Trini stared back at the girl, and smiled cheerfully. The girl took off the hood of her cloak. She had cheerful gray eyes and ice blue hair in a large French braid, going down her back disappearing in the cloak, but she was sure it was long.

"Hello," she said, in Trini's accent. She picked up the teapot carefully, and handed it to her. "Tea?"

Trini peeked inside the cup. She poured some in a cup, and took a sip. "UGH!" They might as well had put boiled water in the pot instead! This stuff was nasty.

The young girl smiled again. "You get used to it."

"Do you live here?" Trini asked, placing her cup down.

The girl shook her head. "No. I've just been waiting to speak to the King. I've been here for a few days now."

"But—Gene just walked in now!" she protested. "You couldn't have been waiting."

"I'm female, silly. I have to wait until the King isn't busy."

"But what if he's always busy?" Trini yelled, making the maids look at her breifly.

"Then I will always wait here. By the way, my name is Olivia-Alexa."

Trini raised her eyebrows, but tried not to be rude. "That's a strange name… no offence!"

"None taken," Olivia-Alexa said grimly. "I hate my name!" She looked at Trini again. "Here in Harpermoon—females aren't respected at all. So daughters are named after their mothers. My birth mother's name was Alexa, but—she's not around anymore." She sighed. "Then my dad remarried, to this awful witch, Olivia. So you can just call me Alexa."

"What if they have two daughters?"

Alexa frowned, and looked at her hands. "The—the King—he—well, he…" She took a sip of the warm water again. "He," her voice shook, "throws them to the wolves."

Trini gasped. "That's horrible!" She hoped dearly that Princess Rue's reincarnation wasn't one of those unlucky babies. She shook the idea out of her head. "Sorry, I never mentioned my name. It's Serenity, my mother's name too. The name runs in the royal family."

Alexa looked up briskly. "Your royalty?"

Trini shook her head, again. "Not anymore. You can just call me Trini, ok?"

"Sure. What moon where you a princess of?"

"The Earth's moon," she replied, proudly.

"Earth?" Alexa looked just like Gene did when she answered his question before. "Where's—erth?"

"Earth," Trini corrected. "I'm guessing now I'm in a different galaxy, because everyone knew that Earth's moon ruled all the moons."

Alexa laughed nervously. "Cool."

A cough in the background made Trini turn around. Gene was standing there, staring at her with a dead glare.

"You never told me you were royalty," he said.

Trini stood up. "It never came up, I guess."

"I see… Well follow me." He walked into the room and ushered her to come with him. Trini took one last look at Olivia-Alexa, then followed him in.

The throne room looked exactly like her old one did. Just a large marble floor leading to three large and important chairs. The middle one, however, was far larger, while the other two were small. A king—an old man showing his riches in his cloths—was sitting in the middle chair, looking extremely important, yet showing how fat he was.

Trini curtsied as far as she could go, then looked up at him, smiling. "Your grace."

"Majesty," he corrected. He cleared his throat, then continued, "Gene here tells me you're new. Is that so?" He didn't let her answer. "I trust by now you know the rules here." He smiled with amusement in his eyes. "It's such a pity you're a girl. For one, you're not a woman, and your fair beautiful. For two, you'll have to be a servant for Gene. It is another one of our laws. 'If a male gives a female a home, that female will serve him.'"

"I'm not asking for a home," Trini protested, but he ignored her.

"Gene also says you're royalty. Is that so?" Again, he didn't let her reply. "Well, you're going to be just like the females here in Harpermoon: washed up slugs with nothing on their mind but work; work; work!" He laughed joyfully, but Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom found funny about nothing her situation.

"Gabrielle," she growled to herself. Fortunately, no one heard.

"You're dismissed," The King said, after his moment with laughter, with a wave of the hand.

"Oh, please, sir, might you do one favor for me," Trini said bravely. He looked up frowning, but shrugged, which she guess was a 'Depends.' "Your majesty, I met this g—person—who's been waiting for you for three days."

He raised an eyebrow. "And?"

She sighed. He was going to deny it for sure. "I was wondering if you could see that person—now."

"Gender?"

"Female, sir," she groaned.

He rolled his eyes. "She'll just have to wait 'til I'm not busy."

"But, lord—she's been waiting for some time, living only off of boiled water!" Trini stood up, outraged. "Your majesty, she is one of your people!"

"She's a girl," he said simply, waving her away again.

"No!" she screamed, kicking the ground. "I won't let her wait for any longer!"

The King sighed. "Fine." He looked at his guards. "Bring her in, I suppose." He looked at Trini again. "I'm only doing this because I can't stand a beautiful lady upset."

She growled. A few moments later, Alexa came in, looking confusingly at Trini. Then she looked at the King, smiled broadly, then curtsied greatly. 'She's had practice,' Trini thought.

"Your majesty," Alexa said, then stood up. "Grandmother is sick, sir."

The king stood up instantly. "What!" He suddenly looked hurt.

"She's been sick," she went on. "But I couldn't tell you."

His face turned purple. "GUARDS!" Guards came over (A/N: blah). Trini was now confused. "Go to my mothers house now with the Royal Nurse. GO!"

"I'm confused," Trini blurted out.

Alexa curtsied to her king again, then pushed Trini out of the room. When they were out, she said, "The king is my father."

"WHAT?!" Trini yelled. "Your—your father?"

Olivia-Alexa nodded.

"Then how come you're not sitting on a throne? Or wearing a dress? Or—"

"Haven't you learned anything yet, Serenity?" Alexa demanded, when they were sitting down again. "Females aren't important. Not at all!"

"But—you're a princess. Doesn't that mean anything?"

"It only means that I live here." Alexa took a sip of water, then sighed. "It must've been nice, to grow up where u grew up."

Trini shook her head. "Not really." She blinked. "Well, compared to this place, the Moon Kingdom—I mean Earth's moon—would be heaven."

Gene now came out of the room. He looked at Trini. "Let's go. I have a few houses that need cleaning."

"A few houses?" Trini asked, standing up. Alexa giggled.

"Males may inherit more than one home," she explained.

Trini smiled. "Well—I'm not cleaning more than one house, sir." She bit her lip when she saw Gene's face tighten. "A princess doesn't clean." She just realized what she said, and hit her forehead. Sitting on a throne seemed great at this time. She forgot how good she had it.

"Well it's not your decision to make," he said, stomping on the floor with his right foot.

"And it's yours?"

"Yes it is. And it's the Kings."

Suddenly Trini felt strange. She saw the face of Gene, and knew he felt it too. She looked behind her, and saw Alexa stand up. Now something strange happened. The air around them turned blue: the color of Alexa's hair. Rain now poured outside, and lightning flashed. But that was nothing…

Mist swarmed around Trini. Except this wasn't black and red; it was blue and white. She mist tightened around her, and then worked its way to Gene. Alexa, however, was unaffected. Now she couldn't breathe. Gene's face was turning blue.

"Gabrielle!" Trini gasped with the last of her breath. Gene fell to the ground. Trini looked one last look at Alexa before she plunged into darkness. She looked like she was in a trance.