She's not the only who's prepared. He might not have expected to be dealing with the map again, but he'd like to think that he's gotten at least somewhat more practiced with his electromagnetism since his last go-round with this particular section of the map. And while he can't be entirely certain he'd be up to countering an EM pulse in time to keep it from knocking the power to the entire hotel, he's not unwilling to at least try.
(And even if he does knock out the hotel's power, it's not particularly likely that the staff would let him in to anywhere he'd need to get to in order to fix things.)
He does notice, too, the way she seems to have been lost in thought for a moment, but he doesn't address it. There are too many things that have been lost, now, and Praxis is just one of those many things. That and he knows Helen, even if he isn't entirely aware of the people she'd met during her trip, and can all too easily guess that she blames herself for not being able to do more to either prevent the catastrophe that had leveled the city or save more of the people and culture of the city.
"C'mon, Helen," he offers instead. "You know as well as I do that particular... legend didn't come into being until well after this would have been designed."
He is, admittedly, assuming that it isn't a creation of Helen's father, but given the thoroughness of it, and the way it react to vampires (or those with vampiric blood) he rather doubts that's case. A trail for Helen to follow, almost certainly. But not something her father had a direct hand in.
Of course, neither does he so much as attempt to look for a symbol that might be anything close to Helen's suggestion, but he knows well enough that he hadn't been meant to, and so he simply moves on to try to figure out what the password might be.
"The last time it needed something like a password it was ... 'gateway,' wasn't it? Although I suppose we don't have any way of knowing if they'd use the same one twice."
He wouldn't, and some of that probably comes through in his voice, but neither is he the map's creator. And it's not impossible that what's worked before will work again.
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(And even if he does knock out the hotel's power, it's not particularly likely that the staff would let him in to anywhere he'd need to get to in order to fix things.)
He does notice, too, the way she seems to have been lost in thought for a moment, but he doesn't address it. There are too many things that have been lost, now, and Praxis is just one of those many things. That and he knows Helen, even if he isn't entirely aware of the people she'd met during her trip, and can all too easily guess that she blames herself for not being able to do more to either prevent the catastrophe that had leveled the city or save more of the people and culture of the city.
"C'mon, Helen," he offers instead. "You know as well as I do that particular... legend didn't come into being until well after this would have been designed."
He is, admittedly, assuming that it isn't a creation of Helen's father, but given the thoroughness of it, and the way it react to vampires (or those with vampiric blood) he rather doubts that's case. A trail for Helen to follow, almost certainly. But not something her father had a direct hand in.
Of course, neither does he so much as attempt to look for a symbol that might be anything close to Helen's suggestion, but he knows well enough that he hadn't been meant to, and so he simply moves on to try to figure out what the password might be.
"The last time it needed something like a password it was ... 'gateway,' wasn't it? Although I suppose we don't have any way of knowing if they'd use the same one twice."
He wouldn't, and some of that probably comes through in his voice, but neither is he the map's creator. And it's not impossible that what's worked before will work again.