24. - - Dragonfly
She was like a dragonfly to him - she represented light and happiness, pure joy of living.
She entered his dreams quietly and slowly just like the dragonfly glides softly above the surface of water, rarely ever touching it. And even if she did touch it just for the briefest of moments the trace would stay long afterwards, etched in time and space. With her crystal laughter and with eyes of the sky she is just like the dragonfly - here, at the reach of his hand but completely uncatchable.
Still, Mamoru was a patient man. Usagi is still young now, everything is so new to her - new experiences, new adventures, new emotions and findings - all of that awakes a myriad of emotions in her and she turns and turns, skips over them and round them. All those lines of life in making, she lives through them with a childlike curiosity, sometimes taking a few steps back when she understands it's not so easy.
Mamoru watches her closely, hidden in the shadows of tomorrow and waiting for the day when she will bloom into a beautiful young lady, like the dragonfly transforms into something better at the ending of the turning cycle. Usagi will become a person who lived a lot in her youth and then took it all in her hands and molded it into wonderful maturity and control.
He stays behind the screens of her days, watching, because there is nothing more magnificent then seeing the girl you love growing up before your very own eyes.