"I hope we also get to go to Elysium."said Fayruza, as she and Malwina took several clothes, which were to make into dresses. "It's everyone's dream to go Elysium."
Traveling with the entire court was no easy or quick task. Ceres had given all of her staff different cloths with which to make new dresses for themselves for this trip.
"I thought everyone's dream was to go to the Moon."said Malwina.
"It is everyone's dream to go to the Moon, but also Elysium. That's where the Crown Prince's court is. When he and the Crown Princess are there, anyway."
"When we are there, I will make sure Mama and Papa allow us to go to Elysium."said Ceres confidently. "Oh, the chintz and damask."she selected.
Fayruza took those aside. Malwina showed Ceres some sketches she had come with. Malwina always came up with the patterns for Ceres's dresses, and was the best with her needle.
"I like these for the suzani."said Ceres, selecting some of the patterns.
After what seemed like forever, everyone was finally ready to go. It was a good thing the journey wasn't long.
"I wish I could teleport."said Ceres, impatiently. "Instead, I have to go with everyone else!"
"Teleporting from one planet to another, Your Grace? I don't even a shittenou could to that."said Malwina.
"At least from the spaceport."
"Then you wouldn't get to make a state entry."Fayruza pointed out.
"And I can't wait to meet Princess Larimar."said Ceres, referring to Kunzite's younger sister.
Minako also had a couple of brothers, but they were married to senshi from other planets. Sons were useful to make successful marriages, therefore, alliances. Planetary princess could have as many sons as they liked, but only one daughter. The heiress apparent would then have her mother's undivided attention to be groomed to become the next princess and senshi. The tradition went back to Selene I's fifty daughters, and the succession crisis which had ended up with forty nine of them executed by their eldest sister.
Minako and Kunzite had no sons, and Ceres had grown up being the only child of two doting parents, so she didn't miss having siblings.
"What do you say to Princess Larimar?"she asked Fayruza. "Would my rank be higher than hers in the Terran order of precedence? So does she curtsey to me, or I curtsey to her? How low? How long?"
"I've never met her, Your Grace. But I would suppose you say to her anything you would say to anyone else you met. I have no rank, so obviously, I would curtsey to her. Very lowly, and until I was told to rise. Your Grace would only be behind His Lordship and Her Highness, so I suppose you rank higher."
Some people could take someone of a lower rank going before them as an insult, and Ceres was anxious to get nothing wrong. At her court, she was first lady, and always ranked above everyone else. At her parents' court, she ceded that place to her parents. If she went to the Lunarian court, she would rank way behind Small Lady, who as a granddaughter of the reigning empress, and would in turn would cede to her parents, and the planetary senshi.