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Hotaru is gone.

[Her voice is monotone.

Two senshi in as many weeks. Plus a slew of other absences. On top of everything else that has happened. Rei is dangerously close to snapping, but she manages it well.

It's really just the icing on the cake.]

[Filtered to the senshi // Private // Unhackable]

That Aya woman is from our world. I know she is. But I don't remember who or why... We should keep an eye on her.

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[Usagi smiles kind of blankly, because... what?]

But. She's so nice. And friendly. And she hasn't done anything bad.

She's an enemy from our world, Usagi. From our future.

[But it already sounds like Rei is going to drop it. She closes her eyes, though Usagi can't see it.]

... I thought I recognized her, from the memories we got, and Michiru just -- told me for sure. She thinks it's the woman from our world, though, not hers.

Let's... give it a chance.

[Even without Usagi's tendencies, she really hasn't done anything here yet. And most of their enemies just don't seem that friendly. Mimete, maybe, if only Usagi knew it - and away from those influences, like Aluminum Siren is now, Mimete might not have done anything bad at all.]

She really hasn't done anything to us, as we are, here, or even back in our worlds. I know we have to be careful, but I don't want to treat her like an enemy, either.

[Just... like a friend she might not exactly bring home, or go off alone with ~~again~~.]

Just be careful.

[Rhode and Lucifer managed to steal away their friends in the dead of night, from underneath everyone's noses. She isn't taking the same chances with a known enemy from their world.]

Hmm. It doesn't seem like she knows who we are. Do you think she does?

She might not recognize us outside of our uniforms.

Mm. [This is why letting all Adstring know was BAD, Rei. :|]

We should tell people to keep it quiet.

[It's not her fault shinigami can sense energy signatures. It was only a matter of time before someone noticed that Sailor Mars and Hino Rei were the same person. And by that point... well, the cat was out of the bag.]

Our enemies won't listen.

Our enemies aren't here. And our friends will.

Sebastian will tell her in a heartbeat, Usagi.

[He is an enemy. She can't look at him in any other way.]

Forget it.

[She does not have energy to keep fighting this right now.]

[That stings, for the barest moment.

Forget it?

Forget talking about the fact that an enemy has just arrived? Forget that their identity isn't protected in this place, as it was at home? Forget that Sebastian Michaelis is a threat?

She's never been brushed off like that before, not by Usagi.]

[ -- then, Rei grits her teeth, because she has tried to keep strong, for the senshi, and for everyone else in Adstringendum, but sometimes, even the strongest brick cracks under pressure.]

I'm not going to forget that there are people here who want us dead, Usagi. I can't do that. And as badly as you want me to, and as badly as you want me to let it go, I can't.

[Her voice rises, ever so slightly.]

We aren't safe here. This isn't Tokyo, Usagi, this isn't a place where we can go to school and pretend and have another life, okay? We're soldiers. That's who we are, in this world, and there are people here who are dangerous, and I'm trying to keep all of us safe and be the soldier I'm supposed to be and I can't do that if you just tell me to forget it!

[But then, she falls silent abruptly, biting her tongue until it hurts.

What was she even doing?]

Usagi --

[But she doesn't know what else to say, after her outburst. There's the slightest hitch of breath before Rei clicks the PCD off, before she says something else she's going to regret.]

[She hadn't quite meant it like that, and as soon as she hears that tiny catch in Rei's voice, she regrets it. But... she can't keep going, every day, so many ways everything about her is poked, prodded, tested, challenged, and used as a punching bag. Rei isn't doing the last, of course, but Usagi is so tired of hope being shot down.

And then the yelling comes and she wants to explain, wants to say she hadn't meant that but that she can't keep arguing, with Killua, with Ciel, with Rei, with Fran, with so many people about these things.

And then there's that. There is perhaps nothing in Adstringendum that makes Usagi feel worse than the sound of the PCD feed being cut. This time, she's beyond tears. She sits on her bed, knees drawn to her chest with her arms wrapped around them.]

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