“Can we stop at McDonald’s on the way home?”

From the upcoming update to Ill Met by Moonlight:

Saturn’s voice before had been soft and sad, human-like. Moreso than Venus’s own voice of bombastic pride and fury. Now, however, it took on a much harder and colder tone, that suited to she who was Death and was Destruction intertwined.

“Yes, I know you. I know why you fear. You think Pluto has come here, that your time to wear the body of Aino Minako like a corpse and to do with it what you will has come to an end. The Outers did not draw their talismans together, not yet. That did not awaken me. The old Queen, the dead Queen, the one who trusted you with all of us did. The one who took me from the arms of Princess Uranus, the closest figure I have ever had to a father, weeping and wailing.

Not the Princess of Saturn, me. Guardian Saturn, Guardian of Death and Destruction. I wailed, I begged not to sleep for a thousand years but so I did, and then I saw my father one last time, bleeding and despairing. And now, here, there is no Uranus. There is only Serenity, bearing both burdens.

You have wasted my time with this posturing as if you are some great force worthy of admiration. You have heard the first lesson, and now for the second.”

Venus raised her blade.

“It is in the name of Queen Serenity that I do this.”

Saturn laughed, coldly and with an aura of menace that even Venus felt.

’“Always the same pious excuse. ‘I was only following orders’ when you disciplined the other Senshi by the blade and by the fist. 'I was only following orders’ when you ensured a girl of fourteen was locked in Senshi-shape and left to slumber all those years.’ ”

She did not telegraph her move or what the move would be. The first sign of it was when Venus was flying through the air and her stomach *hurt* and it hurt *awfully*, like when she’d fought Ace and thought he couldn’t possibly mean what he did.

She landed hard, clutching her stomach, the first of Saturn clenched tight.

“That is the other lesson. I am awake now. Only the Princesses and Pluto are more powerful than I and they are above fighting and strife. You command us, but you cannot bully us like some overpromoted sergeant masquerading as a general. Raise your blade to me again, little Venus, and I will gladly show you what the Giaive of Silence can do. In all of this, did you bother to remember about the Prince of Terra or Sailor Moon?”

Venus’s eyes flashed open then but before she could protest Saturn flew off with a contemptuous ease, following the same dark presence she’d felt.

I believe in miracles✨

I just don‘t want anymore…

All around me the world seems beautiful… but why isn‘t it?