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The park was a fairly typical place to find Encke patrolling. It allowed him to get a run in, while at the same time looking out for any youma and agents up to anything nefarious. Seemed like a win to him.

The fact that it was so clear out was a bonus. It allowed him to look out and imagine just what was out there. Considering he had a leg up on a lot of the astronomers on Earth, considering he had actually been to space, Encke knew just how diverse those societies were. They were also fairly dead societies, from what he had seen, though he hoped the fact that Caedus existed and the fact that the Lambda Unit seemed to be of alien origin meant that more of those societies were still living than they realized.

Perhaps there was hope for their own societies yet.

Encke's Comet would be near impossible to spot at the moment, and likely impossible to spot with the naked eye, especially in these light-polluted conditions -- after all, it was barreling far away from Earth at the moment, and it really wasn't that large -- but he glanced at other stars as he ran and wondered what else there was.

Perhaps he should have been an archaeologist.

As he ran, he came across a woman who was sitting on a swing. Her outfit -- and her aura -- screamed senshi, and he slowed his pace and backed up just a bit, wondering what she was up to.

It seemed like she was looking up, too.

"Pretty night, eh?" called Encke, lifting a glowing hand and waving. He decided that he wouldn't be rude, and when he dropped his hand, he added, "I'm Encke. You patrol here often, or just came to see the view?"

Encke snickered affectionately when the senshi went from gazing up at the stars in wonder to instant embarrassment. "No need to apologize," offered Encke, putting a hand up to signal that it was nothing, before letting her continue to talk. He couldn't help laughing again when she implied she was intruding.

"I patrol here a lot, but it's not like I claim ownership to the park. You're free to patrol here, or just wonder about space here." He winked, deciding to walk a bit closer. Her statements had caught his attention immediately--she was looking out at space, for a star in particular. She must have been one of those senshi that seemed to have origins in the further reaches, one of the ones he had been pondering about before he came over here. Encke's Comet was honestly incredibly close by in comparison to some of the names he had heard over the years.

It was honestly a wonder so many of them from all over had ended up concentrated here.

"Have you ever gone to your home planet?" asked Encke, out of curiosity. She seemed less experienced than he was, so he didn't expect her to realize that the glowing on his body implied that he had a deep connection to his own comet. It definitely put him in a decent position to help her out with her home planet, though. "There's a lot of wonderful places out there. It's definitely worth at least stopping by if you haven't before."

Encke figured that stopping by once was enough to make someone want to go again and again. Even people with awful wonders or planets seemed to keep returning to them for one reason or another.

She didn't know anything about space yet, and honestly, that delighted Encke.

He could show her.

"Yeah, you can! I've gone to mine. A lot, actually." He moved to motion to the markings that surrounded his eyes, the one on his forehead, and then wiggled his fingers just for good measure. "See this glowing nonsense? It came from visiting my comet a lot." At least, he was pretty sure that was part of it, from what he had learned so far. It seemed to follow up with everything else he had been told, and it had happened on his home comet, and now he could go there more often...

He summoned his cell phone, turning it on as broke the distance between himself and the other senshi. He lifted the phone to get her attention that it was on their phone, before pointing to the center button on the phone.

"It sounds really goofy, but yeah. If you press this and think about your home planet, wherever that may be, you'll go there. You can only do it once every, uh," he squinted, trying to remember how little he could go before this happened to him, "I'd say every two weeks or so? But yeah, you'll have access to the whole planet, whatever your planet is. It's pretty damn awesome, actually-- wait."

He pulled his phone back and offered his other hand for her to shake. "Little rude, probably should introduce myself. Encke. You?"

The blush caught his attention, and for a moment, Encke worried he had done something wrong. But she recovered fairly quickly, and it was with some relief he shook her hand. Last thing he wanted to do was alienate her.

Space was exciting though, okay?

"Sinistra? That's a pretty name," offered Encke, with a grin. "But yeah, no problem! I love space, honestly. I'll explain space to everyone." Even their enemies, probably. If they weren't doing anything dangerous. And showed interest. And maybe if he could use it as leverage to get them to purify. That was a lot of conditions. Could he use space as leverage, though? It seemed like it might be a handy way to convince--

What was he doing he was talking to Sinistra.

"Yup, just press the button. I know, it seems like a joke, but magic, right?" He pulled his phone back out, just to point out the center button again. "We can actually breathe and survive in space without any space suits or anything like that. I suspect the magic of our planets or what have you actually protects us. Probably because we used to live there, in a past life..."

He swatted at the air at this, almost dismissive of that point. The important part was that they could go to space and even restore these past worlds. Still, he saw her expression, and heard her tone. "It probably seems like I'm bullshitting you. I could show you, if you'd like."

He paused.

"Or you can give it a try."

"You'll likely find the remnants of some past society on yours," offered Encke, with a small chuckle, wondering if she was getting the gravity of what he was suggesting, "but we can go to mine today, if you'd like. At the very least, it'll give you an idea of what to expect."

He paused, thought about what he just said for a moment, and then added, "Though every planet is different."

Just the few places he had been to in space other than his comet showed him that every location had a completely different feel to it. It made a lot of sense; if Earth was as diverse as it was, he could only start to imagine how diverse space was. His own comet seemed like it came out of a sci-fi movie, though a sci-fi movie made before they understood just how far technology could go.

And yet he had seen things on his comet that resembled far more modern times.

He offered his hand to her, and with a chuckle, remarked, "The only thing is you'll need to hold my hand for this."

The poor girl seemed almost frightened, and Encke honestly felt bad; there was a part of him that wanted to back off and say it was alright, they could wait for another day, when she was more ready for it, but she did ultimately end up taking his hand.

That came as some relief, admittedly, mostly because Encke liked showing space.

There had been a time in his life where any contact from anyone had terrified him, even if he had managed to heal enough where contact was no longer an issue. He understood her hesitance to it and resolved not to hang onto her hand any longer than he had to. "Alright." He shot her a grin, before turning his attention back to his phone and pressing the button with his free hand. There was perhaps a few seconds before they were wisked away across the galaxy.

Or, at the very least, across the Solar System.

The first thing Sinistra may have noticed was the much higher amount of stars in the sky above them. While the new presence of electricity meant that the sky was no longer entirely not light polluted, it was less light polluted than any place on Earth may have been. Close observations may have allowed Sinistra to notice that the stars in the sky seemed to actively be moving. mostly because they were technically on an object that was hurdling through space.

Encke let go of her hand at the earliest opportunity.

"This is Encke's Comet," offered Encke, with a laugh.

If Sinistra took the chance to look around, they were clearly in the repaired remnants of what was once a bustling city. There wasn't anyone there anymore, not anyone but them, but the nearby grand buildings with spires coming off the top hinted that there definitely were once people here. There were currently some plants here, though. Sprouting up near the repaired stone path they stood on were some glowing bulbous plants, along with another plant that looked more like a grass of sorts.

Most of the ground not covered with plants, buildings and structures, and repaired stone paths was grey stone, perhaps something a little more expected of a comet.

Encke watched her, a little concerned that she seemed to be breathing really fast. Like ... really fast. Was she having a panic attack? Hyperventilating? Had he made a mistake by bringing her here? He hoped not, space was amazing but she seemed to be a bit more of a nervous or skeptical--

His thoughts cut off when Sinistra suddenly started talking again, and the grin came back to his face almost immediately. She seemed so excited, and that only fed into his own excitement. Not only was she fine, she was thrilled, which made Encke more thrilled, because he loved being on his comet in the first place, but being able to share that with someone else, to introduce that to someone else?

"Yes, this is my homeworld! I tend to call it my homecomet, actually." Encke spun around for a moment with his arms spread out as a way of displaying just how much of this existed. "Thank you! I'm amazed by it too, honestly. More amazed by it every day. Can you believe that this is just all out here, for us to discover? That a society existed here, on a comet?"

To him, it made sense. He had the memories, he had the physical proof, he had the paintings on the walls and the functioning machinery and the electricity flying through the air -- but from the standpoint of a human on Earth, it was mind-blowing, even though he had long been familiar with it. He remembered how stunned he had been when he first learned about space, and it was great to see other people just as excited about it as he was.

He hoped to make everyone just as excited about their homes.

Encke glanced over to one of the bulbs, before squatting down to take a closer look at it. As he looked over it, the bulb's luminescence added an extra glow to his palms. "I actually don't know if it can grow on Earth, but if I can find a way to let it grow in a way that might not harm local plants, I'd love to find out." He shot a grin up in her direction. "My memories tell me there used to be animals here, people too, but," he frowned, "I know there's no people here but us, animals I haven't seen much sign of," though he supposed there may be some around somewhere...

"But plants we have for sure. And electricity! Can you see the lights coming out of some of the buildings?"

He stood up, pointing out the lights streaming from one of the nearby buildings in particular. The particular grandness of that building, with the tallest spire in the area reaching up to the sky, located at the center of several other buildings, hinted at its importance. "It's pretty wild, eh?"

Admittedly, he was very proud of the electricity.