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I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it! She held her breath, bit her lip, closed her eyes... didn't say the words. Oh god damnit, just power up already. The longer she stood in this nasty-a** alley gripping her henshin pen like an idiot the more her shoes were going to smell like garbage. Lene just couldn't trust whatever strange magic stole away and returned her normal civilian clothes to dry clean them as well. But it had been such a long time and somehow that made the words seem very hard to say.

15 minutes and an embarrassing alley-cat-induced-heart-attack later she'd been successfully startled into powering up and was on the rooftops trying to regain her composure. It was nostalgic, really. Even with the cold winter wind. It had been so long since the last time she dared utter 'Euanthe Power, Make-Up' and donned the fateful fuku that the whole Senshi... thing that had started last summer seemed almost like a past life. Thankfully the few lessons she'd learned hadn't faded from her mind in the months since then. Nonetheless, Euanthe fought against an overwhelming anxiety that had started bubbling up in her stomach. What if she encountered a youma tonight? Or something - someone - worse? A support senshi who'd never had much training to begin with was in bad shape already, but add in a couple months of neglecting one's duties...

Euanthe braced herself against the frigid air and started walking forward, picking her way across various platforms while she kept her eyes keenly searching for any sign of strange happenings. Her movements were rigid with the nervousness she was trying to suppress. So what if she came across some bad guys? That's what she was here for. If she did meet any (god, she hoped not) she'd deal with it (by running away, right?). Anyway, maybe she wouldn't.

After all, she'd been out on her own tons of times (okay, not tons of times) in the past and often found nothing at all. What, aside from bad luck, could possibly make tonight different?

"Oh! Um, hello." Lesath's sudden entrance and the strange aura that accompanied her were a bit startling. Euanthe took a couple steps back. Something about the way she'd dropped down all confidence and nonchalance felt a little like confrontation. Not that Euanthe was going to be a stickler for manners or anything, but usually people with good intentions didn't surprise you like that. And Lesath's black outfit... Euanthe had met only with the Negaverse and White Moon so far and clearly this girl wasn't either, it was confusing to say the least.

"Ye-es," said Euanthe, the word broken into two hesitant halves. "It's a little cold, though." She'd halted as soon as the other girl showed up, unwilling to get much closer. Something in her gut instinct was telling her to proceed with caution here. The way she was eying Lesath with that mixture of suspicion and curiosity wasn't exactly polite, but then again the Dark Mirror Senshi had probably encountered worse than Euanthe.

Well, if she'd learned anything at all in her time as a Senshi, it was that there wasn't much point in beating around the bush. There were friends and there were enemies and she'd rather know who was who right off the bat. Drawing in a breath and straightening her spine Euanthe said, with far less confidence than she'd wanted, "your fuku... it's black. Why is that?"