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He laughed softly, taking a bite of his bagel to cover up the slight embarrassment at that question. "I've been coming up here for about four years now I think? I'd make trips on weekends or holidays when I was in college..."

Inside the Archives he'd managed to clean up the front entrance, the rubble had either been tossed outside or stacked neatly in a corner. He'd cleaned the floor as best he could and the desk even had the usual assortment of items one would expect to see on a library desk.

He nodded, smiling as he looked over at Arin. "It was a lot of alone time but it did wonders for letting me find out who I am. Up here there's no one to get in the way. And I made myself a small cabin so I could come up here and stay for a whole weekend or a week if I had a holiday but yea, it made a good place to have somewhere quiet to study. Better than the college library."

Popping the last bite of his bagel into his mouth he nudged Arin forward. "Go out into the main part of the library and look up."

Lucien was glad that out of the things that had survived the glass dome atop the Archive had as well. There were cracks and he was pretty sure a bit was missing down toward the bottom edge but the rest was intact. The stars were a bit harder to see without the lights inside making the gold glitter but if one took the time to look they were still there.

"I don't know how that made it through everything but ... it's one of my favorite things still here."

"I have a map of it." He laughed softly. "I brought a sleeping bag in here and drew the whole thing. It doesn't quite match the sky anymore and it's all out of sorts since it's the view from this asteroid rather than earth but I've been able to figure some things out." The rest he couldn't tell why they were significant since he couldn't find any labels he could read.

He caught Arin's hand again before leading him toward one side of the library. He'd managed to clean out one stairwell down into the Vaults and wanted to show the other man. "Most of the books were up here but ... I think I found an office of sorts that used to belong to me."

"Memories." When the stairs evened out he headed up to a door on the left side of the hallway and pushed it open. "I don't know what anyone has told you but unlike knights senshi are all reincarnations. So when we're on our homeworlds we have, they're sort of flashbacks, where we can see ourselves. It's part of how i transcended in a way."

Inside the room was his, Jinyue's, office. The tables were still standing and covered in books. One he'd left open where it sat on the table since he was afraid moving it would damage it.

"I've seen myself down here multiple times and I know from hearing the Grand Archivist talk that that senior scribes had offices so my best guess is that this one was mine."

"It was really strange at first but I've gotten used to it, as used to it as you can get." It was easier now that he just sort of assumed that he could be pulled into a flashback at any time. "So if I zone out for a minute don't freak out. That's what it is. This was a bit of both actually. From what I can tell no one else was allowed down here without my permission

He smiled as he felt the hand on his back, the feeling settling over him that the room was somehow safer and more familiar. Arlen's ... wait Arin's ... no Arlen's hand always felt good .....

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He laughed softly, head tipping back. “I do have such wonderful memories to keep me company now though. Makes it a bit easier when I miss you.”

“We should work on making more of them….” his voice rumbled low against the other man's skin, hands trailing along Jins back.

“Arlen …” He groaned softly, tugging at the other man's hair gently. “Not against my books … then you can do whatever you want to me.”

“Whatever I want, hmm?” he laughed softly against his lover's neck before stepping back. “Stars, I love you. Heart and soul, Jin.”

“Whatever you want.” He couldn't stop the flush from coloring his cheeks at the other man’s words. As Arlen stepped back he shrugged off his outer robe, setting it over a chair. “My soul. My starseed, feels so much brighter with you around.”

He slid his arms around the other man again, drawing Jin’s back to his chest. His lips slid along the other man's neck before brushing against his ear. “My life is brighter with you in it.”

Jinyue's response was cut off when the door swung open again and a nervous scribe peered in. "S-sir ... I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt ... but a latter came for the Knight of Mag Mell. They told me he was with you sir."

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Lucien was almost getting used to seeing the faceless shadow that his former self had been fooling around with but seeing them in stark reality was a bit startling. The face was one he looked at far too much and he obviously still had a habit of running his fingers through the same silvery hair. He would have called it wishful thinking if the interruption hadn't included a name.

Mag Mell

Jinyue's lover had been Arin. Laughing softly as he came back to himself he looked at his lover. "Mag Mell ... you're a reincarnation? Not a descendant."

"Yea, I think it is." He nodded, reaching up to run his fingers along Arin's jaw. His first instinct was to think that vision, what they were, had something to do with them now. Wasn't that the obvious conclusion? But he'd fallen in love with Arin without knowing. He hadn't fallen for Mag Mell first, he'd fallen for Arin. That was different.

"I've been having flashbacks lately, sometimes just little visions or feelings, but they involved someone else. Jinyue's, that was my name before, lover. At least I assumed lover from what I've seen." He paused to take a breath, not quite sure how Arin would take this. "I never really saw him until now, just now ... another scribe called him Mag Mell. It was you."

He bit his lip, watching Arin's face for a reaction. Worried Arin wouldn't like the idea or would think it was too much or too strange.