Jupiter was not…
Unhappy.
She wasn't unhappy.
She wasn't quite happy, either. It was a by-product, she knew, of remembering Seraphi's life, of realizing how much responsibility would be on her shoulders once she received the Holdings allotted to her in the will of the Great Queen. She already felt, hovering on her shoulders.
The Sword of Damocles, hovering above my head. Only it is not only my own life at risk. Seraphi's death killed so many more people than I could ever imagine. I… I want to live. I want to do so many things. I want to change the Verse for the better. I'm also not really afraid of dying. I'm afraid to lose myself. To lose Jupiter Jones in a cosmic twist of fate. Even if I reoccurred again, I wouldn't be Jupiter anymore, and there is no guarantee that I will even remember this life, let alone Seraphi's.
But I am not afraid to go if it means protecting the people I hold dear.
She did not feel unhappy. Jupiter Jones was perhaps, she realized, content. Content with the fact that she was not alone. Content with the fact that she was setting in motions things that would shake the very Verse itself.
Content to live a few years, precious and few, on Earth until it was time to retake the mantle of an Entitled Queen.
After I am twelve, I have to leave Earth. It can't be my alcazar until I know for sure that it is protected. And I can't take any member of my biological family with me. Because I can't excuse them. I can't claim them. They would still be considered live-stock.
Jupiter looked to Aleska Jones, mother, rock, and unknowingly the very person who Jupiter feared for the most. Because she had borne her, she had held her as the most precious thing in the Verse without knowing what her genetics or her soul truly meant.
But because she was Jupiter, and she's, and that was enough.
She looked at Aleska and knew it would hurt the most to leave Aleska behind.
"Jupiter," Aleska called, smiling, face soft and happy, "Come! Our Cousins are here, and Nino."
Jupiter's heart twisted. In grief yet not really experienced, in the future sorrow she would inflict on her terrestrial family. But she smiled.
She beamed. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
"Coming!"
But not yet. I'm not Queen Jupiter Jones of House Abrasax just yet.
Just Jupiter.
And that is more than enough for now.
So, Jupiter Jones was not unhappy. Nor was she happy.
But she felt content, and for now, it would be enough.
Chapter 100, I am feeling a time skip.
So...
Get ready for wolf angels around chapter 120ish or so my lovelies~
