One of the maids ladled a rather small amount of oatmeal into a mug for Ceres, and added milk and cream in it, and sprinkled ground cinnamon on it. She put two pancake puff on a plate before her, and several dishes of different jams. She also put a goblet of fresh cut apples and bosc pears next to them.

"Butterflies!"she exclaimed.

Her pastry chef would always surprise them making the puffs in different shapes. After having served Ceres her breakfast, the maid then offered the puff to her tutor, then Fayruza and Malwina. Such it went down the table, serving the other girls according to their rank.

Today's breakfast would be another 'etiquette breakfast' as Malwina called it, when it would be a lesson for Ceres, to learn dining in state. One had to follow etiquette even in meals. The tutor dined with them, and would grade on how well the meal went. No one would eat until Ceres, and the meal would end exactly when Ceres put down her utensils by crossing them over the plate, signaling the meal was over.

Sometimes the tutor would sit at the head of the table, and do that instead of Ceres. She was first lady at her own court, but if she dined with her parents, or at the Imperial court, she would cede precedence to her parents, or the Imperial family.

"We don't have to do lessons today!"exclaimed Ceres. "It's so I can show you the portraits in the galleries. Mama and Papa will be viewing later, too! When they're not here, we view often. But it's always so much better when they're here and we can see each other."

"I am guessing you've met the princess and his lordship?"Malwina asked Capetia.

"Yes. When I arrived."Capetia said nervously.

She found them a little intimidating, especially Kunzite.

"Not so."Ceres spoke to her. "I don't think so."

Venusians could read one's body language and emotions so perfectly, it was useless to hide one's mind.

"I can't imagine Your Grace finding either of them so."

They walked down long corridors.

"These are the rooms closes to my living quarters."

Only a few people were allowed into those rooms. Even fewer into the parlours or bedchamber, and the boudoirs next to them.

"Those rooms have the beautiful view of the courtyards and fields in the entire palace!"

When they weren't doors leading to balconies, some of the windows were huge. There were plenty of hexagonal windows, too. And the views from them certainly were beautiful.

"The galleries where they hang are some ways away. This is my schoolroom."

"The very worst room in the entire palace."said Malwina.

"Only sometimes."said Fayruza.

They walked into a large room, where in the front was a chalkboard, and there were several long tables before it. All the girls in the Cerean court took most of their lessons with her. It was smaller than most of the other rooms, but still very large.

Leaving the schoolroom, the group went into another room.

"And this is my study! Here I open and answer my correspondence! I keep everything, too!"

She gestured towards the wall a little to the left of the desk. On it were pictures, drawings, sculptures and dolls among other things.

"These are all things that I've been sent from my parents' subject here on Venus and on Earth! Letters, too."

There was a smaller desk, with many pieces of parchment organized neatly.

"There are actually two large galleries. One with the investitures, and one with the Cerean senshi, but you can get to both from the study."

"The investitures?"asked Capetia.

"When you're invested with the title. I was born to the purple, so I was invested with the role when I was born."

"Born to the purple?"asked Capetia.

"It means she was born to a reigning monarch."Fayruza said.

"My mother was already Princess of Venus when I was born. So you don't want to see the portrait when I was invested. Almost all Duchesses of Ceres are born to the purple, so almost all of us were painted as infants. Or small children, so the title is rarely incumbent for long."

"I would like to see those."

Ceres pointed out all the portraits in the gallery. Malwina and Fayruza had also visited the gallery many times, during history lessons.

"Mama wasn't born to the purple, so she was invested when she was older! The robes still don't fit! And she was too old to be bundled in them."

Ceres gestured a portrait of Minako as a little girl. She was dressed in the Cerean ducal robes and wore the ducal coronet. Ceres was right in that the ducal robes were a bit too big.

"The robes are put away. Mama wore them, but I was bundled in them. Mine is in the very, very center, since I am the current duchess."

Indeed it was. The light from the windows hit the portrait perfectly, making it much more noticeable than the others. She was bundled in what appeared to be the same robe that Minako wore in the portrait.

"I think is very sweet, Your Grace."Capetia smiled.

Ceres looked a bit embarrassed, as she played with her fan.

"I will like it much better when I am painted as senshi."