Amaterasu threw her robe on, as she prepared to set up viewing contact. Usually she wouldn't bother with the robe. It was only viewing, after all, but it was a taboo on other planets to allow anyone to view one not dressed appropriately.
"I should have just viewed her dressed in the same gown I wore to the ball."she said to herself, being enormously relieved to be alone.
She thought the rooms in the castle were too small. In her mansion each room was at least five times as large, along with all the windows, and it had much more furniture in each room as well.
"I'm so glad that's over!"said Mars.
She pointed her finger at Jadeite.
"It's obvious that you just never learn, do you?"she said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Never learn?"Jadeite asked nervously.
He didn't know what Mars was talking about, but her tone of voice was making him nervous. He cowered, watching as her eyes flashed.
"Uh, I really have no idea what you're talking about…"he said.
"You have no idea?!"she asked in a low voice. "Every year!"
Hearing her last words, he suddenly knew what she was talking about. He knew just how jealous Mars could be. And in how much danger he was whenever she thought he'd been paying any attention to any woman other than herself.
"But I didn't do anything this year! I didn't even ask anyone to dance. Besides you!"he told her desperately.
"Don't think I didn't notice just how impressed you were when you looked at that disgusting Sirian!"
Jadeite was absolutely puzzled. Sirian, Sirian. The problem with these balls was that there so many people, it became hard to remember who was who.
"Um, the one with one bracelet and watch on each wrist?"he asked.
He remembered that anyone from a binary star system usually wore two of everything. Necklaces, bracelets, watches, rings, earrings, any piece of jewelry. Mars's eyes flashed, and he thought he'd be safer hiding under the bed, or in the closet, even. Fortunately, to his good fortune, Mars seemed to have forgotten her anger momentarily.
I wish to set up viewing contact, she heard a voice telling her, in perfect Martian.
As soon as Mars accepted, a perfect image of Amaterasu sat before her. So life like, one would have thought that they were sitting in the same room. The only thing that gave it away as an image was the fact the background behind Amaterasu, which was in soft pastels of purple and gold, instead of red, dark purple and black behind Mars.
Jadeite made a mental note to thanks the Solarian for having saved him from Mars's anger, but then decided that probably wouldn't be such a good idea. If Mars caught him, he'd probably be worse off. These balls certainly weren't the better part of the trip. With so many women around, Mars always got jealous.
Mars sat in a chair in front of the fireplace.
"We haven't viewed for a long time."she told Amaterasu.
Amaterasu shrugged.
"There were two new people at the ball this evening."Amaterasu said. "They spoke to me."
Mars frowned, then smiled.
"Oh, you must be talking about Princess Saturn and Small Lady."she said. "Yes, they were very excited about coming. It is the first year. Small Lady is the daughter of King Endymion and Queen Serenity, and Saturn is the planetary senshi for the planet Saturn."
"Saturn."Amaterasu said, with a look of concentration on her face. "Saturn…I guess that would explain it?"she asked.
Mars's smile vanished, and a look of confusion replaced it.
"Explain what?"she asked, looking completely confused.
"That when the two girls approach, even though I saw with my eyes that there two, my mind told me there were four."Amaterasu told her.
Mars looked more confused than ever.
"Four?"she asked, bewildered. "What are you talking about?"
Even Jadeite listened intendly.
"I sensed four. Four…minds."she told her.
"But how? I thought that only Small Lady and Saturn were talking to you."Jadeite said.
"They were talking to me, but there were two others. There were two bodies, but four minds present."
"How?"
Amaterasu looked bewildered.
"I thought you would know! You are the ones who brought them here. And you've lived with them. Besides, they felt…malevolent. Almost…"she did not know any other way to describe it. "Perhaps…Chaos?"she said timidly.
"That's impossible!"exclaimed Jadeite.
Amaterasu nodded.
"Thank you! It is, isn't it? That's why I'm worried! It really can't be? Can it?"she said, anxiously.
Mars was speechless.
"But, but you're a Solarian."said Jadeite. "You must be mistaken! After all, how many people do you really see? How many minds do you really have a chance to study? You must be mistaken."Jadeite said calmly.
"Why and how could Chaos ever have…"Mars began.
"I don't know! But I could study them more carefully."Amaterasu said.
"It's possible that you are mistaken. Like Jadeite said, you really don't know much about people. Even if you are telepathic."
Amaterasu nodded.
"I do hope so."
"I think we need to call an emergency meeting."Mars said, getting up.
"But everyone should probably be asleep at this hour! And anyway, we agreed that the Solarian is probably mistaken, anyway."Jadeite said.
It wouldn't be a good idea to have Kunzite hear about this. Mars frowned.
"Perhaps you're right."she admitted.
"I must study both of them more carefully."Amaterasu said. "Done viewing."she said, and the image disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.
"It's not possible."said Mars. "It really isn't."
"I think I have a headache, Diana."Small Lady told her cat.
"Do you want me to get someone to help, Small Lady?"Diana asked.
"No, I don't think so."Smally Lady replied. "It's all right."
"It must be from the ball. After all, there were so many people, and it did last quite a while. You're not used to that, Small Lady."
"You're probably right, Diana. It'll probably go away as soon as I get some sleep."she said. "Good night, Diana."
"Good night, Small Lady."