The room was usually orderly and organized, but that was more due to the fact that the one of the owners was so tidy. In some things they were complete opposites. One of them sat on a settee by the window.

"Something wrong?"asked Artemis, as he climbed on the settee. "You look so gloomy. Who'd have thought that I'd ever see the princess of Venus so down in the dumps? It's usually you the one cheering me up."he chuckled. "What's the matter? Where you crying?"he sounded alarmed. "Gee, I didn't know you'd take it so hard! Uh, is it because of Pluto's reaction to the news? I guess she never imagined such a thing, and it took her completely by surprise. Was it that you thought maybe something similar had happened to you? There's nothing to worry about there, you know. I know perfectly well, for a fact that you are descended from Aphrodite, but not in the way Pluto is from Chronos. It was a perfectly normal-"

"Oh, Artemis, just shut up!"she exclaimed.

"Gee, sorry."

He didn't know what to do.

"Is it because your husband insists you keep the room so organized? I remember before you married, you usually seemed more at home in, uh, not quite a clutter. Although you could always find what you needed. You only lost other things."he chuckled.

"Kunzite is not really my husband! Not really!"she told him. "You're just making everything worse!"

"I always thought that people went to Venusians if they had trouble with their marriages. I never thought Venusians themselves ever had problems."Jupiter sounded amused.

Solaria looked just as amuse as they sat on the veranda, while Artemis told them about his little chat with Venus.

"You know,"he said. "you're quite right there, Jupiter. During the Silver Millennium, when I lived on Venus, I never saw this kind of thing. Hmm,"he looked thoughtful. "do you suppose it could have something to do with the fact that he's not fromVenus?"

Solaria looked blank.

"What does that have to do with anything? I've heard intermarrying, even from different star systems isn't uncommon."she said.

Artemis nodded.

"I guess you're right. Still, I'm a bit worried. It's very rare that I ever see Princess Venus in tears."

Jupiter nodded.

"She's always so happy, cheering everyone up."

"Maybe you should ask Nephrite to speak to Kunzite."Artemis suggested.

"Why should she ask someone who doesn't have any idea to speak to someone else?"Solaria asked him. "You could do it. You already know, after all."

"Huh?"Artemis didn't look too pleased with Solaria's suggestion. "So how's Pluto?"he asked.

"She's all right. A bit confused. She keeps remembering different things."Jupiter said. "We may need to bring someone to probe her mind. They come to her in dreams, and she's been very restless."

"That's not good."said Artemis.

"But I'm pretty sure she'll be all right."she assured him.

"Of course."he agreed.

"And I think Kunzite must be in the library, Artemis."Solaria told him.

"If he's not patrolling the Palace!"said Jupiter.

"Uh, but I thought Nephrite was going to talk to him."

"I don't think so."Jupiter answered. "I thought we agreed Artemis was the one who would."

Artemis turned, and walked away, without answering, leaving Solaria and Jupiter arguing over whether or not they had agreed he would. He wished he hadn't said anything, to begin with. Kunzite always gave the impression that you were interrupting, or annoying him. Except if you were King Endymion or Queen Serenity. Now that was an idea! Maybe he could ask Queen Serenity to speak to him. For sure, they were the only ones who didn't seem to annoy Kunzite. Maybe that was the whole problem. After all, Artemis knew just how outgoing, and talkative Venus could be. She always loved to chit chat with anyone who came her way. The problem must be that Kunzite snapped at her every time she spoke to him. Yes, Artemis congratulated himself on having solved the whole thing on his own. Now there would be no need to ask anyone to talk to Kunzite. Or maybe there was! After all, he still had to solve the problem. He thought again, of asking the king or queen. Or he could just ask Nephrite himself. He was so absorbed in his own thoughts and not looking where he was going, that he bumped into Jadeite. Or rather, Jadeite bumped into him. Jadeite tripped, and crashed into a small table with some of Mars's favorite figurines on it. The small ornaments fell on the floor and broke. Artemis decided he shouldn't stay long. When Mars found out they were broken, well, he was just thankful he wasn't going to be in Jadeite's shoes. He ran from the corridor, leaving Jadeite to clean up the mess, and hoping he hadn't noticed which cat he had tripped over.

"Where have you been?"asked Luna crossly.

"Huh?"he hadn't even heard her footsteps.

"I've been looking everywhere for you."she said, frowning.

"Uh, oh, I've just been enjoying the wonderful view of the sunset from the balcony. He he."he said, nervously.

He wished he hadn't.

"You've been day dreaming, while the king and queen could be needing our advise?!"exclaimed Luna.

"Oh, gee, sorry. I was just day dreaming about whether Pluto enjoyed yesterday's lunch. I mean, everyone else seemed to."

Luna began scolding him, all the way back the library.