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The evidence was pointing to this one being another senshi, but although she wore black, something about her uniform looked different from Gabriella's. For a few seconds, she didn't answer the question about what she was.

Everyone was confused about that. She wondered if she needed to start wearing a sign on her clothing to make things easier. It would have to explain things simply, though, say something like, I am an alien, and Naeria did not really think of herself as an alien. She was a visitor, a traveler.

Instead of speaking, she analyzed the situation. She didn't have the cracks in her skin, or the unnaturally long hair, or the bat wings on her outfit. Naeria wondered what she would be feeling right now if she had the sixth sense of a senshi.

"You are a senshi," she said. "That is how your clothes are. Me?" She looked down at her uniform proudly. "I am Velencyan."

"We are from Velencya. It is another world," Naeria explained, matter of fact. "We are visiting. Researching."

There was more to the story, but she did not know if it would be wise to share it with a stranger. Instead she stared at the outstretched hand. She kept staring for several long seconds before she remembered. Yes. The Earth ritual.

She clasped the hand with her own and gave it a quick shake, trying to be polite, although she did not understand the practice of making physical contact with strangers.

"I know some about the conflict here, but not about the Dark Mirror," she admitted. There was the Negaverse, and the White Moon, but of course there was more to Earth that she learned about every day. More sources of magic would not be that surprising.

"My name is Naeria."

With that, the ritual was complete.

Naeria was used to people being confused by her, but she still stiffened a little at the laugh. "No," was all she managed, in response. The more people did not understand her, the more likely they were to attack her, and while Naeria was curious about Leona, she was not completely convinced she was not dangerous.

Although, she stared at the crystal she produced all the same.

Islands inside of mirrors? Any mirrors?

There were mirrors on Velencya. That could be an easy way to access resources, if they were able to find a way to access the technology or magic that these senshi had.

It was a first thought, something that would take considerably more research to put any feet on. The first of that research would be making sure that she was not about to be attacked.

So, she asked the first questions that came to mind.

"Does the mirror island have mushrooms?"

It was a real question. Naeria waited patiently, her owlish yellow eyes watching Leona's face for any hint of an answer. She just looked confused again.

She did not know.

However, she was offering Naeria a chance to come and see this space beyond the mirror for herself, and Naeria could not help the way her mouth opened slightly, or the way her eyes widened.

"Yes," she breathed.

Tomorrow seemed so far away, but that would give her time to make sure someone knew where she was going, in case something went well.

She just found herself nodding, again and again. I have many mushrooms. I will bring some. This sounds fascinating."

The words came slowly, but she managed, "We will see this together."