The next morning, Amaterasu decided to eat breakfast with Small Lady and Saturn. It's just as if we were viewing, she told herself. She hated to dine in the personal presence of others, so she usually dined alone. That wasn't uncommon here. Some people felt uncomfortable dining in such an elegant setting, others didn't like to mingle with foreigners, so everyone usually dined in their own quarters. She broke her custom, and dined with them, although at the opposite end of the table, and tried not to notice that they were in the same room, by ignoring the backgrounds. After all, when one viewed someone, the only difference was the background. She was at a complete loss as to what to say to them. They were, after all, children, and she didn't know anything about children. There were few whose business it was to know, and who raised the children, making sure that only the best graduated, and were sent to estates of their own. The others…Amaterasu wasn't sure what happened to the others. She didn't even know if there were any others. There were many when she was a child, but that had been along time ago. Instead, she tried to study their minds, trying not to think about them as children, but as…small adults?
"Um…"she started to say. Say the same as if you were viewing, she told herself again. "Good morning."she said to them.
"Why did you want to eat with us?"Small Lady asked her.
"You spoke to me last night. I…thought that it would be…proper."Amaterasu replied.
This was going to be very difficult indeed, as she was so tense herself. She told herself to relax.
"We're very happy that you did."Saturn told her.
Amaterasu noticed that both girls seemed tired, and she confirmed it by seeing that they had not slept very well.
"I see you haven't slept very well. Bad dreams…"she nodded.
"How did you know?"they both asked at the same time, then turned to face each other, as she heard the other say the same thing.
Amaterasu looked surprised. Fortunately, they didn't seem to think much of it, they seemed more interested in the fact that both of them had had bad dreams.
"You had them, too?"Small Lady asked Saturn.
Saturn nodded.
"Hopefully they weren't as dreadful as the one's Small Lady had."Diana said, sounding worried.
Amaterasu turned toward Diana.
"You saw the dreams Small Lady had?"she asked Diana.
"It was horrible."Diana told her. "Small Lady didn't seem herself. She spoke in another voice, I think. It sounded like someone else's voice."
"Someone else…"Amaterasu said, sounding interested.
As Diana was a cat, Amaterasu had no problem getting close to her. After all, she had cats on her estate, and she saw several in the wilderness, among the trees, lakes, mountains, and plains on her estate.
"What did she say?"Amaterasu asked her.
"It was very…almost malevolent. She…"
"Did she say anything…"Amaterasu hesitated. "about…Queen Serenity? The Crystals, anything?"she asked.
Diana looked up.
"Um, it was revenge mostly."Diana answered.
"Revenge."Amaterasu nodded. "Do you wish for revenge, Small Lady?"she asked Small Lady.
Small Lady looked shocked, and shook her head.
"Revenge? On who? Why?"she asked.
"Why don't you tell me more about these dreams?"Amaterasu insisted.
"I don't remember my dreams."
Amaterasu frowned.
"But you must remember something! Anything about them!"
She knew she always did. But, of course, it was probably due to the fact that she was Solarian, and they weren't.
"There must be something to remember about them!"she insisted.
"I do!"Saturn remembered, suddenly. "There were crystals. A lot. And…"she trailed off. "It was like, very dark, and there weren't any lights, or sounds…but, I don't really remember anything else."
Amaterasu looked upset.
"That's it?"she asked.
"That's it."Saturn confirmed, nodding.
Amaterasu sighed. Well, it hadn't been hard to dine with them, but certainly not really productive.
"Why don't you tell me about your dream again?"she said to Saturn.
"But I just told you."Saturn told her.
"I would like you to repeat it. That way, I could remember it better."she said.
"All right,"she said, and repeated what she remembered about her dream.
As soon as she began to repeat, Amaterasu turned and dived into her mind. It was easier, since Saturn was trying to remember herself, as well. She could see the same images that Saturn was recalling. The darkness, the silence. Noticing the crystals, she thought, that looks like a heart crystal!
"How would you even have the slightest idea what a heart crystal looks like!"Amateras demanded from her.
Small Lady and Saturn looked confused.
"A heart crystal?"asked Saturn.
"Never mind!"Amaterasu said.
They both thought she looked extremely worried.
"What's wrong?"Diana asked.
Amaterasu shook herself.
"I'm sorry."she apologized. "I…was distracted. Um, I have to leave."she said, and stood suddenly. "I have to leave, I'm very sorry."
She walked out of the room.
"It seemed to me that something you said distressed her."Diana told Saturn.
Small Lady turned to Diana.
"What could that be?"she asked.
"I don't know, but I think we have to think about what you're going to wear to the ceremony today. And then, I think we're going to go back to Crystal Tokyo in a couple of days."
"Why do we have to leave so soon!"Small Lady whined.
"I think Mama and Daddy once told me it was because since everyone was here, there was no one to keep an eye on things back on Earth, and that anyway, if we stayed longer, we'd be here alone. Everyone else is anxious to get back to their own star systems as well, for the same reason."Diana told them.
"Can't we just send Kunzite back?"Small Lady suggested.
"I don't know. I could suggest it to the King and Queen, though."Diana said seriously
Saturn giggled.
"I don't think they would."she said.