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Clack, clack.

Beige boots landed, one by one, on a field of blue prismatic stone. It sure had taken some work to find this place again. Sometimes it moved, just a little bit, enough to make him have to go through the whole process of tracking it down again. It wasn't a planet, or even an asteroid -- just an island in space that could easily go unnoticed if one didn't know how to look for it.

Thankfully, Kurma did.

He was here to check on something.

The familiar face and voice made Kurma perk up immediately, and he turned fully to greet the former Knight. "Yuki!" he said, jovially. "Wow, I wasn't expecting you to still be around! How've you been? I brought along some little cakes if... oh."

A more careful look at Yuki brought his current, misty state to clarity. "Can't eat anymore, huh... sorry, friend." A bit of sympathy tinted his expression and deep voice. "Why are you still hanging around here, then? The Cauldron's not so bad, you know."

"Oh," said Kurma. "Knight business, I see." It was a bit amusing, honestly, to see his old acquaintance in a huff over his descendant. Noting the impatient shifting, he said, "And you look like you could use an excuse to talk about it. Go on, hit me. I got time."

He was here for a reason, but it could wait if he could ease Yuki's mind a bit.

Ghosted by a ghost. Kurma chuckled appreciatively, though the direct meaning of that phrase was unknown to him. Context offered enough clues for it to make sense: Yuki's next in line was proving to be an intangible and unpredictable presence. No offense to present company, of course.

"Come on now, you probably already know that, right?" He crossed his arms and tilted his head expectantly. "Besides getting to chat you up again, why else would I be here? I'm here to check on that thing I asked you to do last time I showed up. And the time before that."

There was a pause as he unwrapped one of the snack cakes he had brought.

"You did do it, right?"

A look of disappointment began to slide across Kurma's features at the beginning of Yuki's reply. However, at the arrival of the newest knight of Erytheia, his face snapped right back to its usual easygoing smile, and he offered an enthusiastic and friendly wave.

"Hi there! You must be Erytheia Junior!" he greeted. "The clothes sure match. I was just over here checking in on Erytheia Senior, seeing how he's been... I took a dip in the Cauldron since the last time I saw him, but..." With a chuckle, he tugged meaningfully at his own unusual garb. "My clothes haven't changed either, so we're still getting along great. Here, have a cake. Yuki can't eat it."

He tossed the second snack cake to the younger Knight.

"Maybe you can help me out, friend. I was just asking Yuki here if he'd done something important I asked him to do before he died." He peered back over to the ghostly elder, and a bit of seriousness in his eyes broke through the carefree grin. "However, it's sounding like he didn't do it. I don't know much about Knights, I admit, but I think that means it's your job now. So, Yuki, why don't you tell your kid what he's in for?"

"Astrayan?" Kurma huffed and shook his head, though the grin didn't leave. "Yeah, sure. Here's lesson one for you, Erytheia Junior... Everyone by Yuki's time agreed Astraya is a myth. You'd have to be really out of the loop to think it's real. Stars alive... I thought you knew that."

His gaze at Yuki was pointed and piercing, but brief.

"As for how, that's simple. You just need the same equipment or magic you might use to demolish any other building. And there's one other thing about all this..."

Kurma paused to take a bite of the snack cake in his hand. He ate with no etiquette or grace, dropping crumbs all over the Wonder's crystalline ground. "Sailor Cosmos herself has been helping me get rid of these things. She agrees the people who built them are dangerous. So if you're a Cosmos Knight... I'm pretty sure that means helping me out here is your job." A bit of impatience, a bit of agitation, colored the tone of his voice, as if he was talking about an itch on his back he couldn't quite reach. "So you might have some questions to answer when you get back to the Cauldron, Yuki. Just saying."

Well, that took care of that. Finally. Kurma was visibly relieved to know that eyesore on an otherwise beautiful and innocent Wonder would be gone.

"I'm sure he will be," he said, "with a mentor like you around." He grinned and winked at the ghost. "Thanks for following through on this. I owe you one. Now, if you'll excuse me... I got places to go and things to do. Catch you at the Cauldron, Yuki."

He gave the Knight and ancestor a friendly, gracious wave, and then, with a swell of amber light -- he was gone.