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After applying themselves so intently, the two girls went from their hard work pressing them towards dawn to taking it easy right until another dusk. Maintaining a decent sleeping schedule drifting between two different realities was proving to be decidedly more than challenging.

Axln herself spent her time actively considering matters of time. She had noticed that this planet at least progressed its time in perfect sync with her own planet, but she didn't completely understand how it had watched matters of time. Researching the matter with Lyun, she had learned some rather interesting details on the subject at least. Ruixse also had an orbital calendar system, though a lot less refined than Aestus worked with, even if a lot of things were surprisingly familiar. Just like Aestus, most of the time tracking had been ripped wholesale from their original homeworld of Celese. Instead of months, they had something called a lunar cycle, watching the orbit of a moon. Just as stupid as earth though, a lunar cycle was the orbital period of the Celesi moon's phases, not even of either of the two local moons. This resulted in a lunar cycle taking effectively 18 and a quarter days to complete, which were in turn split into groups of 5 that covered the duration of a standard season over 91 and a quarter days. The full cumulation of seasons spanned the term of a year, which was itself also a Celesi construct for the same time period as a Terran version of the same stupid word, the amount of time Celese needs to do an orbit around their own sun. Even more confusing, the term Solar cycle was invented to represent Ruixse's own orbital period of their own sun, being effectively like a Sidus. Axln had no idea why stellar travellers seemed to feel so compelled to make such a process so complicated.

Even more complicated was how all those quarter-days fit into the annual rotation. Because of such odd fractions, each cycle is considered to simply be eighteen days, but the day bordering the switch of seasons was considered to be a special seasonal holiday. Since this still left one last odd day in the sequence, there was also a similar special day that was considered the border of the annual sequence, being yet another special holiday right mid-summer. Meanwhile, the same lunar cycle is divided further into three groups of six days called a lunar phase, each as the early, mid, and late phase. Meanwhile, it seems Celese had never been paranoid about structuring their days with more clarity than morning, afternoon, evening, and night. Instrumentation though, much like technology, did however call for a system of more precision, a concept she could personally agree. In simplicity, a day is simply split into a hundred moments, which are then further split into a hundred instants. Having processed the math in her head, with consideration that a day here is the exact same length as on her planet, that would mean that ten moments are inadvertently the same as one hour. Any instrument that needed values more precise than an instant simply relied on a fractal of an instant. The average lifestyle of a person though did not make application of such precise measures, they were only used in instrumentation. Finding this disappointing, she was really considering asking Lyun to create an actual timepiece for her, one with decimal-level precision in instants. Time was something very important to her.

With considerations to time, she had found it interesting just how much was actually matching up. Not just the passage of days, the current season was actually considered early summer when taken into consideration of their primary sun, Yhndae. Their other sun, Taeqhyx, governed their solar phases that would either empower or weaken the planet's elements, the current solar phase being a void phase because Taeqhyx was so far away. This was all the exact same placements as the Aestus' suns, except for that there wasn't a third sun in this system. This itself appeared strange to her, that absolutely everything was mapping up so exactly. Certainly this couldn't just be a matter of coincidence. In fact, from her considerations about how laws of reality were mapping across to each other, the patterns were showing that quite a lot of things could possibly be keeping up with this idea. It was a prime idea, but Lyun's workshop just was not a place of research, Axln would have to find a much more suitable opportunity to look into such stuff at another time.