not like he could completely separate those things from his existence as a knight, because it was still him. Still his time. Still his life.

In other words, Cosmos was a flake who wouldn't give straight answers. Well, if he met her, he'd still ask, but it wasn't something to count on. Sighing a again, he tried not to snap, but did manage to sound even unhappier. "I'm not going to quit! I swore an oath. I don't break my promises and if I was the sort of person to quit, I wouldn't be upset right now. I wouldn't be taking this seriously."

Running a hand through his hair and snatching his hat off in a huff, Halle added, "This is important, and I'm committed. It'd just be great to know what that meant." He did relax after a moment, though, deflating a bit in front of her. "You can get rid of corruption? That's...that's really great." The boy offered her a weak smile, "I've been worried about too, it's good there's a cure." Especially if Lisse kept attacking generals at will.

"I should uh...introduce my brother and cousin to you. Almere will go crazy over it." He paused and then added, "They're a lot better than me at being...nice. And fun." Halle's smile turned a bit wry, but it was true.

"I'm fifteen years old and recruited into a life and death situation, along with the family that I love and worry about. There's not a lot of information and almost no guidance, I'm apparently supposed to just figure it out by myself and sometimes maybe a talking cat will pass by and help. And like, that's the situation for everybody, apparently! I'd hoped that princesses would be different, but you aren't and that's not your fault. But yeah, the situation is upsetting. Is there anything wrong with being upset?"

He inhaled deeply to go on and then just exhaled gustily.

"I used to be really, really mad at you and the Code, for just leaving us out in the dark to fumble around with new powers and new monsters, to just try and survive. But that's not the case so, I'm not gonna be mad at you anymore. I saw you healing people on Fang, and if you can undo corruption, then that's...one less nightmare to wake me up at night. You're not useless. But I'm still left fumbling around in the dark, hoping I don't trip over my brother's corpse."

"Yeah it's...I heard that maybe, it can be livable? I like it a lot, even without that and the..." he gestured to the glowing marks. "But it'd be great if we could all have that protection, and knowing that I wouldn't have to fight my family from one side or the other." At the very least, it was something to be proactive about, even if the details of how were hazy.

He nodded at her advice, "I've seen it when we fight alongside each other. A lot more can be done together. And it does feel, right, I guess."

If he were to be completely, embarrassingly honest here, he'd been hoping for some kind of parental or at least educational authority from Lysithea. Somebody to say do this and don't do that, to give some kind of structure to what it meant to be a knight. It really wasn't fair to her, and being disappointed didn't mean he shouldn't be grateful for what she was and could be: somebody to fight alongside.

"Thanks, and uhm, if you need help..." He took out a scrap of notebook paper and in a moment of almost uncharacteristic trust, he write down his civilian name and phone number. "I like to help. Where I can."