Epilogue

Two or so weeks later, it was Monday, February 11, 1991. Sylvia encountered Rolando just before school, and they both were quite glad to see each other. He asked her, "Would you like to go out with me to celebrate my birthday, Miss Wakefield?"

"As a matter of fact, I would, Mr. Volois. We can also celebrate my birthday together, as well, because a major Negaverse monster attack and my parents kept me from celebrating mine with you on it."

"Word has it that you haven't been seen in and/or near Wakefield Castle for at least two weeks, if not longer, according to my sister Astrid."

"I see. Well, that is true, Mr. Volois. I am staying elsewhere at the current time. Where, I don't really want to say. However, Sailor Skyhorse does want to say, through me, that she thinks you're quite cool, and that she's definitely interested in you a great deal. Be on the roof of, or in, the library where we've periodically met each other by 7 tonight, if at all possible. Then we'll talk with each other as needed."

"As you wish, Miss Wakefield." Eventually, they parted, and went to their respective classes all school day long. They briefly conversed with each other before starting to attend to other things they had to do before the current time.

For instance, after school, Sylvia patrolled the local area of Jerusalem for a while. Both as Sylvia and as Skyhorse, in fact. No trouble arose that required her urgent attention as a Scout, so she eventually powered down again.

She returned briefly to the cavern when she could, and prepared for her night out with Rolando. She, of course, made quite sure that her power locket was with her quite securely, before she left the cavern wearing exactly the same dress, or almost exactly the same dress, that she'd worn to a ball the night that she and Rolando had first kissed each other during the times of the Silver Millennium.

She arrived wherever necessary by the agreed-upon time. When she did, all the Scouts were quietly reading, at least for the most part, there. No trouble had arisen which would require their attentions that night, nor would any do so at all, in fact. Sylvia and Rolando soon went to a safe enough place in or on the library, and she had Rolando turn around and close his eyes temporarily. When she was entirely certain that no mortal being could see, hear, and/or detect, at least, her doing so well enough, even Rolando or any Negaverser, at the moment, she powered up and became Sailor Skyhorse again. Skyhorse soon let Rolando open his eyes and turn around. Of course, he saw Skyhorse, and only Skyhorse, at the current time here.

He said, "Hello, Skyhorse. Miss Wakefield said you were interested in me now a great deal, and that you thought I was quite cool."

"Yes, she's right, on both counts."

"Where is she now? She was just here."

"She still is."

"I don't see her." He looked around briefly, as he said that.

"Very well, Rolando. It doesn't seem you have all your memories of the past back well enough just yet. It seems we will have to kiss to rectify that little problem here, then."

"What do you mean, 'kiss,' Skyhorse?"

"That's exactly what I mean. It seems we're a couple, or at least we were long ago. I was your girlfriend, and you were my boyfriend then. May we kiss?"

"Will Sylvia see us?"

"She will. If you and I kiss, you will understand fully what I'm talking about. And so will she and I, for that matter. There is also a sleeping part of you who will understand these things fully, just so you know."

"Will she be mad at us if and/or whenever we might kiss?"

"No, she won't. I can totally guarantee it, as God is my witness, that she won't be."

"Very well, then. If we must kiss, then let's do it, Skyhorse."

She walked over to him, and sat down near him, as she had him sit down as well. Before she took her gloves off and stuck them behind her tiara, for lack of a better place at present to put them, she said, "Are you sure about that, Rolando? Because once we kiss, nothing will be entirely as it actually is now for you in your life, I believe. Your life will change forever, if I'm not too mistaken about such a thing here in my life."

"I understand, Skyhorse. Or at least I think I do."

"You don't understand enough yet. But you will, if we kiss. Once we kiss, there'll most likely be no way that things will ever be as they were or are for us in our lives again, Rolando. Just so you know this well enough here, before we'd likely change both our lives for the rest of them, at least, if not for all eternity yet to come for us both."

"I see. What are we waiting for, then? I want to see Sylvia again, and I don't. Please bring Sylvia to me."

"As you wish, Rolando. But know this, before we kiss. The road for you may prove much more difficult than you might expect it to be in your life. And not just for you, but also for others who might often be found along the road of it as you still continue your pilgrimage to your eventual eternal home, wherever it might lead you to one day."

"As you say, so shall it be, God willing, Skyhorse."

"Agreed. Now hold my head in your hands, and I shall do the same with your head and my hands," said Skyhorse. They both did as she wanted them to both do here.

They looked into each other's eyes for about a minute or two, without saying anything at all to each other. Seeing no remaining doubts in any of their four eyes, they then looked just at each other's waiting lips. Their worlds shrank down until all they could see and think about were their four lips. Nothing else existed, at least as far as they were conscious of anything mortal in their respective lives. About three minutes or so after they'd stopped looking in each other's eyes, their lips all met for the first time in a rather passionate, yet rather gentle, kiss. All their memories of their past in the times of the Silver Millennium started flooding back into their consciousnesses from long-dormant parts of their minds. As they began exchanging kisses with each other on the roof of the library, Skyhorse briefly powered down unconsciously. So Rolando saw Skyhorse was Sylvia, and vice versa. As they still kissed, he felt himself powering up and becoming the Pilgrim as well. As he became the Pilgrim knowingly for the first time in this time period, she re-powered herself up into her Sailor Skyhorse state just as unconsciously as she'd briefly left it here. After about ten or so minutes of kisses between them both, all their memories of their respective pasts of about a millennium before had fully returned to them both, possibly once and for all. Or at least as long as they might live their lives in this particular time period, anyway.

By 8, then, they left the entire grounds of the library behind, in fact, for elsewhere in the local area. They then spent the next four or so hours, at most, with each other, before parting from each other near their respective vehicles again.

At one place they went with each other, they encountered a person who they might often run into during future Scout battles. They didn't yet know who she was, and why she might do that. But while they were in the same place as she then was, elsewhere in the area, that girl or woman said, to Rolando, "If you don't marry before the end of your 19th birthday, young man, you will be dead by the end of your 20th. And she will be dead by then, as well." Sylvia and Rolando were obviously quite upset when she said that. But when they tried to confront that female about what she'd just said to them, they eluded Sylvia and Rolando, and melted into the crowd present where the two reunited sweethearts had encountered her. After ten or so minutes of trying to find her again, without success, they eventually gave up trying to do so at the current time. The rest of their time together currently went relatively present for them both.

Just before they parted with a few brief kisses and embraces of each other, Sylvia said, "Don't worry about what she said too much, Rolando."

"But she said that if I'm not married by about this same time next year, I will be dead by about this time two years from now, and so will you, Sylvia."

"If God wishes to call us home before too much more time passes for us in our lives, so be it. But if not, then I don't think things will be as that person predicted they'd be, Rolando. So I think you should let God handle that sort of thing for you and your life, as best as you possibly can, of course."

They soon parted, as already stated here. Sylvia returned to the cavern and Rolando to his own family's residence in the local area. Both of them were at their respective destinations by 1 am local time, at the very latest, in any case at all.

When Sylvia arrived back at the cavern again, Kiena was waiting for her there. Sylvia conversed for about ten or so minutes with her about the night that Sylvia had just spent with Rolando, before saying, "Wow! Some night! You must have had a really good night then."

"For the most part, yes." Sylvia then told Kiena about the stranger's unexpected prediction. Kiena wasn't very happy when she learned about that prediction, of course.

"I wonder if this stranger could be a potential enemy in the future, Sylvia," said Kiena, eventually.

"I'd not be all that surprised if that ever turns out to actually be the case for any or all of us, Kiena." The two girls conversed for just a little while longer, before Kiena left the cavern again by 1:30 in the morning.

Sylvia was in her bed again by 1:45, and quite soundly asleep in it by 2. After she was, beyond any possible doubt at all, that way, she began dreaming other dreams in her life that had nothing at all to do with her previous time from the days of the Silver Millennium. She did this for the first time, probably, in about five months, at least, if not even longer. And so she slept in her bed until it was time for her to wake up and go to school again in her life.

End of Story One