The Glass Guardians closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

When she opened her eyes her face was blank and expressionless. Alice drew a sigil on the edge of the pentangle with a piece of silver-grey chalk. The light flared again only this time Alice looked away in time. Alice stepped out of the silver pentangle bare moments before two figures appeared in twin pentangles. The triangle was complete.

"Thank you for coming, Bianca and Akako."

Bianca frowns, "You asked for a meeting Ghislaine." she says, annoyance accenting her aristocratic features.

"I did." the Glass Guardian bites her lip. And all of a sudden she seems much younger. "There- I need help."

Bianca looks disapprovingly at her and Akako looks pensive.

"You're not six anymore Ghislaine." It's Bianca who makes the first move. Akako opens her mouth then thinks better of it and shuts it, deciding to observe instead.

"I- Your right." the Glass Guardian is resigned in her agreement.

"What do you need?" Akako's voice is light and soft like feathers.

Bianca looks at her sharply. "Ghislaine is an independent leader of her own faction. I believe this is a violation of the non-interference policy?"

"If she needs help, she needs help. There's nothing wrong with asking for help. I believe it was only half a century ago that you fled to my faction after a coup d'etat-"

"-Stop!" she practically snarls, a mix between a hiss and a protest.

"As I was saying, what do you need," Akako turns back to Ghislaine, kindly sister voice back. Alice feels like she is intruding on a moment.

And Ghislaine is blooming, like a flower under the light of Akako's kind sisterly aura.

Bianca's frowns tightly.