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The tall, hooded senshi wandered down the corridor of onyx walls, running his hand along their surfaces and the facets of the crystals. If only he'd had his sketchbook with him, he could have drawn some of these. They would have been an interesting challenge, the way they captured and reflected the light, playing with various colors and refracting off each other. The way they shone and glistened...each seemed different. Were they all composed of different minerals, or all the same? Though Ptolemaeus had no way of finding out, he felt sure the other, more capable members of their court were doing their best to ascertain such things.

Thoughts of paper and recording as well as uncovering mysteries directed his thoughts to Eternal Sailor Acubens. He had yet to ask her about her book and if she had been using it to record what they knew of this place. Perhaps, if he asked nicely, she might have spared him a bit of paper to write or draw on. He knew he really should have started carrying around his own, though.

As he continued his aimless stroll, Ptolemy realized she probably wouldn't have been in the room she had been shown to. She seemed to be a doer, especially when it came to her court, and he was willing to bet anything he would find her exploring the castle if he continued to do the same. He wondered how she had been doing, stressed as she seemed most times they encountered each other, because it was usually during dangerous situations when she seemed to feel obligated to watch over less-experienced Dark Mirror Senshi. At the very least, he wanted to let her know she didn't have to try to shoulder that burden alone. She wasn't the only one looking out for them, after all.

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Acubens shrugged with a smile, running her hand down the painting she had finished recreating and said, "Eh, a little bit of column A, and a little bit of column B. There has got to be something useful around here, it's just a matter of finding it. The only trouble is that this is so far out of our own frames of reference we don't know how to tell. May as well get everything, right?" No to mention that she had also stashed away several little trinkets that she thought would look nice on her bedside table. Some perfume bottles, fabric-bound books, even a lovely crystal picture frame that she thought was just darling. The picture inside was too faded to make up, but somehow she felt that removing it would be disrespectful.

Ptolemy mentioning her book brought Acubens back to the present.

"Oh... yeah. It is. I don't know how much you remember but... it keeps me sane and busy at times like this." How much more did she say? Did she talk about how she felt so lost and alone in the White Moon Court and never wanted anyone in this court to feel that way ever? That seemed awfully... personal... So, in the end, she settled for handing the notebook over to Ptolemy.

"I still need to get you a key don't I, for the cipher. The good news is that it's fairly simple, each character equates to a letter so... nothing too terrible."

Acubens nearly laughed. Overworked was how she existed. Never enough time. Never enough done. Never enough. The hand on her shoulder was warm and did much to calm her nerves, if only for a second. She smiled a little more easily for a moment. Ptolemy's offer to help made it that much brighter. No one had formally offered to help, after all. It was... it was nice. Maybe she could use the help... after all, it was a lot of ground to cover all on her own, and who even knew. Maybe there were things that other senshi would find out that she never would. Different experiences, after all...

Acubens' mind worked at a million miles an hour all of a sudden, trying to work out the logistics when she hadn't even come up with a framework until it suddenly fizzled out into a bright explosion of color behind her eyes. A team, she realized in the cacophony of color and sound inside of her. It was amazing to watch as the dying sparks fell into place, creating a picture for one brief second that Acubens could see clearly and tried to memorize before the color faded.

"Of course," she breathed after an instant, "of course I'd like the help. Um... we'd have to work out a system... like a place and time to meet to discuss findings. And you'd have to learn the encryption of course, but that's not a terribly hard thing to do, each character relates back to a letter, so it's just time-consuming at first, really... yeah, actually that could really work..."

And then she suddenly realized how much she was talking.

"Oh but... god you must be tired. And i'm an eternal! I'm supposed to be looking after you! Listen, hun. Don't worry about me. Go on and get some sleep. Something tells me that we're going to need all the rest we can get."