Ceres ran into the boudoir.

"I'm to be sworn in!"she exclaimed to Malwina and Fayruza.

"Sworn in?"asked Malwina. "I thought Your Grace was sworn in."

"As a baby! I couldn't say the words! And I can't even remember the ceremony! So, I get another one!"

"Oh?"

"I think that makes sense."said Fayruza.

"Does that mean you will get another one for your ducal title, as well?"asked Malwina.

Ceres crossed her arms.

"You're right! I should have be invested as Duchess of Ceres again!"

"Your Grace was never really recognized as heiress to Lord Kunzite's kingdom."said Fayruza. "Only as heiress presumptive, not exactly as heiress apparent. Perhaps this will for that. You're a girl, and on Earth, it's usually boys who inherit titles. Maybe they wanted Lord Kunzite to have a boy."

Fayruza was Kunzite's daughter, too. She was born before he had married Minako, however.

"The succession laws on Earth do put boys first."agreed Ceres.

She remembered this from her lessons. Regardless, Kunzite was determined that his legitimate first born was the one to inherit his kingdom, even if she was a girl.

"I was really never formally invested because they had to change the succession laws. I think they were waiting for a boy."she said. "If Mama and Papa do have boys, I would be put behind them in the succession for Papa's kingdom, according to the succession laws. But apart from myself, in the Crown Princess's marriage treaty, it said that the crown of Earth should to go Small Lady, and she's a girl. Maybe that's why. But I don't know if there's such a thing in Mama and Papa's marriage treaty. But,"she continued. "I must brush up on my Terran."she said to Fayruza, who was her tutor.

Ceres spoke Terran like a native. Kunzite always spoke to her in it. He liked to hear her speak it. She was told to practice daily with Fayruza. Malwina understood a word here and there, and it would amuse them to speak in it before her. Malwina would simply throw up her arms, and exclaim that she simply just gave up trying to understand them.

"Now we'll have to go through it everyday."she sighed.