On apping at sweven

[soldierofprotection]

You should be more confident! So long as you're pleased with what you've written, you have nothing to be nervous about -- especially since you like revising your works so much anyway.

N-not that I think there's anything wrong! I'm sure they'll like it, too!

I will be very sad to leave my friends, but I can't be afraid to try new things, even if I wish Usagi-chan and everyone else were coming with me.

But no matter what happens I promise I'll do my best to keep smiling if you will!

Comments

[buntails]

Mako-chan! [Have a bright smile and a streak of blond rushing towards you, biffle.]

[soldierofprotection]

Eh? [a surprised blink there, which quickly melts into a wide smile as she closes the distance] I wondered if I might find you here.

[buntails]

[Hope Mako's ready for the giant hug.]

Of course! I can't be far away from you, right? [No need to talk about the games that separate them.]

[soldierofprotection]

[Bring on all of the hugs, Usagi-chan!]

That's right. [There is that. And not wishing to make her friends unhappy, she resolves to avoid just that.] Never.

[buntails]

[She's not far away in her heart, at least.]

We've been together through everything so far, after all. And we've always found each other. Always.

[soldierofprotection]

If nothing else there's always this place, right?

[And she actually feels more guilty now not talking about it.]

Have you gone somewhere with your mun?

[buntails]

Mm. [Her smile is a bit shaky, but she wants to be supportive with what she says next.] And it sounds like your mun is doing something, too.

[thy_heroine]

Mako-chan! It's so nice to see you!

[soldierofprotection]

Ah, Usagi-chan! [A full smile] Is your mundane sending you to Sweven, too?

[thy_heroine]

[Smiles back] No. She doesn't have much courage to work on an application. Too scared.

[soldierofprotection]

[She nods, understanding, then brightly assures] Don't worry! If she's like you, then she'll find a place for you when the time is right.

[thy_heroine]

I'm she will eventually find a place for me. Hopefully, it'll be close by you and the others.

[soldierofprotection]

In any case, I don't think you'll be alone for long. You're too sweet, Usagi. Everyone could use a friend like you.

[thy_heroine]

As long as I can see you guys right here. That's okay with me.

[waterfell]

[No. She can't let those words go.]

The sailor senshi would fall apart anyway, whether you go now or it happens later.

[She should know.]

[soldierofprotection]

[Does she know you? Makoto narrows her eyes, guarded, but thoughtful.]

Never. No matter what happens, we are always together again in the end.

[waterfell]

[What's the matter, Sailor Jupiter? You don't recognize a friend?]

Sailor Jupiter. [She looks like Mercury, from the blue hair to the senshi uniform, even if it's been altered with those black markings. But that flat voice, as if the name of her comrade means nothing, is all wrong, and so are those too-dark eyes.]

Will you really still say that nonsense?

[soldierofprotection]

Sailor Mercury?

[A look of surprised realization is shaken away to one of resolution.]

I will. It's not nonsense. You must know this. You've seen where we have gone, where we will go, just like I have.

Haven't you?

[waterfell]

Yes. It's because I've seen that I understand.

The sailor senshi and their princess are my enemy. [She says 'their', as if she was never a part of it, never one of them loving their princess as well as they - perhaps even best.]

[soldierofprotection]

[alarmed] What are you saying? Mercury, you're one of us. You've always been one of us!

[waterfell]

[She thinks of Kunzite's words: that she will always be a senshi, just as he will always be one of the shitennou, no matter how much they hate what it means. They're trapped by it until they assert themselves, like he broke the shackles of his loyalty to the former prince.]

Not any longer.

[sailor_uranus]

Thatta girl, you tell her. ;)

[soldierofprotection]

Ah, Haruka-san! You're here, too?

[sailor_uranus]

My mun likes dropping by here; it's a nice low-pressure place, she says.

I hope you and your mun will enjoy it, too.

[soldierofprotection]

Nn, it's new to me, but my mun seems to know her way around this place already. She's just not so sure about where I'm going.