Lunar Boot Camp

[Halbarad]

Ami pointedly ignores the Lunar princess, aside from supressing a thought of the girl encased in ice up to her neck.

[Ebiris]

Rei nods distractedly at Princess Serenity's words, her smile turning slightly goofy as she remembers the invitation the Queen made earlier... but she quickly shakes it off. There is something else that needs to be resolved before she can think about such matters, after all.

[Brian]

Makoto nods diligently. Her own parents seldom spoke to her with any regularity.

[Corwin]

Queen Serenity stops in mid-sentence, and her gaze shoots towards her guests. She dismisses her aides with a gesture, and approaches the girls, not taking her eyes off Ami. A frown appears on her face, she she says in a clear voice, "Come over here, Serenity dearest."

[Halbarad]

Ami drops to one knee, bowing in the presence of her queen. She wonders why the queen singled her out of all of the other girls, but chalks it up to the fact that she must have met the others at some point previously.

[Corwin]

Serenity gives her mother a curious look, but shrugs and waves at her new friends. "It's been a blast! Call me sometime, and we'll go out to Earth or something." The girl runs over to her mother, and kisses her on the cheek.

The Queen sighs, and pats the girl on her head, before saying something softly. Her daughter nods, and leaves the room, skipping. Shaking her head, Serenity comes closer to the princesses. "You are Ami of Mercury, aren't you?" she asks, glaring at the kneeling girl.

[Halbarad]

"Y-yes, your Majesty. I apologize for my unannounced arrival, but I..." Ami closes her eyes as memories of the events that triggered her trip to Luna rush through her head. "I had to speak with you on a matter of some urgency." She barely manages to keep her voice from shaking.

[Corwin]

Serenity looks undecided. "Is that related to the important mission I entrusted to Artemis?" she asks, not masking her displeasure.

[Ebiris]

Rei remains silent as she watches the interplay, curious as to how Ami will portray her version of events. Surely the Mercurian Princess can't be as bad as the picture Queen Serenity painted earlier?

[Halbarad]

"It may well be, your Majesty. Artemis was not exactly forthcoming with the details of why my presence had been requested here on the Moon."

Ami swallows hard. "If it is not too much to ask, I would ask for a private audience with you at some point soon. The information I have is... of a rather delicate nature."

[Corwin]

"Fine," Serenity snaps after a short pause. "Everybody out." The technicians manning the stations set against the walls of the room fan out at their Queen's words, leaving her alone with the three princesses and Filia.

"What are you waiting for?" Seremity asks unkindly, levelling a hostile glare at the priestess. "Don't they teach you proper etiquette on Mercury?"

Filia shivers, but looks at her charge. "Mistress Ami?"

[Halbarad]

"Please go, Filia. This should not take long, I hope." Ami swallows hard. The last thing she had imagined was trying to speak with a hostile Queen Serenity.

[Corwin]

Filia bows to Ami, and then to Serenity, though a bit fearfully, and scurries away.

[Halbarad]

Ami glances to her sides at the other princesses in the room. "I hate to ask, your Majesty, but it really might be best if it were the two of us, alone."  Ami takes a shuddering breath, trying to stop the images of that fateful night from running through her head. "What I have to say has the possibility of creating a temporal paradox."

[Ebiris]

Rei shrugs, "If it pleases your Majesty, Princess Makoto and I shall wait outside." She then turns to the Jovian Princess. "Come on, Mako-chan. We can have a quick glance at the book while we wait to tell her Majesty about what happened when we aquired it." Her voice carries an unmistakable edge of anger as she finishes.