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The sign she had found this evening (and subsequently ripped off another pole) was a YIELD one.

Lyonsite was also holding it threateningly above Lovejoy's head.

The lieutenant had found that little girl while out on patrol, and it was clear the senshi hadn't been taught the proper values of hardwork and integrity. Seriously. Using magic to cheat someone of their quota! Rude. It hadn't mattered that Lyonsite had been able to get it back. What mattered was that this girl clearly lacked values.

"You know, little girl---" Lyonsite started. "I have half a mind to put you over my knee and paddle you with this sign."

"Because you're a little swindler!" Lyonsite snarled, lowering the sign a tad as a threat to whopping the girl. "And I highly doubt you learned your lesson last time!" The tall lieutenant eyed the energy she had. "What poor person did you swipe that off of, huh? Your parents clearly didn't teach you the value of doing hard work for yourself---so I have the mind to pick up where they slacked off."

One hand left the sign to hold out and open to the senshi.

"Give me that energy."

"Didn't what?" Lyonsite replied. She usually wasn't a person driven to be agitated a lot---but she definitely had her jimmies rustled by people who swooped in to blatantly take advantage of other people's hard work. If the girl had just asked for help from the start? She'd would have been more than happy to have helped. No. Instead the girl acted like a tricksy vulture and---

The lieutenant was hit by the magic again, and her stern look was immediately replaced by a baffled look. Wait...what? Lyonsite's posture eased, and she looked down at the girl she was towering over as if seeing her again for the first time that evening.

"Uh..."

Like before, sudden clarity snapped her back into reality. Lyonsite's head shook, her wild mane of hair flying this way and that as she cleared the confusion from her mind. Again that senshi got her with her magic! They were certainly a formidable kind to be sure!

Lyonsite whirled on her heel, this time genuinely baffled that she had come out of the spell with an orb in her hand instead of out of it, too. That didn't excuse Lovejoy though. She was convinced the senshi still needed to be taught a lesson and not let off the hook.

"HEY!" She boomed. "I'm not done talking to you!" Or threatening her with another metal street sign. Same thing, really. "Get back here!" The lieutenant lurched into motion after the senshi once more, clutching both orb and sign in hand.

"About your lack of work ethic!" Lyonsite roared back. This time the girl had more of a running start, so it was taking the lieutenant a bit more time to catch up. "You don't know the definition of bullying!" She retorted, and bit by bit, she was catching up. She didn't hesitate to go barreling in after Lovejoy into the boutique and well...why was she heading in here? Clearly she wasn't hoping she could hide?

And why was she heading to a dressing room!? This girl just wanted to get caught. Lyonsite tore around the doorway and filled the frame of the one Lovejoy had disappeared into and---

Nothing.

"WHAAAT EVEN!?"

She stared at the empty little room in disbelief.

That rascally little senshi got away.

The woman turned, and nearly snarled as she bumped into a store mannequin. In a rare display of annoyance, Lyonsite sent the energy orb away, dropped her yield sign, picked up the mannequin and then hurled it out the front glass display window of the boutique.

Because ******** mannequins.

Her lips pulled in a corner of the security alarm started to go off, and decided it was high time to go. She reclaimed her yield sign, and walked out the boutique except well---

She kind of felt bad now about that mannequin out in the street and that she had ruined the glass display window.

Lyonsite picked it up, took it back inside, and then finally left, well before the cops arrived.

She'd be on the lookout for Lovejoy again.