"Hmm, that's a lot simpler than I was expecting," Alex admitted as Linea explained what she thought that they had to do. It wouldn't be simple, but it was something that they could manage easily enough. He supposed that his time breaking into places had made him used to more complicated traps, too paranoid to see a simple one at face value. 

Glancing back, he noticed with a frown that Tori wasn't there after all. She must have ducked down a side passage or something, and if he were to be honest Alex didn't feel that bad for her. She shouldn't expect him to, after how she had treated him this entire trip. "She's smart, I'm sure she'll be fine," he reassured the twins before getting back to the business of memorizing. 

When it came down to it though it was fairly easy to cross, only made difficult by the speed at which the tiles were moving. His Tome helped with that though, and soon enough the three of them were across and in the new portal. At last they didn't have to bake in that overwhelming heat anymore. 

Deposited beyond, Alex twisted a bit as he found himself floating in space, with a nebula beyond and some sort of altar. If he didn't miss his guess, this must have been the center of the temple, even if he still wondered how someone was supposed to get in here normally. But he didn't ask that as he noticed the strange girl, about to speak only to be spoken to instead, in words that wee not exactly comforting by any stretch of the imagination. 

The rumbling that shook through his bones didn't help, causing his teeth to click together as he considered what had been said. So this girl was looking for some sort of authorization then? That could be bad, or it could be good. Certainly the twins seemed to feel the same way, as they looked to him for direction. 

"Well, we can't just walk away after coming this far," he noted aloud. "The code has to be something connected to the people who built this temple, right? Some sort of phrase, saying, name, that sort of thing." He thought on it for a moment before letting himself drift forward, speaking up so the girl could hear him. "Ad astra per Aspera." well, here went nothing.

[@KoL]