Chapter Seven
The following day, during her lunch period, Sylvia eventually encountered Rolando and Kiena, among others, on the way to the school's main cafeteria. The three of them greeted each other briefly, and soon got to talking to each other about the events of the previous afternoon at the college where Skyhorse's latest battle had taken place.
They did so, after seeing that their usual tables elsewhere in the cafeteria had been taken up sufficiently already. So they found a still-empty table elsewhere in the cafeteria, and sat down at it. Not more than a few moments after doing so, Sylvia asked Rolando, "Who do you think this new Scout is, Mr. Volois?"
"I really have no idea at the current time. I wonder if she'll prove a strong ally to Sailor Skyhorse in the future or not. In fact, Miss Wakefield, I even wonder where she came from, and why she's here now as well, for that matter."
Kiena Jacano now knew she was Sailor Renaissance, due to Isaiah's earlier initiation of her as a Scout. But she still didn't yet know that Sylvia was Sailor Skyhorse, or that Rolando was the Pilgrim. In time, she'd come to know both those things. But at least as of the current time, she didn't know they were secretly either Sailor Skyhorse or the Pilgrim, for the obvious reasons.
Rolando Volois didn't know he was also secretly the Pilgrim. Neither did he know that Sylvia was secretly Sailor Skyhorse nor did he know that Kiena was now Sailor Renaissance. In time, he'd learn those things, but didn't actually know them currently in his life.
As for Sylvia Wakefield, she currently didn't know the civilian identities of either Pilgrim or Sailor Renaissance at all in her life. But, if at all possible, she'd eventually learn them in it, just the same. Just not for a while, most likely.
"I think you might be right, Mr. Volois," said Kiena. "Though just how right you might be, I just don't really know yet, if I ever will."
They talked quite a bit with each other during lunch, if and whenever possible, in fact. Eventually, they finished their lunches, and had to go to their next classes, when the need arose for them all. They parted from each other, not yet knowing when they might meet up again in their lives. All three of them just had a feeling now, though, that they'd do that at least every so often in the future of their respective lives.
Several hours later, after school ended, Sylvia and Kiena were both patronizing a local restaurant at the same time. In fact, it was the same restaurant that Sylvia had earlier gone to after her second Scout battle. It was a pizza place, primarily, though it occasionally might serve assorted other foods. Also, an arcade of sorts was attached to it behind the main part of the restaurant, or above it, as the case might be here.
They were sitting at separate tables alone, still in their respective DBJHS school uniforms. Eventually, as Sylvia was having some pizza and grape juice at her table, Kiena passed by. She passed by on the way toward a trash can so that she could throw away the things that she'd have to throw away here. Kiena didn't see Sylvia sitting at her table until she was within four or five feet of it, but when she did, she said, "This is a real surprise, Sylvia."
Sylvia soon recognized Kiena's voice, and looked up. Kiena had just stopped walking toward that trash can, once she'd seen Sylvia well enough here, in fact. Sylvia said, "You can say that again. Kiena, I believe your name was."
"Yes, we met each other at the Athletic Club earlier, Sylvia."
"What day was that, if you can remember well enough, Kiena?"
"Saturday, September 15, 1990, Sylvia."
"So about a week ago?"
"That's right. Hold on a minute, and I'll join you here, if that's all right with you, Sylvia."
"Fine with me. I'll still be here for at least a little while longer, Kiena. Do what you have to do, and then join me, if you so choose." Kiena then disposed of the necessary items in the trash, and kept the things that she had to keep at the present time. A few moments after doing that, she then joined Sylvia at her table, sitting down directly across from her at it.
After she did so, Sylvia soon asked, "Have you always been a resident of this area?"
"Generally, yes. As far as I know, my family's people may have lived their lives here for generations. In terms of being in the local area, that is. I don't know if they've been here for at least a century, for sure, but I think they have. And I think we may even have had roots here at least since the time of the Renaissance, for that matter. Our known family history prior to 1900 or so is at least a little sketchy in places. We may have relatives located all over the world, as far as we can tell at the present time. Though we're not really sure about that right now, if we ever will be, Sylvia."
"Well, my family's people have certainly lived here for at least a millennium, as far as we currently know in our lives. Perhaps even since before the time of Christ, or even the time of Judah's King Hezekiah, for that matter. There are even rumors that our family goes all the way back to the time of Jacob, through his son Judah. Though we can't currently prove those rumors beyond a shadow of a doubt yet, if we'll ever be able to."
"If those rumors can be proven, then your family would be of the Tribe of Judah?"
"I believe so, Kiena. But as far as we know, we're Gentiles. Though we could be wrong about that, of course." Sylvia said these things after finishing her last piece of her available pizza that she wanted to have at the present time. Two other medium-sized pizzas were also on the table next to her and Kiena. But those pizzas weren't going to be consumed in the restaurant by anyone. For Sylvia had purchased them for the rest of her family, in fact.
The two of them talked for a while with each other, before Sylvia suddenly got the urge to hand Kiena a watch which could possibly double as a communicator. When Kiena asked why, Sylvia said, "I have a rather strange feeling for some reason that you'll actually need this quite often in the future, Kiena. Please take it, just in case that's true."
"Sylvia, I already have a watch."
"I, somehow, have a feeling you might come to need to use this watch I'm now handing you quite often in the future. I really don't know why, but I just have it, just the same. So, Kiena, please take this watch, and wear it whenever possible." She handed Kiena a watch she'd recently purchased, and Kiena put it on her left wrist, after a bit more urging from Sylvia here.
Some time later, then, the two of them parted for at least a little while, if not a long while. It was almost 5:30 pm when they both did so. Kiena left the restaurant's premises at 5:30 pm. Sylvia stayed on them for about another fifteen or so minutes. When Sylvia was ready to leave them, she left them in very short order, in a rather calm and deliberate manner.
Sylvia returned home for a while, in order to drop off the other two pizzas she'd bought for the rest of her family. That done, while in her room, she changed into her usual riding attire, and picked out some casual enough clothes for her to wear after she got done riding again. After she'd done that well enough to suit her here, she put them in her backpack, as usual. That done, she left her room again in the usual manner.
Five minutes later, she was heading off toward Sweet Musicalisti, as had often been the case for her for the past few weeks, more or less. She eventually arrived there by 6:30 pm local time. Not very long after that, she and Serenade were off the stable complex's grounds again, and riding all over the area, just as soon as they could do so well enough there.
Sylvia and Serenade patrolled periodically in the area. Both while she was still Sylvia, and while she was Skyhorse. After about two hours or so of this, they eventually made their way to the cavern they'd unexpectedly discovered earlier. They arrived at the cavern around 9 or so local time. They spent most, if not all, of the next hour or so there, doing whatever came to mind for them both while there. While there, Skyhorse powered down temporarily, at least, and became just Sylvia again.
For a while, then, Sylvia and Serenade did assorted things in and around the cavern that'd hopefully help the Sailor Scouts who'd ever use this as a base of operations out quite a bit in the future. Mostly Sylvia, for the obvious reasons, of course. She started work on outfitting the cavern as any or all of the applicable Scouts might need it outfitted in the future, if she hadn't already begun doing so by then. Often with Serenade's input as she did so, in fact.
Among the things that she set up were future sleeping areas for the Scouts, whenever they might need to use them. Before she and Serenade had found the cavern, it and many, if not most or all, of the nearby nooks and tunnels were quite empty of anything at all. Except for torches, for example, anyway. She outfitted some nearby nooks to the cavern with the appropriate items related to sleeping areas, and others with assorted supplies she'd recently purchased for future Scout use whenever necessary. Still other nooks, she eventually outfitted with certain equipment, especially of a computer-related nature, as well. Several nearby nooks, however, still remained empty, as needed, just in case their areas might need to have any number of other things in them periodically, in actual reality.
She set aside a moderately-large nook aside, for example, for vehicle storage. Another, she set aside for animal lodgings, as she then saw fit to set it aside at the current time. Eventually, she felt that she'd done all that she could do at that time in the cavern and the nearby nooks to it. So she soon said, "Serenade, I believe that we've done all that we can do here currently. I think we'd best get you back to the stable complex as soon as possible."
"Agreed. Sylvia, have you found a way yet for me to hopefully be able to contact you whenever necessary in the future?"
"Not yet. But when I do, I'll certainly let you know, if I can."
They eventually left the area of the cavern completely behind again, and set off for Serenade's Sweet Musicalisti lodgings. For a while, whenever she could then do so, Sylvia patrolled as Skyhorse on the way back there. They arrived back at those grounds by 11:30 pm local time. When they rode up together, with Sylvia back in her civilian state again, for the obvious reasons, Mr. Sherman was sitting on a hay bale talking to his wife, who was now grooming Princess Caralina.
Sylvia soon said, "Hello again, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman. It's good to see you both again."
Danielle stuck her head out of Princess Caralina's stall, and soon said, "Likewise, Miss Wakefield. It's always a pleasure to see you around here, it seems."
"What are you doing, Mrs. Sherman?"
"I'm grooming a horse here. Would you like to see her?"
"If that's all right with you, sure."
So Danielle had Sylvia come to Princess Caralina's stall, and then enter it, just as soon as she wanted to do that. Sylvia entered Princess Caralina's stall, and saw a roughly three-year-old or so horse that was about 14 or so hands high at the shoulder. Princess Caralina was a mostly reddish-brown horse with many mostly small silver and black markings on her hindquarters and legs in several places. She also had mostly white stockings on all four of her legs, wherever appropriate for her then. On her head, there were several other similar markings to the ones on her hindquarters and legs, especially between her big normally brown-looking eyes. Her nose was mostly reddish-brown, for that matter, as were her chin and neck. A narrow set of three black or silver rings was present around her neck just in back of where her mostly black mane ended for her. Two of the rings were black, and one of the rings was silver. And they were all naturally made, for that matter.
Sylvia examined Princess Caralina for a considerable length of time, before saying, "If you ever get to breed her, I think that you should only breed her with Moonlight Serenade, for some reason I don't yet understand, Mrs. Sherman. At least in the usual manner, if not in all manners, that is, in fact."
"And what about Moonlight Serenade?" asked Mr. Sherman.
"He should be paired up only with her, I think. At least in terms of when it ever comes to the usual manner, as well, perhaps, Mr. Sherman."
Sylvia talked with Danielle and Jonah for at least a little while longer, until she realized it was now almost 12:15 on Saturday morning in the local area. As she did that, she also attended to Serenade's needs, if she'd not already done so before that time. By 12:30, then, Serenade was taken care of well enough by her, if he'd not already been by sometime around 12:15 in the morning, in fact.
After he was set for the rest of the night, she soon left for another part of the stable complex. She did this for the obvious reasons, of course. Not long after doing so, she returned to where Danielle and Jonah were still attending to things as they then saw fit here. She wished them well, and good rests for them both between the current time and the next time she might see either or both of them again. They did the same, in like manner.
After that happened, she soon left the stable complex's grounds again. She returned home to Wakefield Castle by 1:15 in the morning, and went to her room not very long after that. Of course, she soon retired to her bed again, for the obvious reasons. By 1:30, then, she was quite soundly asleep again in her bed, lost in any number of dreams there, in very short order.
Later that day, Kiena and Sylvia encountered each other again in the same mall that Skyhorse, Pilgrim, and Serenade had defended a week earlier. It was about 11 in the morning when they did so. Kiena was shopping for some books at two or three bookstores in that mall, and Sylvia was heading back to the art supplies store she'd earlier visited in it. This time, Sylvia was in search of more paint and canvas so she could do more paintings in her room as often as time permitted her to do so.
They met up with each other after Kiena had exited one of the aforementioned bookstores there. And when they did, Kiena unintentionally, and unknowingly, dropped her power locket from her right hand by accident. She'd had it off her necklace for a while, and had been holding it in her hand briefly. As soon as Sylvia saw her accidentally drop it, she set her own things down briefly, and grabbed it up before it could be stepped on or kicked somewhere it didn't need to be by anyone. She managed to do that well enough before half a dozen people of assorted sizes and both genders would have crowded in on them both. Sylvia held it protectively in one of her hands, not letting anyone else get a glimpse of it or knock it loose from her grip. At least not until she and Kiena were both sufficiently passed by many other people in the mall, anyway.
After that became the case well enough to suit Sylvia sufficiently well here, she soon secretly studied the locket, and recognized it as Sailor Renaissance's power locket. Moments later, when it was sufficiently safe for her to do so here, she said, "Kiena, I seem to have saved your locket from damage or destruction here. You might want to be more careful how you handle your locket in the future. You might very well need it whenever you have to transform into your Scout state as Sailor Renaissance."
"How do you know about that?"
"We met on the soccer field during your first Scout battle, Kiena."
"Are you Skyhorse?" They went to the art supplies store Sylvia had just been heading toward when she and Kiena had unexpectedly encountered each other.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am." Sylvia answered this in a very quiet voice, of course, for the obvious reasons. She also handed Kiena back her locket, and saw Kiena hide it better in her things, but not where she might accidentally drop it again like she just had done.
"I see. So I was actually helping you in the battle?"
"Yes, you were, though you didn't know that yet."
"Okay. This is quite big, no doubt." They both soon began looking for things that Sylvia then needed or desired for herself at the current time.
"You've got that right, Kiena. Do you want to go somewhere to talk about the situation, then, in very short order?"
"Do you have a particular place in mind?"
"As a matter of fact, I do. Bring Isaiah, if you can, the next time you see him. I haven't seen him since our first battle together, it seems." Sylvia checked a few pieces of canvas, in order to hopefully see how good they actually were, as she said these things as quietly as she could here.
"I haven't seen him since yesterday, I believe."
"What time yesterday?"
"Just before I left for school yesterday, if I remember well enough here."
"Where did you last see him?"
"In a tree by my house. He flew off to somewhere before I could talk to him again then."
"Did you see him for a long enough time to talk to him after the battle?" Sylvia chose a few of those pieces of canvas for possible purchase here, as she asked Kiena this.
"No, he didn't come close enough to me so that I could do that well enough."
"Where do you think he is now?"
"Hopefully not anywhere where he might be attacked again like he was earlier when you defended him."
"Agreed." They eventually found all the things that Sylvia thought she might need or desire. And Sylvia double-checked all those things for quality and price, in very short order, if at all possible, before deciding to buy them all. Sylvia then brought all those things to the necessary place in the art supplies store so that the cashier could ring them up as part of a sales ticket. That done, the cashier rang up all the required items for that ticket. Sylvia soon opened her purse and paid the necessary amount of money for those items. The cashier and others then bagged up those items as needed here. Sylvia and Kiena soon left the store in question, and proceeded with their respective shopping plans elsewhere in the mall as the need or desire arose for them both.
Some length of time later, it was about 1 pm local time on Saturday, September 22, 1990. They were then just inside the part of the mall nearest where Skyhorse, Pilgrim, and Serenade had defended the mall against the terrorists who'd sought to attack it with a bus. Kiena and Sylvia soon went through the nearest exit point for that mall, and walked outside it for a while, until they came where their vehicles were parked elsewhere near the mall.
First they came to where the Jacanos' station wagon was in the mall's parking lot, so that Kiena could get behind its wheel again. Kiena got behind the wheel, as Sylvia stayed near her briefly. Kiena asked, "Where is this place you spoke of?"
"Set your locket to detect Scout-related signals, if you can, Kiena." Sylvia showed her how to do so by demonstrating with her own locket, turning it on in the necessary manner while she did so. She'd stumbled on how to do that while she'd been patrolling the previous evening and night, rather unexpectedly. She'd done that before getting to the cavern with Serenade, in fact. Sylvia had been Skyhorse when she did that, not yet fully realizing that she'd actually done so then. She only fully realized that she'd done so after leaving Serenade again at Sweet Musicalisti, for that matter.
Kiena did so, just as Sylvia told her how to do that. After it was then set properly so that it'd do so well enough, Sylvia told her that here. Kiena asked, "Now what do I do, seeing as my locket can now detect such signals often enough, if and whenever possible?"
"Follow the signals from my locket. I'll lead you there as quickly as I can as well as I can, Kiena. Also, do you have another vehicle that you might be able to use to get to where I'll be going, by any chance?"
"I believe so. Should I change to that vehicle, once I get back to my family's residence, then, Sylvia?"
"I'd strongly advise that you do so, in actual reality."
"Very well. I'll do just that, then, if at all possible."
"Keep your locket active, just in case you might need to transform rather suddenly somewhere, Kiena."
"Will do." Minutes later, then, Kiena left the necessary parking lot near the mall. Sylvia soon went to her van as well, and returned to Wakefield Castle for a while.
When Sylvia eventually arrived in her family's kitchen area again, her mother asked, "What are your plans for the rest of the day, if I may ask you this here, Sylvia?"
"I'm perhaps going to go look for several people or things to paint in several of my current paintings, Mother. That's among any other things I may or may not also do today or tonight, just for your information."
"I see. And how soon might you have enough paintings ready for another show, by any chance at all?"
"I don't really know right now. Things have picked up quite considerably since school started again for me, Mother. It may be a while, or it could be soon. It depends on how much time that I can spend on them, of course."
"You've apparently been riding quite a bit of late, it seems. I've had to wash your usual riding attire much more than usual of late." Sylvia began helping her mother with some dishes and things she was then working on in the Wakefields' kitchen.
"Well, it seems that I've found a horse that I really like riding a lot of late, Mother. He's quite good-looking, in fact." She spent several minutes telling her mother about Moonlight Serenade as much as she could, and wanted to, tell her about him.
By the time she was done doing so well enough to suit herself sufficiently here, her mother said, "I see. Well, it's too bad we can't exactly lodge him here, then, Sylvia. Or any other horse, for that matter. If he's as good a horse as you seem to think he is, of course."
"Oh, he is, Mother. He most certainly is. You can be absolutely sure of that," said Sylvia, as she suddenly snatched five cookies from a plate near the Wakefields' refrigerator. Three of those cookies had raisins and miniature marshmallows in them, in fact. And the other two she grabbed here were chocolate chip ones. Her mother frowned a bit at her as she snatched them, but let her keep those cookies, just the same.
"I hope you're not going to ruin your supper with those cookies, Sylvia."
"Don't worry about that, Mother. I'll not let them do that. I might be out late tonight, however. Just so you know ahead of time well enough, I don't exactly know just how late, in actual reality. But I might be back rather late tonight, just the same. Especially if I'm riding Moonlight Serenade again, just so you know."
"What do the Shermans think of you riding him so often? Do they mind you doing so at all, by any chance?"
"They don't mind. In fact, I saved him from some mistreatment by a groom some time ago. The Shermans fired that groom, and he was taken away to jail some time ago. I've been helping them out with Serenade whenever possible ever since. Especially after I've ridden him at various times of late."
"I see. Is he for sale currently, by any chance?"
"No, he's not. If he ever were, I suspect that I'd have the first chance to buy him, before he was put on the open market."
"Because of what you've done to help the Shermans out with him, perhaps?"
"Yes, Mother. Someday, I have a feeling that I might just get that chance to do so. I may not have the money to do that at his likely monetary value. At least not right now, anyway. But I still believe someday, I will, if I don't yet have enough money to do that well enough."
"How much is his current monetary value, as far as you know?"
"Perhaps $100,000, more or less."
"So he's not cheap, it seems?"
"That's right. But if things go well enough for us in the meantime, I think I'll eventually have enough money to buy him outright. Whether it's from work, my assorted shows, or some other means, I think I'll have that much money when the need eventually arises for me to have it at a certain time, Mother. God willing, of course."
For a little while longer, then, Sylvia helped her mother out more in the kitchen. At least until her mother released her to do whatever she then wanted or needed to do, of course. Sylvia went to her room again for a short period of time, before exiting and locking it again as needed. On the way out the front door, she made sure she had everything with her that she might need to have while away from Wakefield Castle, no matter what it was. This was for all the obvious reasons, quite naturally enough.
Sylvia soon drove off in her van again from Wakefield Castle's grounds. Not too long after doing that, she began heading toward the required cavern in the local area. But only after first making at least a few detours to throw off any possible pursuers who might just have decided to try to tail her anywhere in the local area, in fact. Especially ones who might have possibly been affiliated with the Arab terrorists that she, Serenade, and the Pilgrim had earlier fought with, while she'd been Skyhorse, for that matter.
She only turned completely toward the cavern after she was as sure as possible that nobody would be able to track her as she did so. Or as she went there, for that matter. By the time that she got there, she'd transformed into her Scout state even while still driving. She did that by saying her transformation phrase with both hands on the van's steering wheel, in fact.
Skyhorse arrived in the cavern around 3:30 pm or so. When she got there, she soon saw that Kiena was inbound, having located Skyhorse through her locket, as expected by her. Kiena arrived in the cavern in the necessary manner by 4 pm local time, after having first transformed herself into her Scout state as Sailor Renaissance. And she soon brought her vehicle to a certain nook in the area, once Skyhorse told her where to take it in the area.
Kiena had transformed into her Sailor state about half a mile or so away from the cavern's area, in the same manner that Sylvia had done so earlier. After she got close enough to the cavern, Skyhorse then revealed the necessary entrance/exit for the Scouts' future base of operations for whenever they could get out of Jerusalem's main parts well enough. A little while later, then, the entrance/exit was again cloaked as necessary, after Renaissance was deep enough into the cavern's immediate area to allow that to be the case here.
After Renaissance pulled her vehicle to a stop in the nook Sylvia had earlier set aside for vehicle storage, Skyhorse came to one side of it. Moments later, then, Renaissance stepped out of a custom-designed vehicle that one of her great-grandfathers had originally built over time from the bottom up. It was somewhat unique, after at least forty or fifty years of mostly active service to her family and to herself, in fact. It even had technology from still-unknown sources as part of it, which seemed to border on being rather futuristic in some places.
The engines were somewhat futuristic-looking, while the interior of the car looked quite reminiscent of American-made cars of the 1950's or 1960's, wherever possible. The exterior of the car generally looked even older, like it was perhaps from the 1930's or 1940's. The wheels were of good size, and so were their wells. Her maternal grandfather had also periodically worked on the car, in the past, and so had her mother, whenever possible. Now she was the main person taking care of that very same vehicle. And she fully expected that she'd always be until it was also time for her to turn that job over to someone else in her life, if and whenever possible.
When Renaissance stepped out of her car, she was wearing driving goggles, reminiscent of ones that long-ago racecar drivers used to wear during their races. Skyhorse asked here why she was doing that, Renaissance said, "I normally wear them whenever I take this car out for a spin to various places. It's my way of connecting to the past, you might say, Skyhorse."
Minutes later, then, they went to the main area of the cavern. Skyhorse showed her around it, and around various nooks near it. The whole tour of the developing Scout base took about an hour or two, at least, for them both, while Skyhorse was showing Renaissance around it as she then needed to here.
By the time that they were done with the tour, Renaissance said, "This place has definite potential to be an excellent base of operations for us whenever we're not in the city, Sky."
"Serenade said much the same thing earlier when we first explored it at considerable length, in fact, Ren." Skyhorse told her just what she and Serenade had said to and done with each other when they'd first come to the cavern and the nearby area, not too much later.
After Sky did so well enough to suit her sufficiently here, Ren said, "Interesting. He may indeed be quite right here about such things." They conversed for quite a bit more time with each other about things related to them both as civilians and as Scouts. And Sky told Ren all that she currently could about the Scouts and the related history for them.
"So just how long do you think this fight is going to continue for us into the future?"
"Well, we're going to have to find the Moon Princess, whoever she might happen to be here, Ren. I don't know who she is just yet, but she'll still need to be found, if at all possible. And found before it's too late to stop our enemies from doing what they might wish to do in this Universe of ours, of course."
"Are we perhaps going to be the only Scouts that will be fighting here in the future?"
"No, I don't think so. I have a very strong feeling, for some reason, that there'll actually be plenty more Scouts to awaken in the future for us. And do so whenever the need might then arise for them each to do so here. I don't know who they'll be, and when they might appear, of course. But I fully expect that we'll be seeing plenty more Scouts in the future, just the same."
Around 5 pm, after some more time working in the cavern and the nearby nooks as they saw fit to work in them, Sky asked Ren, "What do you call your vehicle, if you actually have a name for it?"
"I call it 'Spiritseeker,' Skyhorse. That's what its original builder called it, and the name has stuck ever since it was first constructed. Over time, it has been modified inside and out, but the name has still stuck for it. And I see no reason why it should ever change in the future, if it can possibly be avoided at all, in fact."
"I suppose you're right, Ren. I mean, it's your vehicle, and you can call it whatever you want, of course."
They worked until about 6 pm, more or less, before Ren suggested that it might be best if they leave the cavern behind again in very short order. Sky considered her suggestion for a few minutes, at most, before saying, "Very well, Ren. We'll come back here and continue setting up this base of operations later. I'd suggest the next time you come here, you start bringing more of your things here, if and whenever possible. Not everything, of course, but enough things here over time to make sure you have a retreat of sorts you can go to in case the need arises for you to do so in the future."
"Perhaps you're right. Have you begun bringing some of your things here already?"
"Sure I have. I've brought assorted things here from my bedroom that most likely won't be missed at all from it. Or at least not very much, at the current time, I think. That's if I'm accurate enough with my thoughts about such things, of course."
"Should we bring Isaiah here the first chance we get?"
"If at all possible?"
"Yes, of course that's what I mean." They soon began to get ready to leave the cavern again, so that they could do other things they might then need to do in their respective lives.
"Sure, if we can convince him to come here well enough. Seeing as that we're now both Sailor Scouts in our lives, we must now also do our very best to keep countless others from knowing about our respective Scout states at all. That's if they don't actually need to know about them at all, quite obviously enough. No matter who they are. I fully realize we may not always be able to prevent that from ever happening at least once sometime in the future, if not more than once in it. That's for all the obvious reasons, Renaissance. But we still have to try to do that to the best of our respective abilities to do so in it, of course. At least for as long as we can, however that might be possible for us to do, anyway."
By 6:20 pm, then, they were both gone from the cavern and its immediate area again. They split up just after leaving the cavern's area behind enough. And they didn't expect to meet each other again for the rest of the night, when they did so. Kiena/Renaissance soon went back to her home, and began collecting assorted things from her room as Sylvia/Skyhorse had earlier suggested to her.
As for Skyhorse, she patrolled for a little while in her van, before powering down while still driving it. By the time she found herself at a local dance hall elsewhere in the area, she was again just Sylvia Wakefield again. After stopping there, she soon entered it, and found an empty place to sit down in it. She soon pulled a sketchpad out of her backpack, and some drawing utensils, where needed. Next, she began sketching assorted people elsewhere in that dance hall. Whether they were the patrons or the staff of the dance hall, she did so. However, she didn't quite draw them just as they then looked, for some reason she didn't quite understand just yet, if she ever would do so, in her life. Instead, she drew them as if they were people from a long-lost time and place. Specifically, she drew them as if they were people who'd been residents of Earth's Moon during the Silver Millennium, whether they were Moon-born or not.
She sketched many of them in fancy dresses or other suitable clothing appropriate for about a thousand years before, if not all of them. There were several people present in the dance hall who seemed at least a little familiar to her, though she didn't actually know why that might be the case for her right now. Among the people there was a girl with a rather weird hairstyle. This particular girl had meatball-like buns and rather long ponytails on her head. And they currently appeared blonde, whether or not they actually were at the present time, in the currently-available light for the dance hall.
This girl was to be a Scout in the future, though neither Sylvia nor she yet knew that yet. Nor did anyone else mortal, for that matter. She wouldn't be revealed and/or awakened as such for a considerable length of time. But she was going to eventually be revealed and/or awakened as one sometime yet in the future. She was currently dancing with a boy about her present age of roughly fourteen years or so old. But this boy wouldn't be one who generally would aid her when she fought in the future, most likely.
Other future Scouts were also present in the dance hall, though they all didn't know that yet, in fact. In time, they too would be revealed and awakened as Scouts, when the need for them to be arose for each of them in their lives. Just not for a while would they likely be, if the need for them to be hadn't yet made itself known, and if they couldn't be found before they were actually meant to become Scouts.
Sylvia stayed in the dance hall for about an hour or so, until about 7:45 pm or so local time. And she periodically sketched several dozen people in the dance hall as the urge struck her to do so while there. No matter who they might be, she still did so, just the same.
Eventually, she got bored with doing so, and left the dance hall behind here. She left rather calmly and rather silently, if at all possible, at the current time. After which, she returned to her van, and continued her patrolling in the local area at least a bit more, in fact. She didn't transform back into Skyhorse as she did so, but she still resumed patrolling in the local area for at least a little while longer, just the same.
She patrolled in the area until about 8:15 or so, before deciding to head off toward Sweet Musicalisti again. Reuben and Timothy were working near the stable complex's main gates when she pulled up to them. They let her onto the complex's grounds, as usual, and she soon went to Serenade's stall. By 9, then, she was on his back, riding him around the same riding area that Jonah had earlier watched them in. And she was there with him while Jonah and others were nearby, as the need then arose for them to be near there.
She rode him around that area until about 9:30, before he said, "I think that's enough time for today, Sylvia. I'd like to go back to my stall again now." So Sylvia took him back to his stall as soon as she could then do so here. And she prepared his stall as needed for the rest of the night. As she did so, alone, they briefly conversed secretly with each other, with him apparently making horse kinds of sounds, just in case other people might be hearing him at the present time, while he was actually talking with her. As for her, she didn't seem to say anything that the average person who didn't know of the Scouts or that Serenade could talk might find even the least bit suspicious at all. Even though she actually was talking to him about the things that'd happened for her and Kiena earlier that day, whenever they were both together with each other then.
Around 10, more or less, she finished preparing Serenade and his stall for the rest of the night. With that done, he soon said good night to her, and went to sleep as he saw fit in his stall. Before he went to sleep, she wished him rather pleasant dreams, of course. Eventually, though, after he'd gone to sleep in his stall, she left it, and took care of herself as her situation then required her to here. She took care of herself in the necessary manner or manners in rather short order, and was completely gone from Sweet Musicalisti's grounds by 10:30 pm.
Sylvia then went to Liz's house briefly, and visited her for a little while. She showed her a few of the sketches that she'd made at the dance hall. And Liz eventually said, "Some of these have potential to be good paintings for you, I think, Sylvia."
"You do?"
"For instance, a few of these sketches seem to feature a girl apparently with blonde hair in a strange hairstyle. Others seem to feature several other people with assorted hair colors and styles. Do you know any of them at all, by any chance?"
"No, I don't believe so. Why do you ask?"
"Because you might want to try to find out who they are, I suspect, for some yet-unknown reason. I don't know why I think you might want to do that in the future. I just know that I think that you might want to some length of time in the future. At least I think that might be true for you right now, if I won't always think that here for you."
Sylvia and Liz conversed for a little while longer with each other. And they did so mostly in the McCalls' living room area, before Liz eventually said, "I suppose I'd better get to bed now. For it's getting rather close to my usual bedtime on Saturday night, it seems to me, Sylvia. Let's talk again later, if and whenever we can."
Sylvia left Liz's home again in rather short order. After leaving her friend's house, she went back to Wakefield Castle for the rest of the night. She was back there by 11:15 pm or so, local time. By 11:30, she was in her room for the rest of the night. And by 11:45, in her bed, quite soundly asleep in it, lost in dreams of the past again, for that matter.