Theme # 2: Love Letters
"I know it has to be around here somewhere," Small Lady Serenity was wandering the halls of the Crystal Palace searching for the small ball that had gotten away from her. She had nearly given up her search when she saw a small door standing ajar. It was highly unlikely that the ball could have rolled through such a small opening, but it was worth a try.
When Serenity pushed the door open, she was disappointed to see that it was merely a cramped storage closet that had obviously not been opened for several decades. A quick scan of the room assured her that her ball was elsewhere, but something in her heart told her to stay, to check it out.
Sitting on an old crate, she pulled a box towards her, blowing off a thick layer of dust. She removed the lid and found the box filled with brightly coloured envelopes. Picking up one of the envelopes, she recognized her mother's handwriting, though it was messier than her usual. The envelope read, "My dearest Mamo-chan." Mamo-chan? That was what Mama called Papa when she thought no one was listening. When had she written this?
Serenity fought the urge to tear the envelope open, slipping the letter out carefully instead. In messy childlike writing, the letter begged "Mamo-chan" to reconsider and please see a lonely Usagi again. "Mama must have written this when Papa broke up with her," Serenity mused to herself. Her mother had told her many stories about her romance with the King, but it was very different to read her mother's own words, to feel the emotion in them.
Carefully putting the letter back in it's envelope, the young princes chose another from the box. This one was written in her father's neat handwriting. It was a well written, grammatically correct admission of love. The date at the top placed it within the first year of their relationship.
As Serenity continued to read through the letters, she started putting them in order based on the meticulous dates in her father's letters, and fitting her mother's in between them according to events. They read like a romance novel. When she reached the bottom of the box, the princess's cheeks were covered in tears and her missing ball was completely forgotten.
"If only there was some way that I could see them back then," mused Serenity. "They seemed so passionate, so fun." She closed up the box and carefully closed the door to the storage closet, not realizing that she would get to meet the characters of her favourite love story very soon.