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"Not a clue." Laverna admitted as she listened to Diadem. Her eyes did another scan of the room, taking in one more who came through the mirror. "I've been to Mirrorspace enough to know that sometimes it likes to play practical jokes on us...jokes I believe only it finds funny."

But her hand reached out and touched Diadem's shoulder. "But don't panic. Panic gets us all killed and we both have far too much fun to have to be dying here..." Winking at her, Laverna pulled her hand back as she felt it for the first time.

"Did you feel something?"

"I thought I heard... noises... when I first came in..." But then, it all felt like they were pushing through deep water. She wasn't sure she was hearing things correctly, or if she was, how this strange pressure would impact things. Would the glass drift down like through water if it did break? ...They would be so lucky. Still... she flashed a smile at Laverna, albeit a tense one.

"You mean the sort of splintery bits or...?" There might have been a groan, but low and distant like whale song, and she was even less sure she trusted he ears on that.

Whales would be kind of awesome... unless the Mirrorverse was about to try and drown them by opening, say, a vent to the deep ocean from an barnacle covered mirror in the deep sea. She wouldn't be surprised if it did that.

"It feels like things are going to go all Surrealist on us. Like... Dahli or... that..." She waved a hand. "Remember the artist who did all the paintings of like, whales diving through clouds or space nebulas and stuff? ... It feels like that. But... in a kind of scary way, like the kind of 'the animal part of my brain is telling me there's a tiger in the grass' way."

Chione had tried to ignore it. She had tried very, very hard to ignore the shimmering mirror in her bathroom. And in her bedroom. And in the living room. Finally, after sending a text to Rhona saying that she was going to see what was up with the mirrors, Lavender had powered up and slipped into one, frowning when she saw pretty much all of the other Dark Mirror senshi amassed. Again.

Well. s**t.

She spotted Acubens and her crew and trotted over, frowning at a younger looking girl with pigtails who looked as though the world was ending, and gave a little wave. “Hello crew. Mirrorspace is pulling us on another ride it looks like, hm?”

Leaning forward, Chione kissed Acubens on the cheek and gave a rather fond smile to Kiuchi and Crocus. “So…how was I able to join all of you lovely people…last time you had to drag me in here, Acubens. I sent you a text message, I suppose this means you haven’t gotten it yet, so when we get out of here, and you have a new message saying my mirrors are acting strangely, well. That’s why I’m here.”

She felt…almost relaxed and glanced around giving a tiny wave to Remarque, glad again that he had spoken to her and she hadn’t thrown in the towel quite yet. Though if this experience turned out to be anything like the last…she might end up regretting that thought.

Acubens had to physically actually stop herself from getting starry eyed when Chione walked into the room. Even more so with the show of affection. What she could not do, however, was stop the huge stupid dumb dopey grin from spreading across her face as Chione spoke. Her voice was so pretty... and she'd come here on her own... Was Acubens a love sick puppy or a proud Dark Mirror Momma in that moment? She usually opted for both but given the maternal role she felt that might be inappropriate...

"Then I guess I'll text you back the results when we figure out what going on," she chirped back, returning Chione's affection by squeezing her hand. She was kind of so grossly chrushing on her girlfiend (holy s**t her girlfriend holy s**t) that she momentarily forgot that her two best friends and her boys were standing right next to her probably wondering what was going on, given that in her turmoil over falling in love again she had kept the situation kind of under wraps...

Did she tell them now?

Was now the time?

Leto arrived, signalling that it was not, in fact, the time to explain anything. She did however wink lightly at Lesath, hoping that the other woman would understand that she'd get all the details when they were no longer on the brunk of probably total destruction. Remarque could hang too if he wanted.

Acubens nodded respectfully at Leto, noting that neither she nor Remaruqe had powered up to royal... which was probably a good sign. That meant that this wasn't an emergency, right? Or at least not yet...

"Well, Kiuchi... that assumption is based on a few conditions. One being that mirror space recognizes changes as quickly as we do, and the other being that mirror space reacts as quickly as we do. And all of this is based on the central assumption that mirror space is, in fact, sentient." Acubens paused to find out who had come in, recognizing Crocus of course, but also another dark senshi whom she'd run into some week before.

Merkeb - Senshi of wishes

Skin still damp from having just stepped out of the shower, Jenna grabbed one of the oversized plush hotel quality towels and wrapped it around her body before squeezing the excess water from her hair.

Dance practice had been a bit more involved than the previous few weeks which left her sorely missing her brother just that much more. Kenneth was great and all but a year and a half later and he was still making some of the same mistakes; which included nearly dropping her on her face after tossing her in the air. There was a level of trust that came with such moves and to be honest, she really didn’t have that much faith in the guy given all the bruises she had received from him.

“I think it's time to find a new partner.” The thoughts had been there before but by now the voice in her head was practically screaming insults at her for not doing so sooner.

Deep in thought Jenna absently reached over and grabbed the washcloth that had been folded next to the toothbrush cup to wipe the fog off the mirror. However, when she touched the surface with the cotton fiber rag, the glassy surface did something she had never seen before; at least not outside of Mirror Space anyway.

Beneath her hand the reflective glass rippled in a way not unlike a rock being thrown into an otherwise still lake. “That’s not normal.” Her lips pursed into a thin line.

Questioning her own sanity the bluenette touched the surface again and as before it rippled just the same.

“Huh…” Jenna shook her head then hurriedly wiped her feet off on the rug. Something was wrong, she could feel it; while she, among a few others in destiny city, could pass through mirrors, they never reacted this way when not powered up and definitely not without someone of a higher rank than she.

Quickly she threw on a pair of pajama pants and a tank top and a pair of slippers then hurried back into the bathroom with her henshin pen in hand. “Please be powered up…” Although she highly doubted the possibility, it could be that this phenomenon was isolated to only the mirror in her bathroom, either way she needed to get ahold of her prince, Remarque, and tell him what just happened. Perhaps he had an explanation.

“Merkeb power, make up!” The changed happened as it always had, a warmth with a smattering of stars overlaying her civilian clothes before overtaking the outfit completely and replacing it with her uniform.

Now that she was powered up she tested the mirror once more but what happened this time left her in a state of shock and awe. Instead of meeting resistance as her gloved fingertips pressed upon the rippling surface it completely passed through. “No way-” She spoke upon a disbelieving exhale. “No way!” she repeated a little louder as she hesitantly pushed further in.

Never before had she been able to go through a mirror without someone present! Mirror walking sure but that was different; THIS was different. Caught in the moment she soon found herself climbing onto the bathroom sink and completely stepping through the doorway into a world her family could only ever imagine existed.

Once on the other side the first thing Merkep noticed, aside from the fact that she wasn’t alone, was that the room was distinctly different than the main room they always ended up in when Remarque brought her here to explore. This room was cold and arranged differently; foreign as most places they ventured often were. But like the crack in the wall it seemed like this place was calling to them again; hopefully for some that was far less dangerous than before.

Remarque listened quietly for a time, taking in the theories and questions as they arose. He nodded to a few faces when they locked eyes, and he waved to Chione and Sadalsuud when they presented him with the gesture.

He hadn’t seen Leto in some time, but if she had shown up, he figured there was probably something going on. She didn’t seem any more confident about being here than he did, though.

He put on an air though, and feigned indifference.

“Sentient or not, in whatever capacity, if Mirrorspace didn’t want us to have these I doubt it would have given them to us,” he mused. “Or, at the very least, it should have had some reaction before now.”

It had been weeks since the crystals started appearing, but he doubted everyone in the room had found them. He’d made numerous trips into Mirrorspace, and while some Senshi had found some while they were exploring, he’d not claimed more than one for himself.

He hadn’t seen that many; they had just shown up. “If anything, it gave them to us. I doubt Mirrorspace would have let us leave with them unless there was some purpose.”

Though, he still didn’t know what it could have been.

His own crystal was tucked away in a deep pocket and he didn’t bother trying to reach for it.; no one else’s seemed to be doing anything and he doubted his would have been any different. Instead, he was scanning the crown and taking in all the faces he could, and examining the room.

And listening, to whatever strange noises kept rumbling in the distance.

Lesath had been excited to see so many friendly faces and had been almost relieved to see Leto. Maybe…this wouldn’t turn out to be such a bad thing…or at least that was her thoughts until Kibirev had gone to leave and had been denied that. She should never have come here, Lesath knew that but…but her and Lovejoy did things together. She knew that too.

She had just turned to Remarque, to raise the question of if they might be stuck here when…well. When all hell decided to break loose. Her grip on Remarque’s hand tightened, and she was glad that was the only betrayal of her fear, that and the look she gave him.

What was going on now? At this rate…Mirrorspace really would end up killing them all.