iii ✩ a different shade of pink.

[zeo]

WHO: katherine hillard & joruk
WHAT: memory stars event
WHERE: old bay remnants
WHEN: april 11th, afternoon

Curiosity has finally gotten the better of her. Against better judgement, Katherine's making an appearance at the water's edge, cautiously peering out across it in hopes of seeing one of these stars she's heard so much about. If anyone had said anything to her about the nature of those stars, about how touching them would spark a memory she may not be too keen on remembering, she wouldn't have come.

But she's hear now, and as one of the stars rises from the water, she reaches out to grab it. It's warm, and it's alight in her palm for the briefest of seconds before it's dissolving to what looks like stardust, seeping through her fingertips and fading away on the wind. What she ends up reliving isn't anything bad, but it's not something she wants anyone to see, either.

She was glad Kimberly had talked to her before Alpha teleported her to the Command Center so she wouldn't feel so put on the spot, but her answer would've been the same either way: Yes. After everything she'd done while under Rita's control, the least she could do was take up the mantle of the Pink Ranger in Kimberly's place and fight the forces of evil alongside the other Rangers.

When she snaps out of it, vision clearing and giving way to the watery remains of the Bay, she's surprised to see that she isn't alone.

"Joruk."

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Katherine breathed a sigh of relief and shook her head. "No. Fortunately, the Machine Empire doesn't have that ability, and they're more likely to attack the masses than torture on individual."

Torture wasn't their style. They knew who the Rangers were in their civilian forms, but they seemed to leave those who didn't also know about them alone. As if they weren't worth the trouble if there wasn't anything they could do for them, no added information on the goings on of Power Rangers they could provide them with. It needed to stay that way.

"I have to say, having someone know is actually kind of freeing, in a sense. I always had the other Power Rangers to share this secret with, but here, I'm the only one."

She'd morphed on more than on occasion, but as far as anyone knew, Katherine Hillard and the Pink Ranger who two entirely different people.

"What you went through," she offered in regards to what she saw of his memories, "it must've been difficult." Katherine fought monsters on a near daily basis back home, but she couldn't imagine dealing with the sort of situation Joruk seemed to have been in.