“So you are the Princess.” The confirmation should have been comforting, but it left me... not doubtful - either in the sense that I felt I might be wrong, nor with the fear that this young girl before me was too changed from her past incarnation to be worthy of the title; but...
Uneasy, fearful - she was scared, broken. Death and reincarnation should have heal any lingering mental would, but her eyes were raw.
“How… how did you find me?” How indeed. I try never to let anyone know all I know - my foreknowledge is limited, I can't gaze to deeply into the past for fear of making it real, and hence subject to change - but that light show... I'm not limited in what I can see in the present.
“Not here… someone might find us—and we have some sensitive things to discuss.” Let us see what she remembers...
“The Time Gates?” It seems she remembers enough.
“Exactly.” I said, lifting the key up, I brought it down, and we were gone.
The mists swirled about us, and at some point between traveling from the world of the life to the odd oasis in the neatherworld where some earlier Pluto hid the time gate Serenity the Younger had changed from her school clothes to a simple white gown. She had also acquired an odd, luminescent tattoo of a crescent moon upon her brow.
"It's good your awake princess. I was worried - if they had found you first..."
If she has foreknowledge she might respond to a statement about a nebulous them - I know its a long shot, but she has no real reason to think Beryl is still around so depending on her answer...
"You don't?" Bright blue eyes blinked owlishly at me. So she isn't going to slip up, assuming theres something to slip up about. I need to relax, I'm just being paranoid, nothing is really wrong, right? "I would have thought... wait, that makes sense, you didn't know where Saturn was..."
He voice trailed off into oblivion. So did the little voice in my head saying that I was being paranoid. My hackles all stood on end, and it was a act of god that kept by voice steady. "How much do you remember?" How much do you already know.
"Bits and piece. The Moon Cat advisers. Stories of an evil queen who ate dreams my mother... my PAST mother, sealed away. How to do a few magics. Nothing really important."
And evil queen who ate dreams... who... Oh HER. Wow, nostalgia trip - I hadn't thought about her in over, oh, going on nine hindered years.
"Beryl is alive." Let's see how she responds.
"Really?" I could have been talking about next weeks weather. Not that I would - the time gate isn't for something that unimportant.
"Maybe you should link up with one of the Senshi. They'll have an easier time guarding" and watching "you if you do. Mars is already awake, so you could just-"
"NO. I mean no. No one knows where I am but you, and there aren't that many thing that can contend with you in this place. No one need know of me. Not till their stronger." Stronger. Did she think her Senshi incapable of protecting her? Even if it wasn't at me directly, who did this pretentious princess think she...
Her eye were sad. And she had showed knowledge of the future - knowledge I didn't have. Knowledge that she wasn't sharing. "You would be safer..." My voice failed me.
"Hmf." She snorted. "Some of the horrors out there, they could stand before the Senshi of Ruin herself, and laugh as they ripped out her soul to use as a trophy." I was quite sure her example was practical, rather then theoretical. It also gave me an idea of how she knew what she knew. When a powerful being dies horribly, they can send what amounts to dreams through time itself. Most dismiss them, but... It wasn't the right explanation, I knew, but I gave me a starting point.
"I'm going to be late to school." She was gone. Normally you need my permission to leave, but she had done it. She got an A for execution in her escape, but a D for that pethetic excuse. This was the Time Gate after all.
Beryl isn't what she fears. Metilla isn't what she fear. Saturn could deal with either if she was in top form. So she would need to be in better then top form. I frowned, making new plans.
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