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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Sylvia's Chambers In Wakefield Castle
Jerusalem, Israel, Earth
November 23, 986
Meanwhile, while several Princesses often were otherwise occupied with their secret training as
Sailor Scouts on the Moon, back on Earth, particularly in the area of Jerusalem, Israel, Sylvia Lucille
Wakefield was with her younger siblings Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses in her chambers just a few minutes
before 2:30 local time on the morning of November 23, 986. Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses hadn't been
able to sleep well enough in their chambers during the current night. For a sudden thunderstorm that was
now heading to the east had just begun to rage in the Jerusalem area. So they all came to Sylvia's
chambers to be with her, hoping that she might be able to settle them down at least a little bit, if not a lot.
They were all currently sitting on her bed. While she sat on a chair just in front of them all, at the same time,
in fact.
She was talking to them all for at least a little while here, when a rather strong wind suddenly blew
open one of her windows. When it did so, in came a message canister that she'd not actually expected to
receive from anyone else so soon after she'd gotten one not long before from Queen Serenity. Rebecca,
who was also often called "Becky" or "Becca," then said, "I see something just came through your window
here, Sylvia."
"I see that, Rebecca. Please take Martha, Ulysses, and yourself into my bathroom until I say
otherwise. Just in case at least one more thing comes unexpectedly through my window again, I don't want
to take the chance that any of you will get hit by it or them, if I really don't have to do that, Rebecca. I
happen to know that thing that just came through my window is for me. And if I can, I'll explain later how
I know that. No questions right now, from any of you, please. Please do as I say, though."
So, rather reluctantly, Rebecca did as Sylvia had just told her to do with their siblings. And she
took them all into Sylvia's bathroom as she'd been told to do by Sylvia moments before, in fact. As soon
as Rebecca did so, Sylvia then briefly looked out her window, so that she could see if any other things were
heading right for her Wakefield Castle chambers. She saw two other message canisters heading directly
for the exact same window. And they were both heading toward it from different directions as they both
lined themselves up for their runs to her chambers in that castle. Both of those canisters were making
gradual arcs toward her now-open window, as one came in primarily from the northwest, and the other
came in primarily from the east. The one that'd just entered her chambers had come into it mainly from the
north, after having passed over a good portion of the castle mainly from the southwest. That window was
in the northern wall of her chambers. Her chambers were placed near the northeastern corner of the castle,
if not in it, and in an upper level of it. Even though rain was now beginning to enter her chambers, due to
the fact that she'd not yet closed the window in question, she left it open, so that it wouldn't blow open
again for at least a little while. She waited at least a few moments or so more to close that window. For
those canisters still had to enter her chambers, obviously enough. As soon as they were all in it, then, and
she was sufficiently sure that nothing else was heading her way from elsewhere in the area or elsewhere on
Earth, she quickly closed and blocked her window as much as she could do so here. She did that here so
that it hopefully wouldn't blow open again for at least a little while, of course.
Then she picked up all the message canisters from where they'd each landed on her floor here.
And she brought each of them to the nearest table. With that done here, she then lit an unlit lantern with
the help of a torch from a somewhat random sconce somewhere in the nearby hall, blowing out a few other
lanterns in her chambers just before she did so. Then she closed and quite securely bolted her door again
here. For she really didn't want to be disturbed needlessly by anyone else, if it could possibly be avoided
by her at all, in fact. Then she set the lantern in question on that table. With that done as well, she then
began opening each of the message canisters that'd just entered her own Wakefield Castle chambers,
starting with the first one.
The first one was from Queen Serenity. In it, there was a scroll with a short message from Queen
Serenity. That scroll said to Sylvia, "Sylvia, a Moon Kingdom satellite will be about halfway between your
likely location and that of Prince Darien's likely location at about 3:10 am your time on November 23, 986.
You'll need to be in your chambers and in your Sailor Scout state by 3:05 am your time on that same day.
If your siblings ask where Sylvia went, say that she remembered that she had something to do that she'd
forgotten to do earlier. Tell them that you are a friend of Sylvia's. And to prove it, show the painting that
Michelle painted of you in both your states of being, just before you left us a while ago. Tell them that
Sylvia will hopefully be back from wherever she went as soon as she can be back from there, God willing,
of course, while you're in your Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse. Tell them that you'll
need to bring them all somewhere rather distant. And that you'll be bringing them to friends of Sylvia's for
at least a little while. Don't tell them exactly where, at least not yet. Don't say more to them than that,
except to say that their sister Sylvia trusts you and your friends to take care of them while she's away from
Wakefield Castle. When that satellite is almost in the necessary location above Earth, you'll hear three
short beeps from your locket. Within three minutes or so after you hear the last beep, you'll then have to
say the words, 'Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Sailor and Sibling Teleport,' if you want your siblings to accompany
you as you leave the Jerusalem area of Earth again. If you don't, then you must leave the sibling-related
part of that phrase out, of course. You'll all be met by Prince Darien at the Kyoto Area Spaceport by
10:30 am local time there the same day. You're all to wait there until Prince Rolando joins you within the
next two hours after 10:30 am local time, at most. He'll arrive there in the same manner that all four of you
Wakefields did earlier. When he eventually shows up somewhere within about five to ten feet of where
you Wakefields are with Darien, there, you'll then have to say, Sylvia, within five minutes after he does so,
'Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Titanic World Transfer Access, now! Authorization, Junior Sailor Scout Skyhorse
Sigma-628-44-972!' That should allow you and all five of your current companions to show up here on
the Moon, if you say it before 12:30 pm Kyoto time, I think. That authorization code will bring you to the
Moon, and bring you to a certain location on it within no more than a few minutes after you say it. I'll be
in the Crystal Chalice Garden on the Crystal Palace's grounds in Moon City, when you get here to the
Moon. I'll be near the bench where Serena found you talking with Darien and Rolando the day you
became the Sailor Scout Junior Sailor Skyhorse. Prince Daniel will be with me. And after you all get here,
then I'll tell you more later about why I needed to see you very soon. You'll also need to tell your siblings
to follow Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando wherever they may lead them, after you all get here. After
the two of us are then alone again, I'll want to talk to you for at least a little while, Sylvia."
Serenity had said only a few things more, before she'd signed that message to Sylvia. Then Sylvia
rolled up the scroll that Serenity had most recently sent her. She then went to one of her closets. And she
found a large sack there. Then she began taking certain things from shelves and hangers in that closet. And
she placed those things as carefully and as quickly as she could in that sack. By the time that she did so,
the sack was about a third full, at most. She then brought that sack back over to the table on which Queen
Serenity's canister was still sitting. She checked to see if Queen Serenity had sent her anything else. And
Queen Serenity had actually done so, in fact. She'd sent four roses to Sylvia, two of which were pink, one
red, and one white. The white one was for Ulysses, the pink ones for Rebecca and Martha, and the red
one for Sylvia. Princes Darien and Rolando would also be wearing red roses. For they were currently
citizens-by-choice of the Moon Kingdom, just as Sylvia now was in her own life. Unlike all three of her
siblings, of course. The Moon Kingdom satellite that'd bring them first to Kyoto, Japan, on Earth, and then
to Moon City on the Moon, would then lock onto the positions of those roses. And hopefully the presence
of the aforementioned roses would then make it possible somehow for Sylvia, Darien, and Rolando to
travel rather quickly to the Moon with Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses, of course. That was once Sylvia
said the necessary phrase as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, after the six of them were all together again at the
Kyoto Area Spaceport sufficiently well, quite naturally enough, in fact.
Sylvia quickly opened the other two canisters she'd just received from elsewhere on Earth. And
both of them also had messages for her in them. She read them both very quickly. For they were both
rather short, before she put them into her sack too. She put in a few more roses from both canisters,
among other things that were also in those canisters, in her sack. She put other things from both canisters
in her sack as well, until she no longer wanted to do that at all.
Most, if not all, of the things she didn't put in her sack, she then took to a secret underground
cavern by using a secret passageway buried deep inside the rather thick walls of Wakefield Castle that ran
between a hidden alcove in her chambers and that secret underground cavern. She, of course, wasted no
unnecessary time in taking most, if not all, of the things that she didn't put in her sack to that underground
cavern by using a cart near one end of that secret passageway to get to the other. It took her not more than
two minutes to make one round-trip with those things. And not more than ten minutes in all to make all the
necessary trips to that secret underground cavern at least 200 feet below Wakefield Castle, and at least
400 feet to the east of its outermost eastern walls. Which, of course, meant that she'd have had to have
been traveling quite fast to get between that alcove and that cavern so quickly during each trip. How fast
she was going during each of those trips between those locations, she didn't really know at those times, nor
did she really care at all. For she knew that before too much longer, she'd have to get into her Sailor Scout
state of being, for all the obvious reasons, of course. All she really cared about was being ready to leave
the Jerusalem area when she had to leave it, with or without her siblings accompanying her out of it. And
doing so before anyone else found out that she'd vanished from the area too quickly who didn't need to find
it out for at least a while. After making her last trip back to her hidden alcove from the secret underground
cavern, she then quite quickly placed the things hiding the secret passageway between her alcove and that
cavern back where she'd put them when she'd accessed that passageway some time before, if she'd moved
them at all. Then she hid her alcove again by sliding a wall back in front of it again. She did that in the
hopes that nobody else would likely be able to find it before it was too late to keep her from eventually
going to the Moon with her siblings, if they were even able to find it at all.
That done, she left a short note on one of her tables suggesting that she had gone off to visit
someone that was from somewhere in the area of Bethlehem. But she didn't identify that particular person
by name. For she really didn't want anyone to suspect that her note was faked at all, if it could be avoided
at all by her. She just basically said that she was going to visit someone there who she knew needed help
with certain farm animals. And that she was going there on foot. She said that she actually didn't know
if and whenever she'd ever be able to return to Wakefield Castle. And she said that someone in the area
of Bethlehem really needed her help at the current time. She said that she likely had enough provisions to
last her at least long enough to get to the Bethlehem area on foot. She said that she expected to be there
within one week, if not sooner than that, God willing. She said that she couldn't actually be any more
definite than that about her coming journey. Or at least she couldn't be more definite about it at the current
time. Then she signed the note, and weighted it down with at least one paperweight of hers. She did that
here so that if anyone else eventually came into her chambers anytime after she'd left them, they'd see it
easily enough.
That done, she quickly finished filling her sack with the necessary items, if she'd not already done
so, before she tied it off with a long enough rope, of course. She then set that sack on her bed, after
opening another window in the northern wall of her chambers, once she'd seen that the thunderstorm that'd
brought her siblings to see her in them was sufficiently over. That done, she then rather hurriedly made a
rope from a number of her cleanest and darkest blankets here. She soon tied that same rope to a nearby
trellis that was to one side of that window, once she tied yet another sack on the belt of the robe she was
now wearing. Inside that sack, she then placed all three of the canisters she'd most recently received from
Darien, Serenity, and Rolando. She then climbed out that window here. And she swung to the trellis.
After which she then descended to the ground by using that blanket-made rope behind an enormous
rosebush with hundreds, if not thousands, of roses on it. There was a vertical tunnel of sorts between the
top of that trellis and the ground. And she then descended on the rope made with blankets foot by foot,
very carefully indeed. She did this here so that her feet hopefully wouldn't actually step falsely as she kept
track of how far she'd descended on that rope by stepping on the necessary sections of that trellis. All
those sections of the trellis here were also quite securely fastened to the wall of the castle, for all the obvious
reasons, of course. Just as they'd been ever since shortly after the rosebush that she was now being hidden
from view behind had been planted in its current location at least five centuries earlier. She then made it
safely enough down to the ground just about fifteen to twenty minutes before three o'clock local time on
the morning of November 23, 986. Then she soon moved a moderately-sized boulder that couldn't
normally be seen from above until someone actually got within two feet of its top to one side. And she did
that here so that she could then access a rather secret tunnel that was both behind, and below, the rather
enormous rosebush under her very own Wakefield Castle chambers.
After she remembered exactly how to do so, accessing that tunnel took only a few more seconds,
at most. And then she was below ground within another minute. Five to ten seconds more, and she then
reached the bottom of the tunnel, landing on her feet with quite a bit of ease, considering the fact that she
was currently carrying a sack with three canisters in it on her belt. She soon palmed a nearby wall. And
a small opening appeared in it as a torch on the wall near where she'd just palmed it flickered to life. Then
she reached into her sack, and hastily grabbed each of the canisters in it up one at a time, just before she
placed them all in that opening. That done, she then palmed the wall again where she just had. And then
the torch that'd just flickered to life on the wall extinguished itself just as quickly as it'd flickered to life a few
moments or so before. When it did, the opening that she'd just placed the canisters in disappeared seconds
later. That then left her alone in the darkness where she now stood in the tunnel she'd just accessed
moments before again, of course.
She then transformed herself into Junior Sailor Skyhorse as quickly as she could, before she went
to where she'd landed originally in her current tunnel. That done, she then said, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse,
Eagle Wings Power On!" Two large wings of eagles' feathers appeared on the back of her Sailor Scout
uniform, but not on her actual physical back. And four smaller wings appeared on the back of her current
footwear, which was actually a pair of moccasins. Not the exact same ones that she'd ended up with when
she'd first transformed herself into Junior Sailor Skyhorse, as a matter of fact. But ones that were
somewhat similar to them, nevertheless. These moccasins that she was now wearing on her were of
doeskin dyed four different colors by her when she'd made them for herself as Sylvia Lucille Wakefield.
They had no rabbit fur or turtledove feathers on them. But they were made of doeskin that had been dyed
crimson, gold, royal blue, and white, as she'd earlier chosen to dye the various parts of those moccasins.
The toes of the moccasins she was currently wearing had been dyed white on the toes of them. While the
gold had been put on the soles, the crimson on the sides and top of them, and the royal blue on the heels
and the edges of them, as she'd earlier seen fit to dye the doeskin they'd both been made from, of course.
After all six wings soon appeared either on her uniform's back or on the backs of both her moccasins, she
then began rising from the bottom of the tunnel. She did this at least until she was able to reach out for a
ladder that she'd been earlier going down before she'd jumped off it, in order to get to the bottom of the
tunnel and store the canisters just received by her some time before. She did that here so that she could
begin climbing it until she was out of the tunnel again. She gripped that ladder a few seconds later. And
she quickly began ascending it again.
As she did so, she hoped that nothing bad was currently happening anywhere in the Moon
Kingdom, of course. She reached the surface below her chambers again no more than about a minute or
two later. Then she said, once she'd gotten sufficiently above ground again, and had put the boulder back
in its proper place to hide the tunnel it normally hid from people's view, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Eagle
Wings Power Off!" Her wings then disappeared again from the backs of her uniform and her moccasins.
Seconds later, at most, she was quite hastily climbing up the blanket-made rope she'd made earlier. Up
she went it as quickly as she could do so safely and easily enough here. And as soon as she got to the top
of the trellis, she then swung to the window's sill as safely and as quickly as she could swing to it. After
she'd done so easily enough, she then detached the blanket-made rope from the trellis as quickly as she
could. Then she untied the blankets from that very rope. And she soon hid all of them, and the sack she'd
put her three newest canisters in, back in her alcove after accessing it again in the necessary manner. That
done, she soon closed her alcove again. And she hid it again, just as she'd done some time earlier. With
that now done here, she then went back to her bed. And she moved her other sack under her chair. She
did that here, in fact, so that when she eventually called her siblings into her own bedroom again, they all
wouldn't see it for at least a few seconds, if not even longer than that here. Supposing they'd actually see
it at all, of course, for all the obvious reasons.
She soon took a sip of a glass of water, just after lighting all the lanterns she'd blown out a while
before again, and returning to that chair herself. And then she eventually said here, "Rebecca, Martha, and
Ulysses, you're clear to return here to my bedroom. Enter immediately, without any delay."
Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses did so, without even realizing that Sylvia had changed her look.
As soon as they saw her sitting in their older sister Sylvia's chair, a questioning look appeared in their eyes.
She then shushed them right away with just one touch of her right index finger to her lips, as she essentially
said, with a single look, "Sit down, and remain rather quiet. You can ask me questions. And if I can
answer them, I will."
When they asked her the questions that Serenity had suspected that they would, then, if the current
situation for her and them allowed it at all, Skyhorse soon told them what Queen Serenity wanted her to
tell them all here. And she also did whatever Serenity wanted her to do with them, before she heard the
beeps that Serenity had mentioned in her earlier message to Sylvia. Then she said, "Kids, we have to go
now to that distant place I just told you about. Gather in a circle around me. And please don't get too far
away from me, when you do it. Form that circle by holding hands with each other around me. First,
Rebecca, you take Martha's left hand and Uly's right hand. Next, Martha, you take Uly's left hand and
Rebecca's right hand. Finally, Uly, you take Rebecca's left hand and Martha's right hand."
So Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses all did as she told them all to do. And after they'd done so well
enough to sufficiently suit her here, she then said, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Sailor and Sibling Teleport." As
soon as she said it, all four of them then disappeared from her own Wakefield Castle chambers. Eventually,
they all reappeared at the Kyoto Area Spaceport in Kyoto, Japan, which was also on Earth. Then they
all waited for Darien and Rolando's eventual arrivals there as well, of course. And they waited for at least
ten or so minutes, in fact. During which time, Skyhorse kept her siblings occupied by playing cards with
them, at least. Whether or not she did anything else as well with them in the meantime, as Serenity had now
asked her to do in her most recent message to Sylvia, she still did that here, somehow, at least.
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related story series, of course, once I put even more of it up here. The other chapters of this third story
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story in this series, just the same, readers. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off
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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Sylvia's Chambers In Wakefield Castle
Jerusalem, Israel, Earth
November 23, 986
Meanwhile, while several Princesses often were otherwise occupied with their secret training as
Sailor Scouts on the Moon, back on Earth, particularly in the area of Jerusalem, Israel, Sylvia Lucille
Wakefield was with her younger siblings Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses in her chambers just a few minutes
before 2:30 local time on the morning of November 23, 986. Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses hadn't been
able to sleep well enough in their chambers during the current night. For a sudden thunderstorm that was
now heading to the east had just begun to rage in the Jerusalem area. So they all came to Sylvia's
chambers to be with her, hoping that she might be able to settle them down at least a little bit, if not a lot.
They were all currently sitting on her bed. While she sat on a chair just in front of them all, at the same time,
in fact.
She was talking to them all for at least a little while here, when a rather strong wind suddenly blew
open one of her windows. When it did so, in came a message canister that she'd not actually expected to
receive from anyone else so soon after she'd gotten one not long before from Queen Serenity. Rebecca,
who was also often called "Becky" or "Becca," then said, "I see something just came through your window
here, Sylvia."
"I see that, Rebecca. Please take Martha, Ulysses, and yourself into my bathroom until I say
otherwise. Just in case at least one more thing comes unexpectedly through my window again, I don't want
to take the chance that any of you will get hit by it or them, if I really don't have to do that, Rebecca. I
happen to know that thing that just came through my window is for me. And if I can, I'll explain later how
I know that. No questions right now, from any of you, please. Please do as I say, though."
So, rather reluctantly, Rebecca did as Sylvia had just told her to do with their siblings. And she
took them all into Sylvia's bathroom as she'd been told to do by Sylvia moments before, in fact. As soon
as Rebecca did so, Sylvia then briefly looked out her window, so that she could see if any other things were
heading right for her Wakefield Castle chambers. She saw two other message canisters heading directly
for the exact same window. And they were both heading toward it from different directions as they both
lined themselves up for their runs to her chambers in that castle. Both of those canisters were making
gradual arcs toward her now-open window, as one came in primarily from the northwest, and the other
came in primarily from the east. The one that'd just entered her chambers had come into it mainly from the
north, after having passed over a good portion of the castle mainly from the southwest. That window was
in the northern wall of her chambers. Her chambers were placed near the northeastern corner of the castle,
if not in it, and in an upper level of it. Even though rain was now beginning to enter her chambers, due to
the fact that she'd not yet closed the window in question, she left it open, so that it wouldn't blow open
again for at least a little while. She waited at least a few moments or so more to close that window. For
those canisters still had to enter her chambers, obviously enough. As soon as they were all in it, then, and
she was sufficiently sure that nothing else was heading her way from elsewhere in the area or elsewhere on
Earth, she quickly closed and blocked her window as much as she could do so here. She did that here so
that it hopefully wouldn't blow open again for at least a little while, of course.
Then she picked up all the message canisters from where they'd each landed on her floor here.
And she brought each of them to the nearest table. With that done here, she then lit an unlit lantern with
the help of a torch from a somewhat random sconce somewhere in the nearby hall, blowing out a few other
lanterns in her chambers just before she did so. Then she closed and quite securely bolted her door again
here. For she really didn't want to be disturbed needlessly by anyone else, if it could possibly be avoided
by her at all, in fact. Then she set the lantern in question on that table. With that done as well, she then
began opening each of the message canisters that'd just entered her own Wakefield Castle chambers,
starting with the first one.
The first one was from Queen Serenity. In it, there was a scroll with a short message from Queen
Serenity. That scroll said to Sylvia, "Sylvia, a Moon Kingdom satellite will be about halfway between your
likely location and that of Prince Darien's likely location at about 3:10 am your time on November 23, 986.
You'll need to be in your chambers and in your Sailor Scout state by 3:05 am your time on that same day.
If your siblings ask where Sylvia went, say that she remembered that she had something to do that she'd
forgotten to do earlier. Tell them that you are a friend of Sylvia's. And to prove it, show the painting that
Michelle painted of you in both your states of being, just before you left us a while ago. Tell them that
Sylvia will hopefully be back from wherever she went as soon as she can be back from there, God willing,
of course, while you're in your Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse. Tell them that you'll
need to bring them all somewhere rather distant. And that you'll be bringing them to friends of Sylvia's for
at least a little while. Don't tell them exactly where, at least not yet. Don't say more to them than that,
except to say that their sister Sylvia trusts you and your friends to take care of them while she's away from
Wakefield Castle. When that satellite is almost in the necessary location above Earth, you'll hear three
short beeps from your locket. Within three minutes or so after you hear the last beep, you'll then have to
say the words, 'Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Sailor and Sibling Teleport,' if you want your siblings to accompany
you as you leave the Jerusalem area of Earth again. If you don't, then you must leave the sibling-related
part of that phrase out, of course. You'll all be met by Prince Darien at the Kyoto Area Spaceport by
10:30 am local time there the same day. You're all to wait there until Prince Rolando joins you within the
next two hours after 10:30 am local time, at most. He'll arrive there in the same manner that all four of you
Wakefields did earlier. When he eventually shows up somewhere within about five to ten feet of where
you Wakefields are with Darien, there, you'll then have to say, Sylvia, within five minutes after he does so,
'Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Titanic World Transfer Access, now! Authorization, Junior Sailor Scout Skyhorse
Sigma-628-44-972!' That should allow you and all five of your current companions to show up here on
the Moon, if you say it before 12:30 pm Kyoto time, I think. That authorization code will bring you to the
Moon, and bring you to a certain location on it within no more than a few minutes after you say it. I'll be
in the Crystal Chalice Garden on the Crystal Palace's grounds in Moon City, when you get here to the
Moon. I'll be near the bench where Serena found you talking with Darien and Rolando the day you
became the Sailor Scout Junior Sailor Skyhorse. Prince Daniel will be with me. And after you all get here,
then I'll tell you more later about why I needed to see you very soon. You'll also need to tell your siblings
to follow Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando wherever they may lead them, after you all get here. After
the two of us are then alone again, I'll want to talk to you for at least a little while, Sylvia."
Serenity had said only a few things more, before she'd signed that message to Sylvia. Then Sylvia
rolled up the scroll that Serenity had most recently sent her. She then went to one of her closets. And she
found a large sack there. Then she began taking certain things from shelves and hangers in that closet. And
she placed those things as carefully and as quickly as she could in that sack. By the time that she did so,
the sack was about a third full, at most. She then brought that sack back over to the table on which Queen
Serenity's canister was still sitting. She checked to see if Queen Serenity had sent her anything else. And
Queen Serenity had actually done so, in fact. She'd sent four roses to Sylvia, two of which were pink, one
red, and one white. The white one was for Ulysses, the pink ones for Rebecca and Martha, and the red
one for Sylvia. Princes Darien and Rolando would also be wearing red roses. For they were currently
citizens-by-choice of the Moon Kingdom, just as Sylvia now was in her own life. Unlike all three of her
siblings, of course. The Moon Kingdom satellite that'd bring them first to Kyoto, Japan, on Earth, and then
to Moon City on the Moon, would then lock onto the positions of those roses. And hopefully the presence
of the aforementioned roses would then make it possible somehow for Sylvia, Darien, and Rolando to
travel rather quickly to the Moon with Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses, of course. That was once Sylvia
said the necessary phrase as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, after the six of them were all together again at the
Kyoto Area Spaceport sufficiently well, quite naturally enough, in fact.
Sylvia quickly opened the other two canisters she'd just received from elsewhere on Earth. And
both of them also had messages for her in them. She read them both very quickly. For they were both
rather short, before she put them into her sack too. She put in a few more roses from both canisters,
among other things that were also in those canisters, in her sack. She put other things from both canisters
in her sack as well, until she no longer wanted to do that at all.
Most, if not all, of the things she didn't put in her sack, she then took to a secret underground
cavern by using a secret passageway buried deep inside the rather thick walls of Wakefield Castle that ran
between a hidden alcove in her chambers and that secret underground cavern. She, of course, wasted no
unnecessary time in taking most, if not all, of the things that she didn't put in her sack to that underground
cavern by using a cart near one end of that secret passageway to get to the other. It took her not more than
two minutes to make one round-trip with those things. And not more than ten minutes in all to make all the
necessary trips to that secret underground cavern at least 200 feet below Wakefield Castle, and at least
400 feet to the east of its outermost eastern walls. Which, of course, meant that she'd have had to have
been traveling quite fast to get between that alcove and that cavern so quickly during each trip. How fast
she was going during each of those trips between those locations, she didn't really know at those times, nor
did she really care at all. For she knew that before too much longer, she'd have to get into her Sailor Scout
state of being, for all the obvious reasons, of course. All she really cared about was being ready to leave
the Jerusalem area when she had to leave it, with or without her siblings accompanying her out of it. And
doing so before anyone else found out that she'd vanished from the area too quickly who didn't need to find
it out for at least a while. After making her last trip back to her hidden alcove from the secret underground
cavern, she then quite quickly placed the things hiding the secret passageway between her alcove and that
cavern back where she'd put them when she'd accessed that passageway some time before, if she'd moved
them at all. Then she hid her alcove again by sliding a wall back in front of it again. She did that in the
hopes that nobody else would likely be able to find it before it was too late to keep her from eventually
going to the Moon with her siblings, if they were even able to find it at all.
That done, she left a short note on one of her tables suggesting that she had gone off to visit
someone that was from somewhere in the area of Bethlehem. But she didn't identify that particular person
by name. For she really didn't want anyone to suspect that her note was faked at all, if it could be avoided
at all by her. She just basically said that she was going to visit someone there who she knew needed help
with certain farm animals. And that she was going there on foot. She said that she actually didn't know
if and whenever she'd ever be able to return to Wakefield Castle. And she said that someone in the area
of Bethlehem really needed her help at the current time. She said that she likely had enough provisions to
last her at least long enough to get to the Bethlehem area on foot. She said that she expected to be there
within one week, if not sooner than that, God willing. She said that she couldn't actually be any more
definite than that about her coming journey. Or at least she couldn't be more definite about it at the current
time. Then she signed the note, and weighted it down with at least one paperweight of hers. She did that
here so that if anyone else eventually came into her chambers anytime after she'd left them, they'd see it
easily enough.
That done, she quickly finished filling her sack with the necessary items, if she'd not already done
so, before she tied it off with a long enough rope, of course. She then set that sack on her bed, after
opening another window in the northern wall of her chambers, once she'd seen that the thunderstorm that'd
brought her siblings to see her in them was sufficiently over. That done, she then rather hurriedly made a
rope from a number of her cleanest and darkest blankets here. She soon tied that same rope to a nearby
trellis that was to one side of that window, once she tied yet another sack on the belt of the robe she was
now wearing. Inside that sack, she then placed all three of the canisters she'd most recently received from
Darien, Serenity, and Rolando. She then climbed out that window here. And she swung to the trellis.
After which she then descended to the ground by using that blanket-made rope behind an enormous
rosebush with hundreds, if not thousands, of roses on it. There was a vertical tunnel of sorts between the
top of that trellis and the ground. And she then descended on the rope made with blankets foot by foot,
very carefully indeed. She did this here so that her feet hopefully wouldn't actually step falsely as she kept
track of how far she'd descended on that rope by stepping on the necessary sections of that trellis. All
those sections of the trellis here were also quite securely fastened to the wall of the castle, for all the obvious
reasons, of course. Just as they'd been ever since shortly after the rosebush that she was now being hidden
from view behind had been planted in its current location at least five centuries earlier. She then made it
safely enough down to the ground just about fifteen to twenty minutes before three o'clock local time on
the morning of November 23, 986. Then she soon moved a moderately-sized boulder that couldn't
normally be seen from above until someone actually got within two feet of its top to one side. And she did
that here so that she could then access a rather secret tunnel that was both behind, and below, the rather
enormous rosebush under her very own Wakefield Castle chambers.
After she remembered exactly how to do so, accessing that tunnel took only a few more seconds,
at most. And then she was below ground within another minute. Five to ten seconds more, and she then
reached the bottom of the tunnel, landing on her feet with quite a bit of ease, considering the fact that she
was currently carrying a sack with three canisters in it on her belt. She soon palmed a nearby wall. And
a small opening appeared in it as a torch on the wall near where she'd just palmed it flickered to life. Then
she reached into her sack, and hastily grabbed each of the canisters in it up one at a time, just before she
placed them all in that opening. That done, she then palmed the wall again where she just had. And then
the torch that'd just flickered to life on the wall extinguished itself just as quickly as it'd flickered to life a few
moments or so before. When it did, the opening that she'd just placed the canisters in disappeared seconds
later. That then left her alone in the darkness where she now stood in the tunnel she'd just accessed
moments before again, of course.
She then transformed herself into Junior Sailor Skyhorse as quickly as she could, before she went
to where she'd landed originally in her current tunnel. That done, she then said, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse,
Eagle Wings Power On!" Two large wings of eagles' feathers appeared on the back of her Sailor Scout
uniform, but not on her actual physical back. And four smaller wings appeared on the back of her current
footwear, which was actually a pair of moccasins. Not the exact same ones that she'd ended up with when
she'd first transformed herself into Junior Sailor Skyhorse, as a matter of fact. But ones that were
somewhat similar to them, nevertheless. These moccasins that she was now wearing on her were of
doeskin dyed four different colors by her when she'd made them for herself as Sylvia Lucille Wakefield.
They had no rabbit fur or turtledove feathers on them. But they were made of doeskin that had been dyed
crimson, gold, royal blue, and white, as she'd earlier chosen to dye the various parts of those moccasins.
The toes of the moccasins she was currently wearing had been dyed white on the toes of them. While the
gold had been put on the soles, the crimson on the sides and top of them, and the royal blue on the heels
and the edges of them, as she'd earlier seen fit to dye the doeskin they'd both been made from, of course.
After all six wings soon appeared either on her uniform's back or on the backs of both her moccasins, she
then began rising from the bottom of the tunnel. She did this at least until she was able to reach out for a
ladder that she'd been earlier going down before she'd jumped off it, in order to get to the bottom of the
tunnel and store the canisters just received by her some time before. She did that here so that she could
begin climbing it until she was out of the tunnel again. She gripped that ladder a few seconds later. And
she quickly began ascending it again.
As she did so, she hoped that nothing bad was currently happening anywhere in the Moon
Kingdom, of course. She reached the surface below her chambers again no more than about a minute or
two later. Then she said, once she'd gotten sufficiently above ground again, and had put the boulder back
in its proper place to hide the tunnel it normally hid from people's view, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Eagle
Wings Power Off!" Her wings then disappeared again from the backs of her uniform and her moccasins.
Seconds later, at most, she was quite hastily climbing up the blanket-made rope she'd made earlier. Up
she went it as quickly as she could do so safely and easily enough here. And as soon as she got to the top
of the trellis, she then swung to the window's sill as safely and as quickly as she could swing to it. After
she'd done so easily enough, she then detached the blanket-made rope from the trellis as quickly as she
could. Then she untied the blankets from that very rope. And she soon hid all of them, and the sack she'd
put her three newest canisters in, back in her alcove after accessing it again in the necessary manner. That
done, she soon closed her alcove again. And she hid it again, just as she'd done some time earlier. With
that now done here, she then went back to her bed. And she moved her other sack under her chair. She
did that here, in fact, so that when she eventually called her siblings into her own bedroom again, they all
wouldn't see it for at least a few seconds, if not even longer than that here. Supposing they'd actually see
it at all, of course, for all the obvious reasons.
She soon took a sip of a glass of water, just after lighting all the lanterns she'd blown out a while
before again, and returning to that chair herself. And then she eventually said here, "Rebecca, Martha, and
Ulysses, you're clear to return here to my bedroom. Enter immediately, without any delay."
Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses did so, without even realizing that Sylvia had changed her look.
As soon as they saw her sitting in their older sister Sylvia's chair, a questioning look appeared in their eyes.
She then shushed them right away with just one touch of her right index finger to her lips, as she essentially
said, with a single look, "Sit down, and remain rather quiet. You can ask me questions. And if I can
answer them, I will."
When they asked her the questions that Serenity had suspected that they would, then, if the current
situation for her and them allowed it at all, Skyhorse soon told them what Queen Serenity wanted her to
tell them all here. And she also did whatever Serenity wanted her to do with them, before she heard the
beeps that Serenity had mentioned in her earlier message to Sylvia. Then she said, "Kids, we have to go
now to that distant place I just told you about. Gather in a circle around me. And please don't get too far
away from me, when you do it. Form that circle by holding hands with each other around me. First,
Rebecca, you take Martha's left hand and Uly's right hand. Next, Martha, you take Uly's left hand and
Rebecca's right hand. Finally, Uly, you take Rebecca's left hand and Martha's right hand."
So Rebecca, Martha, and Ulysses all did as she told them all to do. And after they'd done so well
enough to sufficiently suit her here, she then said, "Junior Sailor Skyhorse, Sailor and Sibling Teleport." As
soon as she said it, all four of them then disappeared from her own Wakefield Castle chambers. Eventually,
they all reappeared at the Kyoto Area Spaceport in Kyoto, Japan, which was also on Earth. Then they
all waited for Darien and Rolando's eventual arrivals there as well, of course. And they waited for at least
ten or so minutes, in fact. During which time, Skyhorse kept her siblings occupied by playing cards with
them, at least. Whether or not she did anything else as well with them in the meantime, as Serenity had now
asked her to do in her most recent message to Sylvia, she still did that here, somehow, at least.
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I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the
first ten chapters of this third story, if you've actually gotten this far. And that you'll all continue to read its
related story series, of course, once I put even more of it up here. The other chapters of this third story
in the series will be up shortly, if at all possible, readers, for your information. I really don't know yet just
how long it'll still take me to get each story in this series up fully here. But it might take a while for each
story in this series, just the same, readers. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off
here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course, readers! Over and out!