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Encke had heard that there may have been corrupted guardian cats before, but he had admittedly never run into one of them. It sounded like Pendour had, especially considering the ... bite mark? She had on her arm. He supposed they weren't all on the same side, then. It was unfortunate to have confirmation on that, and he replied, "Well, hopefully we're mostly all on the same side."

"If you take the bones here," offered Encke, with a quiet chuckle, "watch out for looking suspicious." She would, after all, be carrying around human bones. ...Were they even human bones? If she was from Neptune, were Neptunians distinctly different from humans? Considering they lived on such a watery planet, he presumed they had to be. Plus, Enckeans seemed to be distinctly different from humans, especially considering their bioluminescence.

"Saturn seems to have a lot of," was there a nice way to say it? Not really, "death-related wonders. Maybe one of their knights would be willing to help? Or a senshi that has a lot of death things on their planet."

Encke had no idea how Enckeans buried their dead, so he avoided offering to necessarily help with a location for the bones for the moment.

Asking him if it was acceptable to personalize her world drew another laugh from Encke, grinning. "I'd say it is! It's your wonder, right? If you personalize it, that'll make it even more yours." He seemed to like the idea of beanbag chairs, admittedly, and his grin widened further at the thought. "You could make it a nice relaxing place, eh? Perhaps even a place where you could hold some meetings or just hang out, away from," he swatted his hand in the air, "this."

Encke offered a sheepish smile when she looked down at herself. He admittedly hated that some of the media insisted on generalizing them all as terrorists--there was clearly a difference, thanks--but he couldn't necessarily blame them for doing so considering the Negaverse.

And even, to some extent, the Dark Mirror Senshi.

That wasn't the point though -- last thing they needed was for Pendour to manage to get herself arrested just for looking suspicious... He opened his mouth to reply, but then she was awkwardly shifting a bit, and he had the sense that she was probably about to ask him something, so he closed his mouth and waited. He should have expected the not direct but obviously intended to be question relating to being able to store ... bones on his planet, and he hmm'd quietly as he thought about it.

Then, he responded, "I admittedly haven't exactly found a crypt yet," not that he had been looking, "but a comet is a big place. If I find a place that seems suitable?"

There had to be something somewhere to give the past ... Pendourians? a place to rest, right?

With a grin though, he added, "But either way, I would also love to come up and relax. Besides for the bone problem, it sounds like a gorgeous place, honestly." And it was space. He had been fascinated by everything from Methone's moon to Scholomance's wonder. She could have told him it was dripping with tar and he would have still wanted to go... probably.

Encke shook his head when she seemed to be withdrawing her question, offering a small smile. "No, it's okay. If I can find something, I'll let you know."

Having to figure out where to bury a bunch of remains wasn't exactly a problem he would wish on his worst enemy. (Admittedly, he partially wouldn't wish that on his worst enemy because that would imply that there were a lot of people dead. Possibly caused by his worst enemy. Eek.) He especially wouldn't wish it on someone who seemed as sweet as Pendour did.

If he could figure out some way to help out, he would certainly try.

When she was inspecting her signet ring, he immediately though of when Scholomance contacted him via his own ring. "Yeah! I talked to Scholomance through his, once. Came up on my phone," he pulled his phone out accordingly, showing it to her, "like a video chat. Not sure how he did it exactly but his ring seemed pretty high tech. I assume a lot of them are."

Was hers?

"I don't know everything about knight rings but," he laughed, "we can definitely contact each other. Maybe I can send a text to you or something?"

How would he do that? Hm...

It seemed she didn't know how to do whatever Scholomance had done to speak to him like he had either. He supposed that made sense, Pendour was a fairly new knight. Since she knew Scholomance, though, maybe she could just ask him about it later and for now, paper letters would work, he supposed, though he wasn't sure if she would get his texts back--

Wait.

Seeing her dehenshin into something distinctly not a knight made his heart stop for a moment, even if he kept his facial expression genial. Her thought was that they should communicate as civilians. As civilians. He was still trying to keep his civilian life away from his powered life, and while there were, at most, a couple people who were aware of who he was in his civilian life, the concept of telling more people about who he was didn't sit the best with him.

Especially since this involved exchanging numbers, and he couldn't just put, 'Pendour, Knight of Neptune,' on his phone. That would give him away if anyone stole his phone, and also her as well. And what would Richard think, if he saw that contact, what would he assume--

Calm down, Encke.

It wasn't a big deal, and this was likely the most efficient way to contact her. Perhaps he should just ask her what her civilian name was. That would solve that problem, at least, and none would be the wiser, right? She would know who he was, but it wasn't that big of a deal.

He ran a hand through his hair to help center himself a bit more before finally dehenshining. That probably took way too long. Once he stood there as the actor Ignacio Araya, he shot an apologetic smile and said, "Ah, sorry, kinda zoned out for a second. Long day, eh?"

His senshi phone was no longer the phone he pulled out of his pocket, instead holding a fairly average, albeit nice, phone. He threw his phone onto the new contact screen and offered the phone to her. "I can input my information into your phone too. Name's Ignacio, by the way. Probably makes the most sense to use our normal names for this..."

At least she didn't seem to mind. Or notice. Ignacio sheepishly replied with a, "Nah, I'm not tired of anything," with a small laugh. To get his mind off his own nerves, he went ahead and grabbed her phone, punching in his information appropriately.

Her first comment about her parents being into names like that made him curious if her parents happened to be Spanish like his father was, but her second comment changed that. "Sarandon?" That definitely didn't sound remotely Spanish. He wasn't sure what the origin of that was. Maybe he'd ask. "I can see why you go by Sadie, haha, but Sarandon is a definitely a cool name. Unusual. I like yours, too."

He was admittedly relieved she was going to use Sadie, though. That was a bit easier than Sarandon.

His name was entered as Ignacio Araya, and he added a phone number as well as a instant messenger contact if that happened to be more convenient for her. He also took a quick selfie and added it as a contact image, because admittedly it was always easier for him to remember who exactly was in his phone if he had a face to go with them, and he liked to offer the same courtesy. After all, as an actor, he tended to have a lot of contacts. Once he took his own phone back, he handed that off to her.

"Do you mind if I?" Ignacio held up his phone, suggesting perhaps taking a quick photo of her in turn. He kept the conversation flowing in general, though, continuing with a, "Yeah! Maybe we can pretend we're setting up like, cafe outings or something. Seems innocent enough. But we're actually going to space."

He laughed.

"Or I guess we can actually go to a cafe if you want, too. That works for me."

Ignacio didn't really want to mix his civilian life with his senshi life, and the concept of it made him panic, especially considering that Richard was already too close, but seeing as the mixing technically had already happened, he wouldn't reject mixing them further...

He didn't exactly know a lot of people that knew both sides of him.

Ignacio chuckled. Sarandon Avamir definitely qualified as an abnormal name, but he liked abnormal names. When they were younger, sometimes they drew teasing, but when one was older, having a unique name was a nice way to draw attention to oneself...

"Hey, not normal isn't a bad thing. Don't think any of us are, really," replied Ignacio, with a wink, as he held up his phone and took a picture of her most excellent practiced pose. He quickly entered it into his phone as her contact photo, before he forgot, and then forgot who 'Sadie Avamir' was. Of course, he wasn't likely to forget the full name Sarandon any time soon... "But yeah, my name is Spanish. Father's Spanish." He was tempted to call him something much more obscene than father, but Sadie had no real need to know about Ignacio's family issues, and he didn't want to make things awkward. Instead, he opted to add, "Spaniard, from Spain."

He tucked his phone into his pocket once the contact was fully set up, and he shifted, nodding in thought with her other suggestions. He liked the idea of a picnic, admittedly. Methone had proposed similar when she mentioned the idea of them going to her moon and going to his comet. "Space gets more accessible the more you go up in level," offered Encke, with a grin, in case she didn't know. "Sounds kinda video gamey, but I've heard most Eternals can go up once a week? Knight, for you guys." He paused, before adding, "And I can go approximately once every three days or so. Transcendence thing.

"But yeah, it's not accessible all the time, so if we just want to vaguely chatter space or anything else, a cafe would definitely work. And I love the idea of a picnic in space!"

Honestly, her wonder, except for the bones problem, sounded like it would be a really pretty place for a picnic. He was in.

"Hopefully, we can do that soon?"

Weird in more of a Sadie way seemed to suit her, and Ignacio shot her a grin when she said that.

He thought he was weird in a more Ignacio way, perhaps even an Ig way, but the world would be considerably more boring if everyone was just weird in the same way, too...

"Ah, las cerezas," replied Ignacio, to the comment of the cherries, with a laugh. "Admittedly, I've never actually had a fresh cherry in Spain, but I've heard they're amazing. Relatives said they are, anyway." He had actually never been to Spain, period, and in some ways, bitterness towards his father and his father's family had made him never want to visit the entirety of the country. Over the years, the anger had lessened, though not at them; perhaps some day he would actually visit.

For the moment, though, he was more interested in visiting every place he could off the planet.

"But, anyway," he shot her a grin. "Space picnic it is."