Perhaps we both allowed ourselves to believe that things would be as simple as they were with Usagi and the others. [Because it was simple, with Usagi. Usagi was the sort to trust so implicitly, so immediately in people with her whole heart, even to the arguments of others. She smiled as she thought of their princess, but then pressed her lips together.]
Perhaps we are being unkind... we trusted as we might with a senshi, with Usagi, but they are neither. [Even with Tadashi's Sailor Earth joke.] It is unfair to ask them to trust so deeply when they are more like you and I and less like Usagi...
[At being held close, she stiffened for only a moment, because she was not the sort to do physical touch easily. But then she relaxed into Rei, she held onto her sister in battle and wrapped her arms around Rei. She could trust Rei, she could trust Minako, she could trust the girls. And maybe, someday in the distant future, she could trust in Hiro and Tadashi almost as deeply. But it was unkind of her to ask it of them now.]
It's alright to be afraid. We've never been in something like this before, we've never been without all the girls and our princess this long before, you longest of all. There is no rush, honestly. Until a real threat rises, we'll slowly collect our data and take our time. This is to be a long battle, we must go at a slow pace, tend to our embers until we must be a roaring fire. [She stroked Rei's hair.]
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Perhaps we are being unkind... we trusted as we might with a senshi, with Usagi, but they are neither. [Even with Tadashi's Sailor Earth joke.] It is unfair to ask them to trust so deeply when they are more like you and I and less like Usagi...
[At being held close, she stiffened for only a moment, because she was not the sort to do physical touch easily. But then she relaxed into Rei, she held onto her sister in battle and wrapped her arms around Rei. She could trust Rei, she could trust Minako, she could trust the girls. And maybe, someday in the distant future, she could trust in Hiro and Tadashi almost as deeply. But it was unkind of her to ask it of them now.]
It's alright to be afraid. We've never been in something like this before, we've never been without all the girls and our princess this long before, you longest of all. There is no rush, honestly. Until a real threat rises, we'll slowly collect our data and take our time. This is to be a long battle, we must go at a slow pace, tend to our embers until we must be a roaring fire. [She stroked Rei's hair.]