In a message dated 8/4/2003 11:17:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mchase@ix.netcom.com writes:

  "Indeed, my Black Rose," Saekianna said with a predatory
smile.  "I believe we have finally had a bit of good luck."

She may need to be more careful of her definition of good luck.  Yoshi
is, at most, a sideshow as far as the Sisterhood's current problems
are concerned.  Dealing with him should be deferred until after Dasma
is freed or the attempt has failed.  Even using him to catch Jupiter
would be an unexpected bonus since they think he just happened upon
the attempt to snatch Makoto.

       No, since Sass has been shown that Usagi is Moon, it probably wasn't 
hard for her to come to the conclusion that Makoto is probably a Senshi.  I 
think she even speculated about it on-screen.  And even if Makoto isn't a Senshi, 
she's still connected to Usagi, and as such Yoshi represents leverage, even 
if once- or twice-removed.  Sass doubtless has APBs out on all the senshi, all 
the civilian IDs she's been able to connect to them, and everyone she suspects 
is connected to them at all.  Yoshi just came up onto her radar first.

  "Relax?" I grumbled.  "So far today monsters overran a police
station, I got sent into the Nekoken, our plan to trap the vampire
failed, and now the girls have gone into a cemetery to talk to this
Hotaru, who apparently would gladly chop me into bits if she knew
that I was the Outsider.  Not feeling the urge to relax here."

Yep, it's clear he's overreacting.

       "Yep, you're clearly overreacting.  Smile, babe!"

  "Lily," Jupiter said softly.  Mars blinked.  Jupiter's eyes
seemed glazed, unfocussed, as they went from Yoshi's fallen form to
Saekianna.
  No.  Not Saekianna.  She was looking behind her, at ...
  "LILY!"
  Then the world exploded in light.

That's even better than "shoot the hostage", the perfect irrational
act to break the deadlock.

       Yeah, but who'd hire Keanau Reeves to play Makoto?  (Ewwww.....)

  "Gone," Rin said, watching Jupiter carefully.  "All of them, gone.
Courtesy of your rage and that magicked whip, it appears.  I must
confess, I would dearly love to know what that woman did to have
enraged you so."

Yes. Take notes and be very, very careful not to do the same.

       One *hopes* that Rin learns something from this.  But based on his 
past behavior, it'll probably be the wrong thing.  Something like "tranq her 
before spanking her," or like that.

  "I still don't see how that will help us locate the others,"
Pluto said as Mars prepared herself.  "Or what it has to do with
Mercury.  Surely you aren't going to tell me that she's a Shadow
Adept, too?"

It's actually surprising how many secrets the Inners kept under
Hotaru's roof.  I would have expected Hotaru to have investigated her
recruits a bit more carefully.

       Arrogance?  Hotaru's got more than her share of that, for certain.  At 
minimum, she has something of a blind spot where the Inners are concerned -- 
she probably needs it, given her psychological hangups concerning Serenity.

  "Come on, Yurina," Mars said with a humourless laugh.  "I
remember all of them, every single one.  And so do you."

This makes it sound like Rei was involved in that mission, but she
didn't appear to know Makoto's story in part 9 though she did know
that Makoto had been in the Black Dragons.  Or does Rei mean she
remembers every mission?

       Every mission, or maybe just every nasty, perverted thing they did for 
Griitna thinking that they were serving Dasma.  There's a subtext here, I 
think, that maybe the Sisterhood wasn't always as nasty as it is now.  Springing 
Dasma might actually be a good thing.

  "Desire is a cruel mistress," Yurina said serenely.  "I have
accepted the risks that come with my life.  It is simply ironic that in
this case, I sought only selfish pleasure and instead did damage far
beyond what I could have imagined."

It actually sounds like seducing Makoto is one of the least selfish
things she'd ever done.  That's what makes all the damage it did so
ironic.

       Oh yeah.  The irony is so thick, you can nearly taste it....

-- 
David McMillan, Imagineer at Large.  
Chief Systems Analyst and Integration Engineer, Exotic Technologies Division, 
  <Censored> GmBh.  Mecha and Weapons Design Specialist.
"Agent Mulder?  My name is Neo.  I believe I may be able to show you part of 
the truth you've been searching for.  I should warn you, however -- it's not 
what you think."
--



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