Dramatis Personae, in Order of Appearance
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The Moon that bled her soul

Shadows swallowed any hope of light from the corners of the room. A candle
flickered its golds and reds as melted wax ran unheeded on white marble. It
watched itself in the mirror; watched it's colors darken the hue of its
patron's eyes, turning them to a burning fire.

A fingertip carresed the reflection in the mirror, a wayward strand of hair,
a crimson tress.

"Pretty..." A soft sigh, whispered of nothing. She was beautiful; anyone
would love her.

"Helios..." Tears burned in her eyes, refusing to be shed.

Bitterness twisted her lips, marring the goddess' beauty. She stood,
knocking the sputtering candle aside, never feeling the liquid wax that had
splashed on her fingers. The candle gratefully, silently went out and the
shadows encroached upon the sudden chance of darkness.

"You will be mine," the goddess spoke to the darknes. "You will be mine
again..."

Chibiusa moved away from her desk and the cooling candle. She paused a
moment at her bed to finger the coverlet, before turning quickly away and
leaving the room. The hem of her skirts swished angrily as she moved down
the hall. Her hand clutched tightly around the pinkish crystal dangling
from a silver chain around her neck, the knuckles turning white. Slowly,
she began to hum, something small under her breath.

Somewhere about mid-stride, she called out her henshin phrase, pausing
momentarily to finish transforming, before again heading on her way. The
humming resumed as she walked through the palace. Her sound reverberated
eerily in the hollow halls.