The Eternal Sanctum (Holy Knight Headquarters)

[Bloodedge]

"I doubt there would be much learning to it," Ailen stated. "I believe it is mostly information I've already shared with you, just applied as theory. That is... unless I missed some details in that lecture. I suppose that is always possible; I seemed to have developed a habit of hopping around mentally whilst trying to teach. There are some decoctions I could take before lessons to make that less of an issue," the elf rambled.

Charlemagne spoke of some 'angel' in regards to discovering Jeanne's whereabouts. How strange; she once spoke of angels for quite some time. "Angel?" Siegfried questioned. "Yeah. I unlocked some sort of Skill yesterday that lets me uh... sorta acquire Skills at the highest possible rank. I'm not sure what the limitations are, but I got Jeanne's connection to the angels," Charlemagne explained. Though that alone was strange, Siegfried took note of Sakura's words as well. She, too, met Jeanne within the Nexus? He wasn't aware others could be brought along. "And how is it you were there? I don't recognize you or a few of the others; I'd like to know who you are."

Meanwhile, Charlemagne was answered by that same voice he heard within the Nexus. According to her, he should have been busy by now. How ridiculous. 'It's not like I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs, is it? This is busy! Anyway, I want to know if you have any idea where Jeanne is right now... and why you don't seem surprised at all that I'm calling again.'

[Apollymi]

Ailen had much to say concerning the potential of learning this new form of potion. According to him, Anais probably wouldn't need to do much learning just applying her learned knowledge to practice. This was all contingent on the fact that he hadn't actually skipped something during the lessons he'd given. He claimed to have developed a habit of hopping around mentally. He claimed he could take something for that, but... "Iia, Shishou, I don't really mind learning in a more random fashion. Besides I count myself as still learning until I am sure I can do something, whether I understand fully how to do it or not," Anais mentioned. Of course, this didn't seem that odd, to anyone else, except Yume. Yume who heard this conversation and completely understood it and was now sitting sideways staring a hole into the side of Anais's face. "Oh, must be all that exploring... or did you finally find another teacher as full of wayward questions as you?~" Yume asked. "Obviously, you found one as invasive as you!" was the snap. They had previously been in different grades, but Iino Miko was well known for being ever so slightly disruptive when she had a burning or line of questions on her mind. This added with the knowledge of how the girl was 'learning' now, made it a point worth teasing and she watched as Anais's face turned a bright shade of red. "There you are~ " Yume mused seeming to find this easily flustered version of the girl to be more normal.

But the conversation would move on, as it always did. And at this point, Charles was explaining that he had the ability to gain skills from others and gained in seeing Jeanne her ability to connect to the Angels. The explanation itself was a bit open-ended but he seemed to cover the basics. Beyond that Siegfried didn't recognize a few people in this group and wanted to understand how Sakura had been within the Nexus enough to meet Jeanne and who she was. Sakura had no human sense of what could or could not be outlandish to say. She also had no direct desire to hide her understanding of anything so she spoke the truth. "I'm Tohsaka Sakura. My mother is the goddess of Arcane Wisdom and she presides over Munetsuchi were Char-kun and his friends fell. I cleansed Char-kun's grail... and made a different one of my own in the process. Because I cleansed it and I was there when he went the first time and we are connected by the soul. I can go where he goes and the same applies in reverse," she explained of the situation and her being.

There was an interesting conversation happening between Charles and the Angel within his mind once more. And to the angel's credit she seemed to be in quite the good mood. 'Oh? What an interesting change in attitude~' the voice said seeming to find it amusing but she wasn't really judging, far from it in fact. 'I know exactly where Jeanne is... there are very few things that could keep me from knowing that information,' mentioned the voice, as for the lack of her surprise at the ringing of her there were two possible answers. 'Well, I am not surprised. I left the link open on purpose...' she stated rather clearly, leaving out the fact that she was also clairvoyant to more than a small percentage.

[Bloodedge]

"Hmm. That is an excellent way to view the situation, I must agree. Learning is something that never truly stops. Even the foremost expert of something may one day discover a better way of utilizing their knowledge. Wisdom is infinite, after all," Ailen rambled further. With that, there was an odd exchange between Anais and the apprentice of Mugen. It was obvious they were comrades of some sort long before meeting in Munetsuchi. Their relationship seemed rather interesting. "You have such a powerful chemistry between you. Once again, it seems he was right about the next generation," the elf observed in no real detail.

Sakura was quite the mystery to Siegfried, but not for long. He expressed his curiosity in a direct manner, and she answered... somehow in an even more straightforward way. This girl seemed incredibly blunt to be one of Charlemagne's associates, but ah, she was the child of a goddess living in the lower world. Their meeting had presumably been a very recent one which involved being bound to Charlemagne by their very souls. "So it wasn't a simple intrusion that let you in. Understood. I thought there would be another matter, not that you two were... connected," he said, refraining from assuming the nature of their link.

All the while, there was a discussion happening in Charlemagne's mind. The angel noted his change in attitude, as people kept pointing out. Once more, he couldn't see it the same way; it was a natural development based on everything happening constantly around him. Whatever the case, the angel knew of Jeanne's location. 'Alright, so where is she?' he asked. There also existed the information that this angel kept herself connected to him, for whatever reason she had. 'So you're, what, a stalker angel? You're probably not going to get anything from being connected to me. I don't plan on keeping this Skill either.'

[Apollymi]

Ailen was an elf of rambling words and quips. "Hai!" Anais mentioned seemingly pleased. Yume paid him a decent amount of attention knowing that he was in the rotation of mentors she'd eventually encounter and knowing that Anais was his apprentice. The truth of that information let her eventually shift her staring eyes away from the girl to take a real look at the elf. Now that she was thinking about it and actively doing so... this man was exactly the type the girl would like. Ridiculously tall, good-looking, clever with a gentle demeanor. Actually, she had a strange mental image of the short girl she knew, bossing this man around and it made her chuckle. "That's great! Wisdom is infinite... I like that~" she mused softly. "Oh and while you're already this way... I should mention that I may or may not have accidentally mentioned your middle school reign of terror aloud so... that Bird Emperor may or may not be really excited to speak with you~" she added knowing that this would both soften the blow and strengthen it quite a bit. "Of course he's right and she and I go way back, also I haven't forgotten you didn't answer my question," she mentioned once more still unhappy with the lack of answer concerning the girl's secret boyfriend. "Why? Why would you do that?! I was under the radar. I could have lived my whole life with no one ever knowing about that!" Anais mentioned seemingly more embarrassed. She wanted to die. No... too extreme she wanted to bury herself beneath her hood and disappear into the floor.

Meanwhile, it seemed that Sakura's bluntness had gotten Siegfried the answers he wanted but that he'd also simply left his curiosities at that. It was odd to Sakura but she didn't find anything wrong with the way she'd phrased her statements. "Iia, i wasn't intruding, I went along..." she said, still her head tilted to the left as she considered the way he spoke. Was he also not talking about something? Hm, well there wasn't anything particularly strange about this humans seemed to not think about things the way way as everyone else. And this man was a dragon and though the dragon probably didn't think in such a withdrawn manner perhaps he wasn't whole yet? "Oh, wait... you did something interesting before but Char-kun stopped it... what was that you were trying to do?" she asked referring to the moment he'd tried to revert his quickly approaching dragon transformation.

At the same time, the conversation Charles was having with the angel in his head was both long and short. It seemed that she'd not immediately answered his question leading him to ask it in a much more direct manner. 'Right just now, she is on the 10th floor of what will eventually be known as the Tower of Babel,' she explained. Ah, but what was this? He asked if she was a stalker angel? And claimed that he would not be keeping the skill that left her linked to him. 'I think you would be surprised at the information someone like me might find useful,' she claimed while chuckling. 'Also you already let me in, you keeping the skill is irrelevant,' she mentioned with something bordering amusement. 'I do not aim to harass or persecute, nor are my thoughts surrounding you... obsessive,' she spoke those words very carefully.

[Bloodedge]

The eyes of Anais's peer were eventually set upon Ailen, as if to appraise him. He knew not the reason for this, but that made little difference. In truth, her being on this journey was a bonus to his own attendance. He was going to be delivering lessons to her as well, so it was best that they become acquainted at some point. She seemed more than learned enough for a first day, so he could consider her an official student of the Myouou as a whole. Qin was also brought into the conversation as one who had a particular interest in Anais's past, as new information had been presented. "I've just come to realize there is another learning opportunity here," he mumbled to himself.

There was no intrusion on Sakura's part. Siegfried had been wondering if there was some sort of workaround to entering the Nexus, but that was clearly not the case. Regardless, Sakura wondered about something he was intending to do during the earlier battle. That was an easy explanation. "It was a last-ditch effort I keep to stop the dragon Fafnir from taking over. The Skill is called Disengage. It has the ability to reset battle conditions to a state of zero," he explained. In hearing this, Ailen cut his eyes toward Sakura. As per usual, she was asking the right questions to have a most favorable end result.

Meanwhile, Charlemagne received his answer. Jeanne d'Arc's current location would eventually be known as the Tower of Babel. More importantly to Charlemagne as an individual, it seemed even ridding himself of the Skill would not loose his connection to this 'angel'. Actually, he found that to be a positive. What if he had use of her guidance in the future, but also needed to acquire a different Skill? 'That's good. Maybe I'll need to call again after I ditch the Skill. You've been helpful so far, so I can't complain. Anything else I need to know before I start ignoring the fact that someone could be watching me at any moment of any day?'

[Apollymi]

Anais and Yume were having a conversation which seemed to be about schooling to anyone who wasn't already privy to the adjustment they'd made in their lives. That being said there was a conversation which needed to be had when no one else could hear so that the teasing of Anais could reach its peak. In this moment, it only seemed to be light and about the choices of the elafia girl. "Your question is completely ridiculous it makes no logical sense," Anais finally managed. True enough in her own mind the idea of her even having a secret boyfriend was purely fictional in the minds of her friends who seemed to think she had a lot more going on in her life than she did. "Of course it is logical, circumstantial yes, but still logical~" Yume teased. She had a whole list of incidents which individually might be explained away, but surely Anais didn't have an answer for every single point on the list. "Hm, what are we learning... he does that deep in thought thing that's always really interesting to see," nudged Yume into the Anais's ribs as she motioned with her eyes towards Ailen after breaking her initial eye contact. It was very interesting to think about what changed the ideas. "Sorry still reeling over how invasive of a species you manage to be less than 24 hours after you were summoned into the world!" mentioned Anais. "It's a gift!" Yume claimed. But if Anais was being sarcastic she wasn't actually in a bad mood, which was good.

There was a conversation happening between Sakura and Siegfried which seemed to be full of vital information. According to the Dragon Knight, he'd been attempting to use a skill he called disengage, which would have allowed him to return the battle status to zero. She looked at the man and gave those specific words a great deal of thought, and then a rather large smile broke out on her face. If one could easily set battle conditions to zero as a goddess she could probably do something much greater. As a child of all of the people she was sired by, she really could break reality. She didn't care for last-ditch efforts to stop something from happening, it would be much more useful if one could just keep things from happening at all. Yes... it would likely be considered a control skill of an ultimate tier, disengage but without anything expended. Disengage, but with no real drawbacks. "Arigatou gouzaimasu..." she said perhaps she should be nice. It seemed small gestures went quite a long way with people especially these sorts of people. Yes that would do just fine, she'd begin work on her skill while bringing to the forefront of her mind a very specific memory she wished to give the knight who wouldn't be accompanying them on their adventure.

Charles on the other hand would be asking a very open ended question of the 'angel' he now shared a connection with. Though he'd been given exactly the information he sought, he'd not been given much else. He even claimed that it was a good thing she could keep an eye on him as he might not know when he might need to call upon her again. 'Anything else you need to know?' she repeated that part of his sentence as if giving consideration to how to answer him. 'I figure you need to know eventually that how you ask these questions directly changes the way they're answered. I am too old a creature to be given so much leeway with my word choice~' she said giving that bit of advice. 'But, generosity is something I am capable of, so you should share the information that the missing leaders of Chaldea are also within the future Tower of Babel... per the special invitation of King Gilgamesh. Jeanne was not targeted this time and is under the watchful and protective gaze of many...' she noted. 'Oh, and just because history doesn't make sense thorough the window you are currently looking, does not mean it is untrue...' she added right there. As a person pushing towards certain means and ends she understood the usefulness of such statements.

[Bloodedge]

It seemed Ailen had become lost in thought over a certain learning opportunity. Though he commented on it aloud, he spoke only to himself regarding a personal learning experience. The other two could benefit as well, but it remained primarily a topic of self-interest. He could discover the true dichotomy of the apprentices on their individual learning journeys, and thus begin to theorize matters regarding future apprentices. "Hmm. I should keep watch and ensure they both grow as necessary. When the other three appear, this should be very intriguing. One might even wonder how many differences and similarities will be between them, and between them and us," he mumbled additionally.

Meanwhile, Siegfried gave Sakura the information she requested, and her response was a smile for some strange reason. She even went on to thank him. What a strange girl this was, asking the oddest of questions and then thanking someone for simple answers. No matter; Siegfried wasn't put out by having to give said answer. "If you believe thanks are necessary, I will accept. You're welcome," he said, choosing honor over confusion. Perhaps that answer was something she needed for her apparent reality-warping ability. If that were the case, maybe giving that explanation had done some good for the others. Alas, Siegfried's primary concern remained the whereabouts of Jeanne.

Speaking of her whereabouts, Charlemagne now knew where she and some others were. Of course, that knowledge would be given only after the angel made another claim ─ that his method of questioning determined the answers he'd receive. 'So you're fickle,' he scoffed. Oh well. He didn't care about any of that, wanting only the answers. King Gilgamesh had apparently called upon other major figures in Chaldea. What the angel added about history was noteworthy, but currently of no concern. 'Right. Got it,' he said. With that, Charlemagne spoke aloud once more. "Jeanne isn't missing. She and some others are on the tenth floor of a tower with King Gilgamesh. It sounds like there's no real danger," he said, much to Siegfried's immediate relief. "Truly? That does put me at ease... though a bit of warning would have been lovely," answered the Dragon-Knight. "Yeah, well warnings don't seem to be as popular as they used to be."

[Apollymi]

An interesting conversation was developing between Anais and Yume. Both of them were individually the apprentices of two interestingly different individuals, and their own individuality had them living two very different forms of life. "It's a curse," was the reply of Anais to Yume's assertion of her invasive nature. "No it's not. Curses are way worse... even now you're just really happy to see me. Happy you may have helped me... happy that someone else with you understands you~" she poked at one of the people she knew best in the world with relative ease. Too bad the girls' argument would come to an end as they heard the semi-constant murmurings of Ailen. Both girls gave pause and looked up at the elf as he seemed to be well on his way to a strange amount of observation of them. "He knows we can hear him right? We could take notes..." Yume mentioned seeming to find it amusing. "Yeah, he does this, I think it is part of his normal thought processes..." Anais confirmed. Though admittedly he didn't do so much of it while they were alone together. Perhaps it was a quirk? One which only popped up in public? Yume leaned into the girl and had a thing to whisper. "I know you're really into ASMR but the tall gorgeous rambling teacher is a little on the nose don't ya' think?" she asked, which only made Anais sigh. "I've met the rest of them... it's so much worse than that for me..." Anais admitted.

At the same time, Sakura was learning about the logic of these upright knightly types. The ones who'd landed in Munetsuchi had also been uncommonly polite with upright ways of doing and thinking things which she found a bit confusing, well, except Astolfo. This man was another not understanding why she'd thanked him, but accepting it just the same. She was busy on a couple of planes of her mind. In one she was crafting a skill and in the other she was busy piecing together a memory. This would continue for a few minutes as she quietly awaited Charles speaking again. Speaking of Charles, the angel he spoke with was brought down to a single descriptor, fickle. 'Maybe. Words are important, they are especially important while searching,' she mentioned as if this would make more sense. An announcement was soon to happen, with Charles quickly moving on from the things said in his head to address the information she'd given him. At this news, Martha finally spoke up again, having apparently regained the rest of her mind, "Ah, I will make sure a message gets to the Pharaohs, Albion and those left within Uruk. I am sure they are just as worried as everyone else," she mentioned having been among the first to go help try and figure out what happened to such a group of leaders.

[Bloodedge]

While the next generation of Munetsuchi's wisdom acknowledged their teacher's ramblings, things were progressing elsewhere in the room. Charlemagne reached the end of his discussion with the alleged angel ─ a conclusion that came with a bit of snark on the latter's part. Regardless of the angel's temperament, Martha believed it was worthwhile to inform some others of the disappearances. She could do so if she pleased; it wasn't as if he intended to depart this very day. "Go for it. We'll need a bit of time to get everything together, and I'd like to meet Tenjou before everything's settled."

With all that said and done, Charlemagne finally stood again. There was much to do, including another visit to the Nexus. This night would be the one that determined their plan's functionality, and the next day would be the start of a long journey toward their desired goal. Alas, there was a curiosity remaining in the male. "Has my room been taken?" he wondered. That was such a good room, he'd take his place there if it hadn't been claimed in the past millennium. If nothing else, he'd be able to enter the Nexus peacefully from there. Having a solid location to rest would also enable a bit of wandering. After all, he hadn't been to the Eternal Sanctum in a thousand years. Taking a more literal walk down memory lane would surely be good for decompression after the past couple of days he experienced.

[Apollymi]

Apparently among the things that Charles wanted to do, he wished to do, he wanted to meet Tenjou and speak with him before anything else. Though Martha was also approved to go do the other activities she planned on doing. "Yeah, I'll figure out where Tenjou wandered off to and send him your way while I am out," she said. That lad was one who would be invaluable and maybe mentioning that she was going to go as well would help out. She didn't know if he'd been up to anything in particular but he was a helpful guy so he'd likely be interested at least a bit. But there was also Charles's last question before Martha could vacate. Was his old room taken? Well, the answer to that was surprisingly, "No, it hasn't been taken. It's just like you left it," she said knowing how Jeanne was currently it was a bit odd that she hadn't either destroyed the room or let it be taken by anyone else. But her general desire in this world was to make sure all the Holy Knights had a home, and this was it. Or maybe it was a hint at that tsundere nature possessed by her less than amiable self? Whatever the case, he likely would have gotten a much warmer reception from the lass, even in her present state, if he hadn't felt like Father An upon their meeting.

Moving on, Sakura assumed they'd be going soon, and this was fine. She was keen enough to follow Charles but first she had something for Siegfried, "Sie-nii..." she looked to the dragon knght and motioned his face downward a bit. He was quite tall and if he accepted she place a hand upon his head, conferring to him one of her more recent memories, the one in which she was hugged by Jeanne d'Arc. She figured he might enjoy that, even after finding out that she was not in the same sort of danger. It would have that same sensation associated with it, as Sakura concluded the woman gave nice hugs and he probably felt strangely about her leaving without being able to tell him. She also fully acknowledged her future closeness to this man given his relationship to Jeanne d'Arc whether anyone else fully understood it yet or not. After that she'd simply head off with Charles, curious about his room within this rather immaculate building.

[Bloodedge]

"Good. I'll be at my usual haunts," Charlemagne said to offer guidance for the eventual arrival of Tenjou Yuuya. First and foremost, he had to vacate this stuffy old meeting room. Ah, but that would be held off just briefly by another matter. Charlemagne wasn't too surprised that his room hadn't been taken; it was in a very advantageous spot for anyone potentially untrustworthy. What he didn't expect, was the fact that it hadn't been tampered with since the day he left it... over a thousand years ago. 'Tsun,' was all he thought after several moments of hesitation. "In that case, there's something I should grab. Whenever you're back, meet us in the training yard at dawn," he said prior to taking leave.

Meanwhile, Siegfried was approached by Sakura once more. She addressed him affectionately in a manner befitting one's sibling figure, as he recalled of a language he never learned much of. Noting only her view of him from that utterance, he looked to the girl quizzically and moved toward her. She was motioning for him to lower himself, which... he found rather suspicious. Siegfried experienced such a thing normally when Jeanne herself was the one gesturing, and that had a very specific purpose. Well, this girl gave him no reason to believe she was literally insane, so... he lowered. Her hand reached his head then, and a vision entered his mind. For a moment, it was not Sakura standing before him, but Jeanne, offering a very real and very familiar embrace. How did this girl produce such an event? He wouldn't question it. No, he could only appreciate the gift he was so randomly given. Beyond the vision, however, he seemed mostly unchanged ─ if only far less aggressive-looking than normal. "You have my thanks. Enjoy your stay," he said, bowing to the young goddess. To the others, he offered welcome. "You are all free to whatever open rooms you please. If any of you have need of a training partner during your stay, I offer my services."

Charlemagne left the room with only a wave, but it seemed he wouldn't be alone. Sakura had also taken her leave, and he realized she was walking along with him down the corridor. She could have gotten a room of her own for the duration, yet... he doubted that was going to happen. Did he mind the thought, though? Not really. "Should I even be surprised at this point? I'm guessing you're not just on your way to find an adjacent room."

[Apollymi]

Charles claimed he would be at his usual haunts. If Martha was thinking about it correctly she could give some accurate directions to Tenjou when she found the lad. Of course, it wasn't just that, it seemed the news that his room was both unoccupied and still intact seemed to bring about an odd reaction from the lad, though it wasn't spoken of directly. She also wondered about that, but she figured it was simply a matter of Jeanne having nothing against Charles. "Yeah, I'll send him your way when I come across him and I should be back by the morning as long as no one needs me for anything else," Martha mentioned. She wasn't the type to abandon anyone, even if she was just visiting to deliver messages she'd be sure to help out whenever she could. And with that she got ready to properly take her leave but not before she witnessed the rather odd exchange between Sakura and Siegfried.

He may not have had a full understanding of the way she approached and spoke to him, but Martha's original nationality let her know exactly how friendly this girl actually was. The only thing she couldn't know in the moment, was exactly what she did by patting the Dragon Knight's head, she figured whatever it was gave him something he'd not really had recently, peace. He went on to welcome the lot and let them know they could have unoccupied rooms if they wanted and access to him as a training partner if they desired. Sakura smiled as he bowed to her but that was all. "You're welcome and thank you... see you around~" she said seemingly pleased with her own actions. And then she followed out Charles.

Charles seemed to be rather intuitive this day, but chose to question if he should be surprised. He asked about the idea of the girl finding her own room and she looked at him in a rather confused manner. "Why would I do that?" she asked. It was completely foreign as a concept that she'd purposefully separate herself from him. It wasn't necessary nor did she feel like it would be beneficial in any way. Oddly enough Charles likely wouldn't be alone in this sort of situation. Anais was quite certain she was about to be sharing whatever room she chose with at least one other person and it was possibly two given Yume's previous life habits.

[Bloodedge]

The moment they were instructed to take whatever room they pleased, Astolfo knew exactly where to go. He had a room of his own long ago, but that didn't matter. He knew where Martha's room was. If she wasn't going to be there for the night, he was going to wait around for the morning... and perhaps rummage through her unmentionables, diary, or whatever else he found within. Ah, what a night he had to look forward to! To make things better, he even still had the horse! What more good could come of this day?

On the other hand, someone like Charlemagne could only wonder how much weirder today could become. Sakura had gone completely native in terms of their connection. Of course, they had spent every waking (and sleeping) moment together since his arrival to Munetsuchi. At this point, even he might consider it weird to separate. Ah, and there was the pregnancy thing mentioned by the Nexus. Two women were carrying children of his, one that he just met and one being the crush of his relative youth ─ neither was his wife. How terrible. The one currently in his company, he didn't even take issue with. He did, however, have a massive problem with how little he minded... but Sakura didn't have to be on the receiving end of that. "Never mind. It was a stupid question," he said. From there, Charlemagne continued up a winding staircase in a tall tower. A climb to the top, followed by a short trip down a connecting corridor, and he just about reached his room. Ah, but there was something strange just before reaching the door. Another door that he knew belonged to one Gilles de Rais was black from burning, yet his own was in pristine condition. It was so strange that nothing had been done to his own. "The tsundere is strong in this one," he mumbled with a sigh.

Ignoring the oddness of his room being left alone, Charlemagne walked inside to see things just as he remembered. The room was adorned with tapestries depicting tales of valor and righteousness. An intricately carved and glowing crystal orb was suspended above the bed, radiating a soft, ethereal light that bathed the room in a gentle luminescence. Polished armor and a gleaming sword rested against one corner. Rays of morning sunlight would later be able to filter through frosted glass into the east-facing window ─ something Charlemagne always enjoyed about this room for its gentle waking properties. "Tadaima..." Charlemagne whispered after a long, deep breath of familiar air.

[Apollymi]

While Astolfo wandered off, Anais finally stood and when she did Yume immediately joined her. They would begin walking along as Anais considered the kind of room she was looking for. As opposed to Charles desire to high east-facing windows with frosted glass, Anais's mild stroll would lead her towards something nearer to ground level with a western facing window, with a single subconscious thought 'As far away as possible... my hearing is too good, I don't need that'. On the western side of the building given her own preferences. Just the same Yume would begin to speak again apparently finding this whole thing rather interesting. "So, we just break now? We catch up?~" she mused as Anais stopped in front of a room. "Yeah, that sounds about right," she mentioned. It had an open door and thus was marked unoccupied. It was homey, warm with an amber colored ball of light hanging in its ceiling. Though there wasn't much by decorations, it included a tapestry of a large tree and some greens, oranges and golden hues. It had a larger bed than her standard fully made that could easily fit two people, even her giant of a mentor wouldn't have his legs hanging over the side. Why were king sized beds basically standard in this place? Well, given the size of the Dragon Knight perhaps it was meant to make anyone comfortable and given his relationship with Jeanne d'Arc, maybe she or others accounted for sleepovers? "My room at Aincrad was really really bad. This one is only lightly decorated and is way better. It feels so much better... Does it work for you, Shishou?" she found herself observing and wondering assuming her elf mentor hadn't really wandered off at all. And she stepped into it finding it to be easy on all of her senses while giving her a view of a deep forest that the sun's light set behind. Nice... she liked this. There was a little desk unoccupied with another smaller globe of light atop it. And even several small sconces if she decided she needed more light along the walls. Beyond that the slight tint to the deeper frosted glass kept the light from feeling overly intrusive. She'd also chosen this spot because acoustically less sound reached it, so she might actually be able to rest, at least a little. It also seemed less prone to traffic.

Meanwhile, Sakura watched Charles go through several sets of emotions as they walked through. He apparently thought his question was stupid and she lightly agreed. "It's just that I said I'd stay with you and I meant it," she said seeming to find his questions surrounding them odd. Perhaps this too was part of his emotional instability and she should prod a bit to find out how he was actually feeling? She also saw the door obviously blackened by Jeanne d'Arc's own hand and heard the comment made about it. "I don't completely understand that statement, but given what she had to say about him, I would say he can't call this place his home anymore," she seeming to understand that Gilles was at least partly responsible for the current less than charitable state of Jeanne d'Arc and that he'd likely been someone she trusted deeply.

Moving on, she'd find herself walking into the room that apparently belonged to Charles. it was quite the room if she was being honest. A bright window, bright light, and even tapestries and armor set up. It seemed to scream mentally of someone who wanted to be a knight and do the right thing. It also seemed to feel rather accepting of him in the moment a very nice and open space which welcomed him home. "Sou ka, did you miss this place, Char-kun?" she asked the lad. His mind was an interesting place, and so was this room. She'd be seen curiously inspecting tapestries and the general feel of this room.

[Bloodedge]

Just as he said he would, Ailen followed along behind Anais. He was still rambling, but had recently been reduced to total incoherency while his mind raced. There were so many possibilities on the horizon, what more could he do? Far too many advancements were worth seeking, and so many of those advancements were gravitating toward Anais, as well as Mugen's new apprentice. Ailen was absolutely astounded. He couldn't even be considered conscious to the masses, until Anais said something to him directly. Only then did the elf realize there was a bedroom in front of him. "Hmm?" he said immediately. Ah, she wanted his take on the room. It was a bedroom, and therefore acceptable as a form of shelter. Apart from that, he didn't think much of it. "If you find it sufficient, then I can only agree. It is certainly easy on the eyes, but I am not very picky... in this case," he added. Elves tended to exude an aura of aristocracy, but Ailen would be taking a different approach while accompanying his apprentice. So long as she was satisfied with a situation, he took no issue with anything.

Sakura was only doing precisely what she said she would, as she pointed out to Charlemagne. "You did say that, and you've been doing that. Ignore my being weird; I'm still getting used to all this stuff," he said. Charlemagne wouldn't be trying to alter the mannerisms of a goddess. Just as he once told Angelica, however, he also couldn't change his own outlook in a short amount of time. "Feel free to just... not acknowledge me doing a 180 like that. It'll probably be easier to make adjustments with more exposure," he suggested. Right away, Charlemagne partially regretted that statement. Did he sign himself up for something he'd later hate? Maybe... or maybe not. Time would tell regardless. First, there was a question from Sakura, asked while he stepped inward to approach that glowing crystal. "I didn't have much time to give it thought, but yeah. This was my second home before Aincrad. When I wasn't in France, I was here with Jeanne and the others. Now that I think about it, it's weird that I haven't been here in a millennium. Though... it's also still weird looking back on a millennium of life for me. I remember when this kind of stuff was just fantasy."