From this room in the tower, you can see the palace layed out below. The people mill about, my fellow scouts returning to their rooms after bidding good night to Princess Serenity. I had left early to wash my hair, dirtied after training today. I guess it's a con to having blonde hair, particularly long like mine...it is beautiful but so much maintenance! The Princess is lucky to merely watch us train from a distance.
From here, I see Mars enter her room, the fire in her pit casting a warm glow through the window. Jupiter is missing again, which is no surprise. She has left training and not come back until nearly the next morning. None of us knows where she goes. Her room lies vacant. There are lanterns glowing in the library, while Mercury's quarters are left unlit. The Princess is the closet room to mine, with a similar layout, though on a larger scale. There is a passage in the palace between the two rooms, hidden behind some tapestries.
I see the shadow of the Princess now, her hair down, talking with Luna. My heart aches. I can't handle the sight.
Some days, I wonder why I was born as a leader of such an important group of people. The other three scouts rely on each other, but on me most. The Queen has assigned me special duties, years ago when Princess Serenity was a mere infant. Just as my planet is most similar to the Earth we protect, I am the most similar to the Princess. These duties are known only to us Senshi, the Queen, Princess Serenity and Luna.
It takes all of my energy to lead the Senshi, preparing them for a time that one day may come, when we must lay down our well-being for the sake of the royal family. I must also accompany the Princess on every outing away from the palace...which isn't all too bad, when she 'secretly' visits the Prince. I tag along for a view of one of his generals.
Anything to distract me momentarily from how the Princess tugs at my heartstrings in a way no one else has before. Lust is familiar, but this feeling...
Blonde hair tied back, still wet, I turn to the window again. Serenity's lanterns are extinguished, the soft glow the cast hidden until the next evening. How cruel it is that she is forbidden to see the one she loves…to be near him. Yet, it is I that need enforce such misery. I cannot. I know all too well what it is like to be forbidden from expression towards the one you love. I have every desire to be beside Princess Serenity in times of peace and war alike.
The Princess does not know much of the rising unrest in the people of the Earth, and the paranoia of the people of the Moon. Under my order, none of the other Senshi may mention it to her. It would devastate her. I much rather the news come from the Prince himself, it may be more gentle.
My life was never my choice, which I accepted as a child. I will do my best to live this life in accordance to the needs of the Princess.
I will do everything to express my indefinable love for her.
I will willingly give my life to spare hers.
I have taken this oath, under the honor of my home planet, Venus.