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The overly annoyed look on Phact's face might have been the only answer she should have given Kai when he questioned if she had brought the book. He had been on edge for awhile and it made the senshi of doves wonder if he was this bad at home about the wedding.

Bless Lena's soul if she made it through that day without smacking him at least once.

"Oh dear I forgot the book." Phact said, rolling her eyes before she gave him a soft smile a placed a hand on his shoulder. "Calm down Kai. You aren't an having a baby. Caedus will find us if he wants to be found. If not, we try again another time." Phact knew she was strange. She didn't blame Caedus for what happened that day. She blamed themselves.

Even knowing how well the man... or... alien... could hide... it was still a little surreal to see him appear from the shadows, especially knowing the power he was capable of, and how well he could conceal that power. Still, he was happy to see him, especially not having been sure he'd actually show up. Hard to imagine he'd remember specific faces out of the crowd that night, except perhaps for the ones making threats and snide comments perhaps.

"Caedus!" Kairatos let a grin come over him, pantomiming a light, mocking cuff upside the back of Phact's head for her teasing. "It's good to see you in one piece still, how are you doing out here still?"

Although in spite of the niceties he wasn't entirely able to contain the glee when he added, in spite of his conviction to wait for niceties. "I thought you might like a look at some information we found! I might not have gone looking if it weren't for you!" And a gesture to Phact as he added. "She helped obviously."

Well 'obviously' might be a strong word, but it seemed obvious to him.

Caedus glanced between the two as they bickered; he seemed to be processing the exchange, trying to determine the intent of interaction. It didn’t seem like they were fighting, so he could only assume they were teasing. Humans had a strange way of interacting and though he was slowly getting better and understanding, it still seemed as though he had a lot to learn.

“I am in one piece,” he responded eventually; it was a decent affirmation.

His interest had been piqued; he managed to stand just a bit taller and tilt his head somewhat inquisitively. It did not seem as though he had any intent to play coy; without hesitation, he asked, “What information did you uncover?”

Phact closed her eyes for a moment as she approached Caedus, eyes still glaring holes into the back of Kai's head. Moving past him as she fished the book from her bag, the senshi made sure there was a well placed half kick to the back of the Knight's knee. Not enough to make him fall but enough to throw him off balance some.

Phact had already been flipping the book open to the first of the three marked pages. She had to hope that Caedus followed Kai's overly speeding remarks because she herself knew what was going on and felt as if there were blanks. "What Kai is getting at is the idea of being able to give energy instead of take. Some of our Transcendaned knights and senshi have shown the ability to but everyone else is a no go."

Opening the book to the first image, she flipped through them each so he could see the three groups. The first being a group in chains glaring with anger at a clearly high ranking person. The next had a group all in the same color. Some seemed to smile at the center person and others, annoyed. The third showed a mixed group, all smiling up at the center individual who now seemed to be giving off something around them.

"The statue Kai found on his wonder was like this last one. We were wondering if you happen to have ever heard of anything like energy sharing or groups like this..." She gazed down at the image and bit her lip. "Excluding courts."

"Isn't it fantastic? I mean without her digging around for the book I'd still be guessing and hoping my damn wonder would pony up some vaguely helpful memory when I could get away and spend some time there and who knows how long that could take, right?" He bobbed on the kicked leg, reaching around to deliver a light cuff upside the back of Phact's head for her troubles, with an added noise that indicated a little tone of 'cut that out'. "... I think you said you can't read it yet though right?" He added to Phact, credit to her research in a subject others had dismissed. "No Rosetta stone -yet-." He emphasized the 'yet' with a note of confidence. This woman who could find ONE book he needed in the entire damn cosmos? It'd get figured out.

...And then an added thought as he watched Caedus flip slowly through the pages.

"...Can you read it?"

'Courts' didn't ping his interest perhaps to the level which they should have. Senshi had been referring to themselves as courts for a while, for good or ill, and debating their curious relationship with knights, and the idea that there was one that had been involved in a purification had... so far... sailed neatly past like a toy sailboat riding the crest of his own excitement, though he seemed to have realized with a blink that she'd said something that had caught the strange alien's attention, he just wished he'd been more focused on her exact words than on the triumph of their find and her foot.

Though Caedus searched their faces for a moment longer, he eventually just focused on the book before him. “Unfortunately,” he said after skimming a few more pages, “This language is unknown to me. I see similarities with another language I am more familiar with, but not enough that I could be of any assistance.”

He squinted his eyes again and leaned closer to try and examine the words before finally shaking his head. “No. I am sorry. I cannot help. I have not heard of energy sharing groups. I have heard of artifacts, of magical talismans, but not people. Not mingled, like this.” He pointed to the image of the mixed group before handing the book back.

As he stood, he shifted positions; the lack of shareable information left him in a state of unease and, as if in an attempt to earn remain useful, he asked, “Do you have other questions? Perhaps I can answer them.”

"But when have you ever been known to take your time?" Phact finished, accepting the book back and if it was the most precious thing to her. Holding it close a moment longer, she slipped the old item back into the bag she carried.

"Thank you Caedus for taking a look at least. You validated to me at least that this language is unlike anything else. I have spend almost two years with it and barely made any progress outside of learning numbers." There was almost a huff from the senshi as clearly she appeared annoyed over this fact. So much time and so little to show for it...

Blinking quickly, Phact looked from Caedus towards Kai as if to say, one moment. "Before you go Caedus, I do have one more thing." It took her a second to figure out just how to word what was on her mind but, she finally came up with. "Are you sure you are alright? I mean...I know you are physically improving since everything happened but..." And now she was rambling. Inhaling slowly, the super senshi tried again.

"What I meant was is there anything we can do for you? You spent so long trapped from the world that is has to be very different from what you remember. I know I can't send you home...we..." She looked back at Kai. "Can't send you home but maybe we could do something to make your time hear easier? At least open you up to the internet and the crystal trade market?"