Backdated to yesterday but using cooldown starting today.

Sadachbia was getting tired of waiting. Megrez kept being busy patrolling or preparing for college (college! COLLEGE! Unbelievable that she was going into college), leaving Sadachbia on her own for the most part. At this point, it seemed like if she kept waiting, she would never get to go to her homeworld. Tonight she caved in and decided that she was going by herself.

After finding a nice nook (a nook that could just as easily host Negaversers, she noted), she pressed the planet transfer icon on her phone and focused as she had been told to do. For a moment, she thought she heard a faint drumbeat from somewhere, but she was lurched across the universe before she could focus upon it too strongly.

When the world came back into focus, the first thing she was aware of was the heat. A powerful dry heat swept over her, one that felt very different from a Destiny City summer. A desert expanse spread out before her, with a damaged road in front of her. She should not have been terribly surprised to see that the road led to a small pyramid, but she was. In any case, she felt a powerful certainty that this was her world. What else could it be? She was the Egyptian-looking senshi with the mummy bandages and the ankh for a brooch.

Seeing nowhere else of note to go, Sadachbia entered the pyramid. She only made it a few steps in before she heard a woman’s deep voice from behind her.

“In the front will be the prayer area. In the back will be the important artifacts.”

When she turned around, there was a tall woman with nearly black skin and hair and golden eyes addressing a man with a scroll. Most importantly, the woman wore Sadachbia’s fuku, the same down to the positioning of the bandages. The conclusion was obvious: she was watching her past self do official business in her first-ever past life vision. When she got excited and attempted to approach her past self for a better view, the senshi and the man she was with vanished.

That’s all? Bummer. Sadachbia turned back around to face the inside of the building. The room opened up into a sizable chamber with little nooks in the walls; most of the nooks had statues in varying states of disrepair (including one that, disturbingly enough, was missing its head completely). Were those the gods and goddesses we worshipped back then?

Towards the back of the room was an opening where a door had been ripped completely off its hinges. Sadachbia guessed that it must have lead to where the important artifacts her past self had mentioned were. She walked across the room and through the door into what appeared to be a nondescript hallway. A few more steps, and one creak was the only warning she got before she crashed through the floor with a yelp. The pit wasn’t especially deep, though a short person without senshi jumping power might have a little trouble getting out without some help.

Grumbling, Sadachbia jumped out of the pit and dusted herself off. Looking at the pit from above, something seemed excessively consistent about the shape of the pit (and something was also suspicious about the fact that there was a hole in the ground on the first floor). These must have been pit traps to keep people from taking the artifacts. She stepped forward cautiously, then to the right side. Her plan to avoid traps that were presumably in the center of the hallway backfired miserably when she crashed through the floor yet again, faceplanting on the bottom of the pit.

When she picked her head up and rubbed the dirt off her face, she saw her past self hunched over in front of some mechanical gizmo. Now that she was closer, Sadachbia could see that her past self kept her long hair in numerous braids. “If anyone falls through here, the alarms will go off,” she said. “Security is very important, particularly for our artifacts.”

With that, her past self disappeared once more, leaving Sadachbia alone in the bottom of the pit. She jumped out of it and stared down the hallway. Maybe the pits alternate center-side-center? To test her theory, she walked down the center for a few steps, then went to the left side of the hallway. To her surprise and relief, she didn’t fall through another pit. As she minded her steps, she wondered about the alarm system that her past self seemed to be installing. There must have been some measure of advanced technology and engineering on planet Sadachbia in order for such things to be in place. The alarm system had clearly deteriorated to uselessness over the thousand-year gap.

Eventually, she reached a door at the end of the hallway, laying on its side in front of the door frame it used to be attached to. On the other side of the door lay a single dart, presumably another trap to deter people who somehow made it past the pits. With neither barrier nor trap to block her, Sadachbia sauntered right into the room. There were altars and pedestals in the room, but nothing was placed on them. Everything bore some form of damage. The artifacts must have been stolen ages ago, she noted to herself with much chagrin.

There was no other way to go, so Sadachbia went back through the hallway (only falling into one more pit along the way) and back into the prayer room. She waited for some sign of what kinds of worship once went on there, but nothing came. Disappointed, she walked over to examine the different statues. There appeared to be a few more women than men; all bore serene expressions, with their palms facing up, as though meditating or perhaps waiting for an offering. The headless goddess statue still disturbed her. The break was oddly clean, as though the head had been sliced off. Who would cut off a goddess’s head and run off with it?

Sighing and wiping some sweat off her brow (she had forgotten the heat in all her exploration; why didn’t it occur to her to bring water?), Sadachbia stepped through the exit and took another look at the building’s surroundings. There were some other buildings visible a little ways off; it would take some time to get there, if not too much. Under other circumstances, she would have gone to explore, but something like that needed a whole day to investigate. It would have to wait till another time.

When Sadachbia got back to Earth, the first thing she did was text Megrez with her senshi phone.

Went to my planet, found a temple. Lots of traps! Wish you could have been there!!

No response came for the five minutes that she was willing to stand around for. Luca must have been busy, or perhaps asleep. With a heavy exhale, Sadachbia powered back down into Kayla and headed for home, the sights of the Sadachbian temple tickling her mind.

[Sadachbia went to her planet on August 26th. She can return on September 16th.