She was Setsuna Meiou. She was the Guardian Of The Gates Of Time, also known as Sailor Pluto, the Senshi of Time.
She was Svetlana. She was Setsuna.
The girl in the bed took stock of her abilities and mindset. She remembered both pasts but in a fragmented form. She was number Nineteen with the abilities that the Russian program had infused her with. The powers of Sailor Pluto might be there, but without her henshin pen - not currently accessible.
That left her innate mystic abilities that she had as Svetlana-19. She could move very fast and strike very precisely. She had some moderate clairvoyant abilities, including precognitive flashes and postcognitive tracing.
Her room revealed the objects that indicated her uncertain status within this world. Mentally and emotionally she was young, in some ways very young. She saw her favorite book and her big floppy teddy bear and was surprised by the sudden flashes of overwhelming emotion to each. Physically she was about nineteen.
It was when she saw a picture of Ranma and her at an amusement park, her face obscured by cotton candy, that she got her second surprise in that regard. Svetlana had a crush on Ranma that at the least bordered on worship. She had been built to be a 'perfectly obedient slave and living weapon' - and that obedience and loyalty were to Ranma. As her body was a teenager's but her mind had been childlike, there had not been a sexual component. Now that the integrated mind was older and more knowledgable, the feelings within her did carry that sort of charge.
She realized that it would be difficult for her to resist Ranma. Svetlana remembered being rescued, of Ranma learning how to be nurturing and kind, of how each act of kindness and caring had cemented the bond she felt for her rescuer.
It was difficult not to go down the hall to him, where he'd be resting in the dark with nothing but a tank top and boxers. Svetlana would have done so on awakening in the night, and many were the times that Ranma would awake to find that Svetlana had cuddled up next to him after a bad dream. Up until Akane had reached that point where she just couldn't take it, her finding the little girl in adult body cuddling Ranma had been a major sore point.
Svetlana had never understood why Akane would be angry. Setsuna knew, and knew how she could take his mind completely off of Akane.
The problem was that everyone was going to be more than a little surprised at Setsuna's sudden maturity.
Setsuna considered how best to do this and finally decided:
(Posted Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:08)
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