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Mariner Castle

Mar 23, 2010 06:13

The room is enormous, a chamber large enough to house a planetarium. It's reminiscent of one, with its high domed roof and the abundance of computer equipment. Dark windows show the outside, but the view is like nothing from Earth. The wrong planets are closest and the pattern of the stars is off. All of it's empty except for the control panels ( Read more... )

mercury/mizuno ami (waterfell), moon/tsukino usagi (rabbitofjustice), moon/tsukino usagi (giniru_delight), serenity (serenitynohime), chibi-usa/small lady (mirai_no_hime), kunzite (kingoftruth), jadeite (midori_loyalty), *open to all, zoisite (kingofdevotion), kunzite/ichiou shin (shiroi_petals), nehellenia (queenofdeadmoon), mizuno saeko (mama_first), pallas/aisu miai (childishwisdom)

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waterfell March 22 2010, 21:24:29 UTC

Mercury turns her head to the side, just enough to see the visitor over her shoulder, and for the visitor to see the blankly cold expression on her face. It changes to a smirk as she turns around, voice high and light in a tone that's somehow mocking.

"Welcome to Mariner Castle, Tsukino-san! Did you come alone?"

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waterfell March 22 2010, 22:09:41 UTC

"It was the nexus." Mercury unhelpfully leaves no hints as to whether that's excusing Usagi's presence or mocking Usagi for the excuse. Her smirk only grows as the smile fades.

"Don't worry!" she says in a tone far from natural or reassuring. "I don't plan to kill you here."

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serenitynohime March 22 2010, 21:28:27 UTC

She doesn't notice the transition at first, because she's too busy making a confused face at the wall of books that are staring at her from the shelf. All she wanted to do was get a replacement for the lesson book she doodled all over, but these books... they're so hard! So, trying not to draw Mercury's attention, Serenity finally reaches for what she hopes is a book she can use... and begins to pull it from the shelf.

waterfell March 22 2010, 21:37:15 UTC

Mercury's head turns sharply the second she senses the other girl's presence - or perhaps it's just the light rustle of the princess' gown, the faint scent of her clothing and hair. The senshi's eyes narrow with recognition and her mouth sets in an angry line.

"What are you doing?"

serenitynohime March 22 2010, 21:44:50 UTC

"Aah!" She turns quickly, obviously caught! And then she sees Mercury, and her eyes widen even more than they already were, if it's possible. That uniform! Then... Serenity glances around her quickly, and it's the same place... but it's different, too. What-?

"Mercury?"

waterfell March 22 2010, 21:52:13 UTC

Mercury can sense the doodles in Serenity's thought bubbles. While Serenity is looking at her books. Or maybe she's just angry anyway; the princess seems to bring that out in her still.

Leave, she'd like to demand. How did you get here? she'd like to demand. What are you doing here? she'd like to demand.

"Don't touch those," Mercury demands. The rest is the nexus.

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waterfell March 22 2010, 21:40:56 UTC

She shows no surprise at his arrival, just as he shows none at finding her here. That, Mercury finds, is more interesting. She has a little smile for Kunzite as she turns around.

"So you remember this place?" she takes the guess.

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waterfell March 22 2010, 22:42:15 UTC

Mercury nods slightly and glances towards the screens, then back to Kunzite.

"I heard that they existed in the past, so I thought it'd be possible to find out something." She grins almost mischievously, or perhaps with nothing more than the deserved pride of a sharp mind solving its puzzle. "I can access a lot of the Moon Castle's data and records from here, too."

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waterfell March 22 2010, 21:58:47 UTC

Jadeite must be losing his touch, or maybe the answer is in a tiny corner of the display. Mariner Castle has plenty of guards and defenses. Whatever prompts it, Mercury turns around almost immediately once Jadeite arrives.

"If you came to visit here, isn't it rude to stand there silently?" she teases him.

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waterfell March 22 2010, 22:45:02 UTC

"Should I believe that from Jadeite?" Mercury retorts, in much the same joking spirit. The boy she'd once resented as a sneak of a spy for Beryl is still quite good at slipping in and out of places unnoticed, and showing up very, very, quietly.

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waterfell March 22 2010, 22:20:08 UTC

Here, yes, there is still sound, even the trickle of water from some nearby fountain that can't be seen from here; but the eerie silence of the ruins of her planet itself would likely disturb even Zoisite. Mercury turns around, and when she spots the musician, her face becomes serious, though not quite hostile.

"I didn't expect you," she admits. She's not the girl who'd bend over backwards to welcome someone anyway, anymore. "But it's alright. It can't be helped if it was the nexus."

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waterfell March 22 2010, 22:48:03 UTC

You can't get much better than an agent on the inside who happens to be the enemy's leader and figurehead. Thanks to Nehellenia, they know what Nehellenia may be planning. They also know she's very close, so coming this far away for her research has been a somewhat roundabout method she doesn't really like.

But still necessary.

"I heard the enemy may have existed in the past," she tells Zoisite. "So I want to see what I can learn about that." Including how they were defeated the first time. They must have been, mustn't they? It was a different war that ended that past.

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