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p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"The earth is beautiful, so blue and green and full of life. There's wind here, too. And scents that Serenity has never encountered before. So different from the moon. She loves it. She takes another step on the soft green grass, hears the four girls behind /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Serenity, we really should go back now!" Mercury says worriedlybr /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Indeed, if the Queen finds out we're here, we're breaking the rules, Princess," Jupiter /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Watch out for the roots, clumsy head, you'll trip!" Mars snaps and pull Serenity out of the way of a clump of tree /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Hush, all of you!" hisses Venus, who's always on alert and ready for /a rustle, something breaks, a deep voice mumbles /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Who's there? Come into the light," Venus orders, and Serenity feels the others close up around /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Worry not, fair maiden of Venus. We mean you no harm."br /A man with long white hair comes out from the shadows, and three other follow, a blonde shorthaired, one man with brown long hair and another blonde who also has long hair. Serenity looks at them all. Humans. How fascinating! She tilts her head. The powers she has just begun to grow into tickles her /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Why is your friend hiding?" she asks and peeks over Mercury's /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Not hiding, my lady, waiting for the right entrance."br /The voice is deep and full of laughter. The man that fills her vison has hair like the blackest sky and eyes as blue as the deepest seas on earth. Serenity feels her heart reach out, singing in a very confusing burst of /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I am Endymion, prince of earth, my lady. Please, do not fear us, we truly mean you no harm, but we are, alas, forbidden to meet."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Endymion," she repeats softly. The blue eyes glimmer. Her heart aches and Serenity knows that nothing that is emonly /emgood will come from this meeting. But she does not care. All she wants in this moment, is to be with him, to breathe his /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I'm Serenity, princes of the Moon," she says and curtsies deeply, as a visiting royal should when meeting another. Endymion of Earth bows deeply and smiles at her, only at her, and Serenity blushes and feels her heart do another joyous burst. Not good. But still, it's not like she can control who her soul reaches for. No one /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Is this your first trip to our planet, my lady?" the prince asks her, and she nods, still mostly concealed behind her Senshi. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"If you will allow it, we would be honoured to show you this area. The palace is close, if you would prefer to go there."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Ah, I… I do not think that would be wise, my lord… we do not truly have permission to be here," Serenity mumbles. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"You are lucky, my lady, to have the means to travel between planets. I wish I could, for I long to see more of our galaxy. But please, do not linger in the shadows, walk with us?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMars gives her an invisible poke in the back followed by a drag of her dress. emCareful/em. Serenity puts her hands behind her back, laces her fingers together. emOn guard/em, she signals back. If she has learned anything, it's that always be on guard even though her own heart may tell her all is /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Of course, my lord, we'd be honoured."/span/p
p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"They managed to stay on earth until after twilight, when a cluster of moon guards come from seemingly thin air. Serenity bows to the head guard, Merila, bids the prince farewell, and travels home to the moon./span/p
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p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Daughter."br /Her mother finds her the day after, in the garden at the peak that allows her to look down on earth. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Mother."br /Queen Serenity stands in silence beside her, and Serenity sneaks a glance at the woman whom she herself resembles so much. Their hair and eye colour are different, but otherwise they could be sisters, twins, for Queen Serenity still looks young and the many years she has behind her don't show in any /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Have you already found the one to hold a piece of your soul?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Yes," Serenity says, because there is no sense in trying to talk this away. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"And it's the human prince, the crown prince?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Yes."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Oh, my sweet daughter. Your heart does not make it easy for you."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"No," Serenity agrees and looks out over the blue and green planet once more. He is down there, walking amongst flowers and trees and real wind. Someday, some time, she will see him again./span/p
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p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"The earth is beautiful, so blue and green and full of life. There's wind here, too. And scents that Serenity has never encountered before. So different from the moon. She loves it. She takes another step on the soft green grass, hears the four girls behind /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Serenity, we really should go back now!" Mercury says worriedlybr /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Indeed, if the Queen finds out we're here, we're breaking the rules, Princess," Jupiter /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Watch out for the roots, clumsy head, you'll trip!" Mars snaps and pull Serenity out of the way of a clump of tree /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Hush, all of you!" hisses Venus, who's always on alert and ready for /a rustle, something breaks, a deep voice mumbles /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Who's there? Come into the light," Venus orders, and Serenity feels the others close up around /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Worry not, fair maiden of Venus. We mean you no harm."br /A man with long white hair comes out from the shadows, and three other follow, a blonde shorthaired, one man with brown long hair and another blonde who also has long hair. Serenity looks at them all. Humans. How fascinating! She tilts her head. The powers she has just begun to grow into tickles her /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Why is your friend hiding?" she asks and peeks over Mercury's /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Not hiding, my lady, waiting for the right entrance."br /The voice is deep and full of laughter. The man that fills her vison has hair like the blackest sky and eyes as blue as the deepest seas on earth. Serenity feels her heart reach out, singing in a very confusing burst of /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I am Endymion, prince of earth, my lady. Please, do not fear us, we truly mean you no harm, but we are, alas, forbidden to meet."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Endymion," she repeats softly. The blue eyes glimmer. Her heart aches and Serenity knows that nothing that is emonly /emgood will come from this meeting. But she does not care. All she wants in this moment, is to be with him, to breathe his /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"I'm Serenity, princes of the Moon," she says and curtsies deeply, as a visiting royal should when meeting another. Endymion of Earth bows deeply and smiles at her, only at her, and Serenity blushes and feels her heart do another joyous burst. Not good. But still, it's not like she can control who her soul reaches for. No one /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Is this your first trip to our planet, my lady?" the prince asks her, and she nods, still mostly concealed behind her Senshi. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"If you will allow it, we would be honoured to show you this area. The palace is close, if you would prefer to go there."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Ah, I… I do not think that would be wise, my lord… we do not truly have permission to be here," Serenity mumbles. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"You are lucky, my lady, to have the means to travel between planets. I wish I could, for I long to see more of our galaxy. But please, do not linger in the shadows, walk with us?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanMars gives her an invisible poke in the back followed by a drag of her dress. emCareful/em. Serenity puts her hands behind her back, laces her fingers together. emOn guard/em, she signals back. If she has learned anything, it's that always be on guard even though her own heart may tell her all is /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Of course, my lord, we'd be honoured."/span/p
p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"They managed to stay on earth until after twilight, when a cluster of moon guards come from seemingly thin air. Serenity bows to the head guard, Merila, bids the prince farewell, and travels home to the moon./span/p
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p class="MsoNoSpacing"span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Daughter."br /Her mother finds her the day after, in the garden at the peak that allows her to look down on earth. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Mother."br /Queen Serenity stands in silence beside her, and Serenity sneaks a glance at the woman whom she herself resembles so much. Their hair and eye colour are different, but otherwise they could be sisters, twins, for Queen Serenity still looks young and the many years she has behind her don't show in any /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Have you already found the one to hold a piece of your soul?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Yes," Serenity says, because there is no sense in trying to talk this away. br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"And it's the human prince, the crown prince?"br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Yes."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"Oh, my sweet daughter. Your heart does not make it easy for you."br /span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"No," Serenity agrees and looks out over the blue and green planet once more. He is down there, walking amongst flowers and trees and real wind. Someday, some time, she will see him again./span/p