The odd colors flashing among those which he would have expected had admittedly instilled a bit of anxiety in Somniorum as he glanced up at the sky, so it was a relief to find such a ready answer when he looked online. Even if he felt more than a bit foolish that he’d gotten himself to the point where even natural phenomena had started to spook him.
It was unlike him really, letting superstitious impulses get the better of him before ensuring that there wasn’t a perfectly rational way to explain the sight. The page was grateful that no one could see directly into his head, it would be more than a little bit embarrassing if somebody else knew he’d scared himself like a medieval peasant reading portents of doom in the night sky. A slight smile flickered across his face, humans never really changed, he supposed. The sudden presence of another energy signature caught his attention.
Did they see?
Was it obvious how alarmed he’d been?
Hopefully not.
Even if they’d somehow missed it before, the jolt that moved through his body at the sound of an unfamiliar voice betrayed his jumpiness. Looking upward, he was surprised to see another page perched in a nearby tree. He squinted, eventually managing to identify the stranger’s insignia as belonging to Mercury. It still felt a bit…insane to know that a civilization somehow survived that close to the sun, but he’d found himself in the position of caretaker for a library on the moon so he needed to remind himself that he was well beyond the point of what he’d believed to be scientific fact.
“Er…hello!”He offered the Mercury Knight a slightly self-conscious wave, wondering if attempting to join her in the tree would be the more polite thing to do.
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