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The idea of trading seeds piqued Encke's interest. He would have to be careful, he didn't want to accidentally introduce anything that was invasive to the native species on Encke, but it might be cool to see if something from Methone would grow on his comet. His comet's soil didn't exactly seem the most fertile, especially considering it was a rocky comet, but it could be worth a shot...

"Yeah! I'd like that. Just need to figure out how to harvest some seeds from them," confirmed Encke, with a grin.

As Methone explained her moon's purpose, Encke continued to explore, moving towards one of the houses in the village. He seemed curious about its construction. His comet was made of spires that reminded him more of a fifties-style sci-fi. This felt more like a tropical vacation comedy movie.

Except not funny. Much prettier. Maybe a romantic movie instead?

But the whole relation to death thing wasn't exactly romantic...

"So you guys were close with Saturn then?" asked Encke, glancing over his shoulder for a moment at Methone, before glancing back at the house. He placed a hand on it, feeling the material. "Lots of Death stuff with that place, I'm noticing. But it seems like you guys did some good."

It was like vacation hospice.

"I've had memories of my comet for sure. Enough about them to figure out some things about my people. And about myself." He laughed, and with a wink added, "I was kinda a big deal."

Encke nodded in agreement at enlisting the guardian cats. Seemed like a good idea. Probably was less likely to cause any problems if they could get some help from the tech experts, at least...

Of course, he didn't exactly know many guardian cats. Presumably, the cat that had awakened him and the cat that upgraded him were around somewhere, but he had no idea where, really--

The idea of sharing a love interest with a past life was fascinating. Sounded like something like a star-crossed lovers romance, which was definitely something he had seen before. A lot of those movies were so sweet. Some of them were ... bittersweet, ultimately. Hopefully that wouldn't be the case for Methone in her current life, even if it was for her past life. "Mont Blanc of Saturn, eh? I haven't met him before, but if you like him, I'm sure he's a good person."

It hadn't taken him long to realize that Methone was, at the very least, good-hearted.

The houses were fascinating. They were a bit overgrown at the moment, but considering they both acted as greenhouses and also hadn't been inhabited for literal centuries, it made sense. He was actually surprised they looked as good as they did. Was this an effect of transcendence? Was her planet restoring itself to its original state? Or, at least, a state it was in before everyone had died off...

"Those sunstones sound super handy. Do you know what planet you got them from? Maybe some would still be there." Encke wandered away from the house, moving over to explore some of the other things in the environment. He loved this place. The background it had would take some getting used to, but he wasn't exactly inexperienced with the concept of death... And Methone was right. They were proof that death wasn't truly the end, so long as one's starseed was in tact.

He sometimes needed to remind himself of that.

"I'd love to take you to my comet! I'd love to take everyone, honestly." Encke laughed. "I love space, and I think I especially love my space."

The he was caught Encke's attention, and he turned over his shoulder for a moment with a quirked brow, but he opted not to pry. He hadn't met her even an hour ago, after all. If she wanted to explain what the was meant, she would.

Hopefully it didn't imply Mont Blanc's death, though.

He moved on as she did, as he lifted a hand to touch one of the plants. It seemed relatively harmless, anyway, and he was curious about it. "That sucks. Maybe you'll manage to run into someone who discovers some weird stones on their planet. They gotta be around somewhere." Hopefully, they weren't one of those cracked senshi types...

So the buildings were repairing themselves. Perhaps that explained why some things seemed to be shifting on his own comet, why some things seemed to be opening up, why he had even been able to get electricity flowing again. It made sense. Perhaps transcendence would make that go faster. "There's a royal married to a Saturn Knight? Huh." He knew of so few royals that he sometimes forgot that they existed. "Maybe some day our planets will catch up to theirs, eh?"

Encke wandered back over to Methone, noticing that she seemed to be beckoning him back. A small grin formed on his face. "You sure?"

If he stayed out of his home too long, Arra would worry, but sometimes, Encke got tempted to just disappear from Earth and stay in space. This was where he felt like he belonged, anyway.

He took her hand.

"But we should probably get going, yes. At least it's pretty easy to come back?"

Encke wasted no time making mental note of the other people Methone was telling him about.

In some ways, he lived in his own bubble as a senshi. Despite being a senshi for as long as he had, his connections were relatively few and far between. Any information about the other senshi who were on their side was welcomed. He was especially curious about the concept of a transcendent princess -- considering it seemed that transcendent senshi had special abilities, did a transcendent princess have even more? What was different for them that a normal princess didn't have?

Maybe if he ever ran into her, he'd ask about it. Maybe it'd help Scholomance's research, if anything.

"It's nice to hear about happiness among us," offered Encke, referencing the wedding, before she whisked them back to Earth. He continued with a, "Seems like a lot of being a senshi is a lot of doom and gloom." For obvious reasons, honestly. "But yeah! I could definitely take you to mine." He laughed, taking her phone information into his phone as he spoke. "Or we can go back to yours. Whatever. I love space."

It sounded like they were making 'take me to your place'-esque jokes, but he was okay with it. Space was involved.

He punched in his own information into her phone before handing it back to her. "You could always ring me, too. Don't have a whole lot of allies, so I probably won't be busy with much."

That sounded rather sheepish.

"But if it's space-related, won't take much to convince me to come anyway."