On seeing a young housewife-type making strange motions and causing a tree to erupt from the ground, growing from sprout to several years of growth in minutes - she wasn't entirely sure how to relate to this.
"I take it that you're a magical girl as well?" asked Nightshade. "Your motions are some sort of spell gesture?"
"Oh no, it's just to help me concentrate," said the girl. "I saw it in My Neighbor Totoro and it looked fun."
"I see..." said Nightshade. "Your powers then are related to wood?"
The girl considered that briefly, then turned her full attention to Nightshade.
The false-ninja stepped back in alarm as the girl seemed to loom taller, blonder, more curvaceous and full of life suddenly somehow.
"I am of Idunn," said the woman. "Keeper of the apples of youth, tender of plants and the woods domestic, one of the Norse goddesses of the hearth and field. Bragi twas Idunn's husband, for wine and poet share a link older than old."
Then the overwhelming presence simply winked out and the girl was there, frowning prettily as she considered something.
Sailor Pluto stepped out into the battlefield again. The ancient castle remained floating off to the side as it had.
"You can come out now," said Sailor Pluto. "We're alone."
The silence continued around her without answer.
"Or no, it isn't that you won't come out, is it?" Sailor Pluto asked the silence. "It's more that you can't quite manage it, can you?"
A faint breeze stirred the mists.
"Well, I'd expect you to be a bit low on power, being dead usually does that," mused Sailor Pluto aloud. "Thor is asleep, as is Ranma at the moment. So I know who you are anyway."
The breeze stirred slightly and a spectral form began to appear on the battlefield.
"Old One-eye, Lord of the Hangman's Tree, High Father, should I go on?" asked Pluto.
A sad shake of the head was her answer.
"So what do you want?" asked Pluto. "With your reputation, I'm fairly sure that no one is going to want to channel you. Much less certain others."
The voice when it was heard was so faint that even with the Garnet Orb active to catch stray thoughts, and listening for it in that otherwise perfect silence, Pluto could barely catch it.
"just save what you can of my children, they who deserved better."
Pluto considered that, and inclined her head, acknowledging the point as the figure faded completely away - apparently exhausting its reserves in that plea. "We'll see. We'll certainly see."
Sailor Pluto was sufficiently shocked when she opened her eyes to find that someone had crept up and laid their hands on her staff while she was in Asgard. That it was Kodachi Kuno was only a minor add on to that.
As to why, well, that was obvious enough. She'd heard from one or another of those about Kasumi gaining the spirit of Idunn.
THWACK!
Kodachi Kuno, aka Nightshade, fell to the ground after being given a sufficiently large hit to the head.
That something fell from the Kuno's hand merely indicated more problems. Though as she might need that item to transform meant that there were limitations on how much problem she could be.
Careful not to touch it directly, using a pair of kitchen tongs to handle it, Setsuna took the item where she could properly examine it and discover this was:
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