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Well, that's a fancy looking phone.

But his attention was directed all the more to the new arrivals and to Snowball's and Cybele's questions. "I got mine from Mauvian Ash, who said they were kept at the Mauvian HQ. In the meantime, Faust has brought a bunch..."

He held up a finger to beg them wait a moment and checked where the bobtail have been digging. No, there wasn't a stash there. Next best thing was molest the cat until his hammer space pocket produced one- Thraen crossed the grass to where the big black tom was still giving him the cold shoulder, crouched, and then vigorously petted and ruffled the Mauvian with both hands until he felt something. He stroked one hand along Faust to straighten his now gloriously mauled fluff before standing, and offered out a second pearl to Cybele.

"I'll take up Cybele and Eris first- it will be a good opportunity to show you how it is done. Ashur, welcome, this is one of the Ferries to the Moon meet about the Black Watch. If you'd be so kind as to wait with Niflhel here, I'll be right back. "

"Take either of my arms both of you. Now, the new phone will be a little different, but here's the button that you'd normally concentrate on your homeworld and press it to visit that. With these pearl charms attached to the phone, on the full moon you can concentrate on the Moon Ruin, press this button and you will go there instead. The focus, the listened to the memory and ...feel of the magic of that place, is the important part. And it takes a lot of energy. You'll find it easier to do once you see it, though, to know what to focus on. "

Ashur only nodded at Thraen, a quiet thanks for the small tidbit of information and agreement to stay back for the time being. The Squire took his place nearby Nilfhel, arms soon crossing his chest as he watched Thraen take the girls up first. "It'd be nice to be able to do a bit more than guard duty, yeah," he echoed, then turned and offered the other a half smile. "But I'm cool with it, too, so."

At the question Ash sighed lightly. "Alright, I guess. Woke up late from an accidental nap, if you can believe it." This was all said with a smirk; he couldn't really help but feel amused that this bad habit of his was even catching up to his powered life. He...probably ought to fix that.

"You?"

Penthesilea knew she was late getting to the ferry point for the Moon, but she didn't particularly care. She had lost track of time trying, hopelessly, to get back to her planet - sure, it had only been two days, but maybe after she had done something as grandiose as murdered a dude in ritualized combat there, it might let her back in early?

The answer was no, and so the red-haired Senshi arrived just in time to see Thraen take the first two to the Moon. She let out a small huff, mostly at herself for being so damned late.

No more trying to ******** with space travel when she actually had somewhere to be, damn it.

Niflhel smiled a nodded a welcome to all those who joined as he was talking to Ashur, "Ahh, I was late because I was making sure the dog was fed before I left the house. Merlin's probably the only one in the house that couldn't take care of himself."

He then gave a smile, "Welcome all to Ferry Point. I'm Niflhel." He paused when Tharen showed back and mentioned that things were overflow at Ferry Point 3, "Well that's troubling. I hope Horatio is okay."

Snowball looked over at Theran though he didn't move much, wondering what the senshi was typing on his phone. Tail flickering in occasional content.

His phone rang back fairly soon, from Athene. Murphy's Law that all the activity center on any Ferry except the one that was fully manned. There was nothing to do but be adaptable, and that they were willing to do the same was wonderful. He clicked back the reply rapidly.



Then back to Ida to let her know what was going on, and an idea of when and what company to expect.



"We're sending a mauvian from 2 over to 3, so it'll all work out." The eternal of gardens took a long, slow breath and looked up at his small grouping and away from the phone. "Penthesilea, do you already have a Moon Pearl Charm? I can take you and Ashur up next, unless you'd be willing to take a charm and help in the ferrying and guarding in Niflhel's place- since the charms do the knights no good. Ashur, if you're ready to go up? Have you been to the Moon Ruin before?"

Pre-emptively he started ruffle-petting Faust's fur again, looking for CatSpace to align with CatConcentration and spit out another pearl.

Ashur gave a small nod when Thraen answered his question, still not sure what was going on but relieved all the same that a solution had already been found. He kept his eyes on the eternal and, when mention of it being his turn to finally head up, moved toward him. "Guess I'll see you up there," he said with a wave to the Saturn Knight, smiling.

He took his place beside Thraen and gave a shake of his head. "Didn't even know such a place existed, to be honest," came his admission. Considering he was a knight and only barely starting to seriously get his hands dirty, though, the man figured it was...excusable. "Anything I should--" He stopped short of finishing his question when he watched as one of the cats produced a pearl from its...fur.

Ashur blinked a moment, eyes squinted and brows scrunched together as they usually were when he found something curious. When the cat went back to its job, though, he shoved the urge to start spouting questions about that -- he could do that later -- and continued with what he'd been trying to say earlier. "Anything I should keep an eye out for?"

A step of long shanks was all it needed to retrieve the newest FaustPearl and offer it out to Penthesilea. "Excellent. This is Faust, and this is Snowball. If someone comes while I'm gone, let them know the particulars - this is the first ferry, we'll take them to the moon and get them a pearl off of Faust, a Mauvian can upgrade their phone up on the moon, and you'll take the next group up as soon as I'm back. Alternating makes the draw less on any one of us. "

"Ashur, Niflhel? If you'll each take an elbow?" Thraen waited for them while readying his phone again. In answer to Ashur's query he offered, "Its a ruined cloister that we'll be going to. There's pillows and blankets for comfort and cold, and some others will be there waiting that you can meet and mingle with. As for any particulars you should be looking for, about how the Moon Ruin history is significant specific to knights or to Uranus knights, someone else might have better answers. One answer is the war started with events between the Earth and Moon, but for now the ruin is a sanctuary and little more. "

"Some focus and a push of a button..."

Faust snapped out of the meditative stance of energy dampening when he felt fingers comb through his fur again, raking away another pearl lost to his ceaseless tufts. While he huffed, he offered no further discontent toward the action. Even if Thraen knew how to pet a cat, and pet a cat goddamn well, he was still in the dog house so far as the Mauvian was concerned.

At the sound of Penthesilea's voice, the cat perked up just enough to offer a short grunt in response. A second one followed, longer, and he half-rose to sniff at her boot. "Yo, s**t's kosher. No need to thank." Afterward he settled back into his role of mitigating their presence to the extent that his frazzled concentration allowed.