Eventually, Usagi's curiosity broke the moment. "Well?", she asked hopefully. "Aren't you going to get up and walk?"
Ranma's reply began in an irritated tone, with a gesture at his useless legs. "I can't walk - you know that..." His voice softened somewhat, though, as he realised what she'd been hoping to hear. "I'm sorry if you thought you could help me, but..."
Sailor Moon, looking stunned that her powers hadn't done anything, cut him off. "I can help you! I know I can! MOON HEALING ESCALATION!" She poured all her strength into the wave of magic, and when she finished, visibly drained, she looked up at Ranma in a silent plea.
Ranma looked down at his legs, which still weren't moving, and back up at the girl in front of him. Feeling almost guilty at crushing her hopes and those of the other Senshi watching them, he shook his head. "I'm sorry." he said almost apologetically.
"But... but..." Moon looked like she was about to burst into tears. Saturn looked even worse than she had when Ranma first told her that Pluto had shot her pet robot dog.
"It's all right," Ranma explained, "I'm used to being like this. Thanks anyway - it was worth a try, I suppose."
"You've never actually used your powers to heal injuries before," Mercury added gently, moving over to console her friend. "Perhaps they just don't work that way."
"But they have to!" Moon burst out, almost sobbing. "Ranma's a good person, and he was going to help us, and he's Hotaru's friend, so they have to work! They just have to!"
Setsuna winced as another of the pillars of her Crystal Tokyo - Usagi's unwavering belief that a pure heart and a determined will could heal all the pain in the world - cracked. Without that belief, she might not have the strength to purify the hearts of everyone who lived there. Without that belief, she might not have the courage to banish those who might disagree with her off to Nemesis. Pluto could feel her pure and perfect future slipping through her fingers, and she didn't know what to do to salvage it.
What she didn't realise, and which would put her future in even greater jeopardy, was that:
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