Corona slipped through the employee entrence after sliding her key card and simply walking
right in. She went strait to her locker, there were few here this time of night, but she
didn't care, she obviously wasn't going to get any more sleep this night.
It was hard to believe that things could change so quickly. Danger in Crystal Tokyo, her
thoughts ran wild. She should be able to help them but she couldn't. She was powerless and
because of that the Zodiak would never be whole, as long as she lived, and the Queen would
not permit anything to happen to anyone inline for her thrown.
She scowled at the thought of her own Sailor Guardians. Who in their right mind would want
to destroy her? Why would they? There was no way the Elders would allow a powerless Queen
assume the thrown much less become third or second inline to the thrown.
Everything was a mess and everything was wrong, wrong, WRONG!
She opened her locker, grabbed her shower bag and her towel and slammed it shut with a bang,
causing the doors to the lockers on the same block as hers to rattle. She threw them down
on the bench, stripped and wrapped the towel about her and went to take her shower, hoping
against all hopes that the cold blast would drain her body of its grogginess.
Throwing her towel over the stall door she entered and turned the water on as cold as it
would go, shivering she scrubbed the anger, the hurt and the loss from her mind and her
body. Satisfied she'd accomplished her mind numbing task she shut off the water and wrapped
herself again in her towel, returned to her locker, dried and dressed.
She smiled, she'd do something she did regularly which the other keepers had thought her
crazy for, she would go into the tiger "aquarium" and sit upon a rock over the mock cave and
think.
The keys around her belt loop jingled and her foot falls echoed through the halls until she
came outside into the night and crossed the Zoo from its northern side to its eastern where
she was greated by a familiar site, Ishtar, the bangle, was waitng for her as if he knew she
would be coming.
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