Nekoite’s experience here largely amounted to video games, but that was beside the point.
He was learning, though, that he needed to be sneakier while out doing patrol-type things. Mandatory stealth sections in non-stealth games sucked, but getting picked on by Order senshi and Knights would probably keep happening if Nekoite shoved himself too far out in the open. They tended to object to energy-draining, even when you weren’t making a grab at anybody’s starseed. Weirdo behavior, on their part.
Still, the only way to git gud was to learn from past encounters. Thus, Nekoite was sticking to the trees while out in Ramsett Park tonight. They made such nice decoration for the park—Nekoite had to wonder if that was the city’s idea, or DCU’s (maybe, given the proximity to several campus buildings), or somebody else’s—and they made such a nice cover to hide in while taking little donations off of people who wandered by on their way to get dinner or hit the DCU library or whatever.
In his own opinion, Nekoite was doing a really good job of staying in stealth—but then he saw someone interesting a little ways off and they pulled his attention. Were they really out here tonight, cosplaying as………? Moving closer, he saw that their outfit looked shorter than he’d realized from a distance. But that didn’t dissuade him from thinking cosplay? because hey, people came up with new designs for cosplays all the time. Nekoite had gone to his last con as “What if Messmer the Impaler was a magical femboy” rather than a straight-up Messmer cosplay, so maybe that was going on here too?
“Hey, Crossbreed Priscilla?!” Nekoite called out to the person in the blue coat as if trying to greet a friend.
It was only as he got closer still that he felt the Order energy signature on the air, somewhere nearby. But, like, maybe the person in the mahou shoujo Priscilla cosplay wouldn’t be the Order person??
Shanyume
