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Lepus' first trip to her homeworld with Onnie and Etoile had resulted in them discovering the temple of Lepus and a picture book, which Lepus had taken home with her, purportedly telling the story of the very first senshi of rabbits. It had been a somewhat disappointing First Official Trip Into Space- there had been no ghosts or ghouls, no dead bodies, no haunted manors to visit. All of Lepus' expectations of her homeworld had turned into a massive letdown, and the preteen was almost discouraged to try again.

At the same time, Lepus wanted to find out more about the temple, and about this supposed first Sailor Lepus, as well as herself, the last Sailor Lepus. What kind of person was she? Did she know Onnie and Megumi back then as well? She and Etoile were content to refer to themselves as bonded senshi and cat, but Lepus hadn't discovered any hints about Etoile truly being hers.

After meeting Scylla and their talk, Lepus decided she wanted to try again, and this time invited the older woman along. It was mostly just for the sake of being nice, but Lepus also suspected that Scylla would want to keep an eye on her and Etoile, and so she had extended the invite to the senshi of kraken as a means of killing two birds with one stone- Lepus would have an extra pair of eyes to help search for any clues as to her past, and Scylla would be able to keep the chibi and kitten out of trouble... maybe.

Waiting in the park where they first met, Lepus sat on a bench, playing some music on her phone while she waited for Scylla to arrive. She had brought the picture book she had found last time with her, as well as extra snacks for Etoile, because Etoile was never truly full and very well may have possessed a black hole for a stomach, with the amount of candy she fed the kitten daily. Hopefully this wouldn't take long- Lepus was pretty certain that if her mother ever caught her out this late, she'd be grounded for life, if not shipped off to some foreign boarding school where Etoile wouldn't be able to follow.

(And who would take care of Etoi then?)

Lepus had half-expected Scylla to bail on them, and to not show up, and indeed, she had been about to give up on waiting and go ahead without the eternal when finally, the older senshi showed up. Pausing the song currently playing on her phone, Lepus stood up from where she had been sitting on the bench, raising a hand in greeting.

"Oh, no, we weren't waiting long," Lepus said, "... Or at least, not super long?"

She declined to mention that she had been about to go on her own, and instead, eyed the duffel bag curiously.

"I've only been to Lepus once so far- with Onnie- sssoooo... I can't tell you too much, but I can tell you what we found so far," the chibi continued, "Or, I mean, well, I can either fill you in now, or when we get there?"

"We found a book last time!" Etoile added cheerfully, "It doesn't have a lot of text as much as pictures, though... Lepus thinks it tells the story of the first Sailor Lepus!"

Lepus offered no insight as to how she came to that conclusion, and instead picked up the bunny backpack she had brought with her. "Ready?"

"Sure, we'll talk when we get there," Lepus said, and, after some pause, opted for linking arms with Scylla, while Etoile sat perched atop the girl's shoulder, a friendly enough level of contact that wasn't quite as awkward as handholding, because she didn't know how the older woman felt about that. Or was it just that Lepus wasn't sure how she herself felt about handholding?

(Really, it was maybe just that she wanted to be seen as not a child.)

"Okay, so here we go!" the chibi senshi declared, holding out her phone, and, pressing the button she had pressed last time, she concentrated on the island temple of Lepus she had visited with Onnie last time. In no time at all, they arrived, to the temple that sat in the middle of an island, surrounded by water. It looked no different from the last time she had visited, though it wasn't really like Lepus knew what she expected.

"So... here we are."

"What do I remember? Not much," Lepus said, after some thought on the matter. She seemed happy enough that Scylla seemed to admire her world, compared to Onnie, who had kept sneezing at all the dust, and it was perhaps that that led her to go on in further detail.

"I remember the book, the one I found last time? I remember being given it- because it was supposed to explain why I got 'chosen' to be Lepus," she explained, referencing the picture book she had been talking about earlier, "Though according to the book, the first Lepus was supposedly some rabbit that got turned into a person, so I'm not really sure how it adds up."

"Anyway, I think they gave it to me because I wasn't from Lepus, but actually another world, so it was supposed to be easier for me to understand- I think that's what they said."

In the memory, she had been younger than she had been when Pippin had awakened her nearly four years ago, so Lepus suspected that had something to do with that as well. Still, she was at a loss as to where she was really from, if she was supposedly not a native to this world.

Where was she from? Lepus wasn't too terribly certain, herself, with this being only her second trip to her world (or, to be technical, the world whose senshi she was). If she stopped and thought about it, though, she could almost picture...

A workshop (atelier) filled with flowers, sitting in the middle of a large field, also filled with flowers. The workshop was miles away from the nearest village, but people still came from all over A small walkway connected to a bridge crossing the river nearby, which led to the workshop's entrance; outside, a simple sign hung by the doorway- 'Atelier Annabelle', it read, but people more commonly knew the owner by an entirely different name...

"-Eriphyla," Lepus concluded, frowning; it was both an unfamiliar and familiar name at the same time, and she wasn't yet certain of what her connection was to this 'Annabelle' person, but she had her suspicions. "Eriphyla is the world I'm from, I think?"

"Oh, and sure- you can borrow the book whenever you want," the girl added, "You can borrow it when we get back, even, if you want."

"I dunno much about it, either," Lepus said, shrugging, "I just remember a workshop full of flowers, and the sign outside."

She supposed she would have to do a lot of digging around, to find out if there was a Sailor Eriphyla in the present, to ask them what they knew about the past, if anything at all, but she could dwell on that thought later. Instead, Lepus made a bit of a face as she contemplated Scylla's words, thinking about things.

"It would be nice to have a secret hideout..." she mused aloud; certainly, a place away from home, where she wouldn't be bothered by her mom or baddies was a very alluring concept. "It'd be a lot of work to clean up around here, though."

And while Lepus wasn't exactly a slacker like a certain friend of hers was, she was still only just one person. Still, it was something to think about.

"But oh- yeah, we can go inside," Lepus finally said, realizing Scylla had suggested they head inside the temple, "We didn't manage to fully explore the place last time- me and Onnie- I hope we can find something cool this time."

"Oh, yes!" Etoile said cheerfully, as the trio made their way to the temple entrance. She had kept quiet until now, possibly counting down the hours (minutes) until it was snack time, as was her nature. "We'll find plenty of neat things."

What was that word again? Space archaeologists? Pioneers? She couldn't remember. Continuing to oversee things from her perch atop Lepus' shoulder, the little cat was content to quietly continue tagging along for now, having been lured by the promise of snacks into tagging along in the first place.

Reaching the temple entrance, Lepus slowly pushed open the heavy doors; she had yet to think of the idea of propping open the doors... or maybe it was simply that she didn't know her own world's weather patterns enough yet to want to leave it open. Who knew what could happen, that could ruin the whole space archaeologist thing?

"So does that mean you'll help?" the girl asked, suddenly eager to know, "Because I will totally take you back here whenever you want, whenever I can, if so."

Where should they start first? Lepus contemplated that for a second, as she thought about what little she had uncovered her first go around. Realistically, the small senshi knew that there was no way she'd discover everything all at once, but it would have been nice to discover a map or some blueprints like how exploring abandoned (and maybe hopefully haunted) temples went in videogames.

(And, well, dungeons in general.)

"I dunno," Lepus admitted with a shrug, "There's a lot of rooms we haven't checked out yet- there's like, stairs going up and down, too? I already checked out the, like, church part? We could check out the rooms behind it?"