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The night's energy gathering duties were done, but somehow, Chariklo didn't yet feel like powering down and going home. Instead, she was perched within the leafless branches of a tree in the park, watching the sky. So much in her life had changed in such a very short time. Normally, that didn't bother the tall senshi of seagulls, but every once in a while the enormity of her new, secret life struck her.

Had it been the weekend, she'd have abandoned Destiny City for one of her favored surfing haunts. But it wasn't, so she had to take solace from the soft, still night sky and all it's myriad, twinkling stars. One of those stars belonged to her. And who knew. Maybe someday, when Ares' dream came true, she'd get to go there and she'd never have to worry about all the awful things here on earth ever again.

With a soft sigh, Chariklo leaned back on the largest of the branches supporting her and stared up at the star filled sky, her mind following a wispy, dreamy path of its own.

Skin prickling as the familiar and unwelcome sensation of an Order aura flickered over her, Chariklo found herself wincing. She didn't want to have to fight tonight. And she wasn't much for the talking the poor, deluded enemy over stuff. Well, maybe she could stem any unpleasantness off. Without bothering to look around, she kept her eyes on the sky and simply started talking, hoping that whomever was nearby would hear and well, not be a d**k and attack unprovoked.

"Look, whoever you are, I just want a little peace tonight, okay? I'm tired of fighting and being looked down on just for existing. Ares' prefers that we just talk and try to win y'all over with words, so let's try that, okay?"

For anyone who knew her, this sudden and deep desire to simply talk calmly might have been indicitive of a deep head wound. Really though, she just wanted the closest to a night off that she could get. Besides, she'd filled her energy quota efficiently. She deserved a little break.

Finding herself grinning back at this unexpected and welcome response, Chariklo felt her shoulders relax as a small, relieved sigh escaped her lips.

"Busy enough, I suppose. How about you? Fight any 'bad guys' tonight?"

She couldn't help herself. The finger quotes slipped out since she considered herself to be the furthest thing from a bad guy. And she was meeting enough people on her side to have come to the conclusion that none of them were really bad. Goal oriented to the point of brutality, sure. But not bad.

Glancing down at the other senshi, Chariklo once again found herself amazed at the variety found in senshi uniforms.

"So, if we're gonna do this whole talkin' peaceably thing, you might as well tell me your handle. 'm Chariklo."

With a soft chuckle, Chariklo leaned forward slightly and took a really good look at the other girl.

"No crazier than some of the people on your side. So. Acid, huh? Are we talking the 'OH MY GOD I CAN TASTE COLORS' or the dissolving kind? 'Cause, no offense, but your fuku looks like it could go either way."

The dyed streaks in Cyllene's hair plus the off color lipstick struck a chord with Chariklo's own rebellious sense of fashion. Really, Cyllene was kind of cute. For an enemy. Settling back, she closed her eyes, ears alert for any unwelcome noise.

"So don't take it like a b***h. Throw rocks or something if you can't fight. Or y'know, don't go out in your magic dress."

This was all said in the friendliest possible tone. Chariklo knew she was quite capable of taking care of herself, knew that others were not so lucky. So, the idea of going out and routinely getting beat on seemed like madness to her.

"Just sayin'."

[imgleft]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/shaizic/rps/issy1.jpg[/imgleft] [imgleft]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/shaizic/rps/issy2.jpg[/imgleft] [size=11][color=#52615f][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][align=center][color=#9b9b9b]Company║NPCs galore; Location║Shadows in the castle gate; Emotion║Ninja time;[/color] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/align][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list] [color=#808080]" UP! Get up you lazy child! "[/color] [color=#40b8a6]" Mmmnooo. "[/color] [color=#808080]" Up up up! Give me those blankets. "[/color] [color=#40b8a6]" Mm mm! "[/color] [color=#808080]" Do not shake your head at me little Lady. Get out of bed now! "[/color] [color=#40b8a6]" Noooo! "[/color] With a giggle and a jump, she was out of bed and running about the room, messy hair bouncing wildly. The old women were just no match for the energetic princess. [color=#808080]" Tsk. You better stop that now... " " I'll send for the Alchemist if you don't... "[/color] Islahne stopped dead in her tracks as if someone had thrown her in a bucket of ice cold water. Slowly she stomped back to the nannies, making all the faces she could. They went to work brushing her hair, struggling to get all of her in a dress amidst the flailing arms and legs, fighting over stockings and shoes. Once she was completely dressed and presentable the nannies stood back to admire their work. [color=#808080]" There! Now wash your face, and go straight to the dining hall for breakfast! Nowhere else, you understand? "[/color] The little princess nodded frowning and quickly splashed her face and ran out the door giggling. Such was the routine, and she enjoyed every second of it. She giggled as she passed some guards and played her favorite game: Try to take the sword. After a few minutes they shooed her off and Islahne continued on down corridor after corridor. Her sister would be busy, and her brother was always with that scary Hand, so she would just have to find someone else. She reached the foyer and quickly ducked into the nearest shadows as two more guards came by. They appeared to have come from the lab, and this sparked her curiosity. Islahne waited until they were out of sight, then bolted for the stairway down to the lower levels, being careful not to make any noise or fall. It seemed to take forever to get there, and because she was watching her feet instead of where she was going, she ran right into the door. [color=#40b8a6]" Ow! Ohh.. "[/color] She clapped both hands on her mouth to stop from whispering again. Her eyes grew wide at the site of this large lock, keeping an even larger door locked. A chill ran down her spine and she spun around to run right back to the foyer, not stopping until she was safe. All sorts of images ran through her mind while she caught her breath. Giant horses, giant people, giant rats, giant anything. Nodding to herself in agreement that whatever that door kept in, was not something to play with. And that was settled, onwards to play with more guards outside. Not that the princess was allowed to be out of the castle, just that usually no one ever caught her before she was completely coated in mud and grass stains. Today would be one of those days it seemed. None of the guards or staff had seen her escape, nor did they see her sprint towards shadows and make her way to the gate. When Islahne was within a few feet of the guards guarding the gate, she knew getting their attention wouldn't be difficult. Shivering a little from not having a coat, she gathered up some small pebbles and started throwing them as far as she could away from the gate. The guards turned to look, questioning what was going on inside the gate, leaving Islahne to notice that no one would see her leave through the gate. A little scared, even more curious, she speedily crept outside the wall, into the city. Once outside, she ran to the nearest building and hid herself from sight. [color=#40b8a6]" Now what shall I do? "[/color] Only once had she ever been out of the safety of the castle wall, and that was when she was very small. Telling herself that the people were happy now and nothing bad could happen, helped ease her fear of the unknown. Islahne put on her bravest face and started walking, on a mission to make the townspeople laugh as much as the castle staff. [/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][align=center]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [color=#9b9b9b]OOC: Let's face it, the castle was selfishly keeping her locked up.[/color][/align] [/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/color][/size]

Listening intently, Chariklo wondered which god of luck had decided to find favor with her tonight. Not only had a senshi who didn't want to fight stumbled on her, but that same senshi was already thinking along the correct lines. Well, except maybe the for monsters. Chariklo was still pretty sure that actual monsters were a Bad Thing.

"Well, can't say I've ever seen their monsters," she admitted. "So I really can't say whether they're cool or not.."

And as for causes...

"I imagine that our causes might not be the same, but they do fit together. We want to save the senshi from the lies of Serenity. And someday, we'll rebuild all our ruined kingdoms in space. We all might have been born on Earth, but it's not our planet. We're perfectly content to let the Negaverse have it once the senshi have had the blinders removed."

Certainly, she couldn't call Cyllene stupid. Not when she was saving Chariklo so much effort in bringing her around.

"Honestly, you should talk to Leto or Ares. Or both. Leto could explain this stuff much better than me and Ares is even better than her. You should think about it anyway."

"Of course we do!" Chariklo snorted in a distinctly unladylike fashion. "It's stupid and a waste to prolong a war based on a little girl's infatuation. And we know that there's something left out there of the old kingdoms, so why not relocate? It's logical."

Indeed, as far as Chariklo was concerned, it was the only path that made any sense at all. Still, she could tell she was only managing to confuse Cyllene. Which, ultimately, was not at all helpful for anyone. Still.

"Leto is my friend and my Captain and Ares is our Princess. As for what we are, we're the Dark Mirror Court. We're still senshi. We're just not blinded by the lies of the Moon Kingdom."

Spurred on by a sense of mischief as well as the knowledge that she had to go home and sleep sometime, Chariklo smiled and jumped down from her tree perch, landing neatly beside Cyllene. Grinning and winking at the other senshi, Chariklo stretched out her back.

"And look at it this way, if we didn't want to save you and all the other senshi, a lot more of you would be dead by now, I think. And on that happy note, I'm heading home. See you another time, maybe?"

With that, she nodded and darted off into the night.