She hadn’t truly intended to come up to space, but sometimes things just happened. And when they happened, it was always for a reason, that much was for sure. She had been playing with the phone that Horatio had given her hand her thumb had been just resting on the home button. Her mind had been wandering, that much was for certain, and it had landed once again on the thing that was the biggest little mystery in her life, her planet, or asteroid, whatever.

No, maybe not whatever. She knew that Lutetia was an asteroid, she had looked it up after she was told she could go there. It was a big asteroid too, over a hundred kilometers long, or so Wikipedia had said. But hey. You couldn’t trust Wikipedia for everything after all, weren’t her teachers always telling her that?

Lutetia looked around the barren surface of her asteroid with trepidation. Seriously, she hadn’t meant to come up here. All she was doing was thinking about it, and she pressed the button by accident, and then she was here. Here alone on a huge asteroid.

Out in space.

The chibi swallowed hard and looked around. Well. This didn’t have to be such a bad thing. After all, she could get back all right, she was sure. Besides, she had wanted to come out here, she had wanted to figure out how to get here, and she had, right? So this was a good thing. An answer to her plans and something wonderful. Something exciting.

Slowly the teen got up and looked around a bit more closely. For a place that was supposed to give her power and help to make her into a real senshi, well. This place was a dump. There was nothing but dirt for as far as she could see, dirt and dust and well. Nothing. A whole lot of nothing. Lutetia scowled. Well, at times like this normally the best thing to do would be to stay where you were, but in this case, she figured walking would be the best thing. As the girl squinted off in all directions, finally she thought she could see something far, far ahead on the left, so of course that was the direction she decided to go in.

It took at least three hours of walking before the mystery of whatever was in the distance was solved, and Lutetia was absolutely pooped. She didn’t know why she was even bothering to continue on this journey of hers. What would it solve? Right now all she really wanted to do was head back to the dorm and snuggle down into her nice warm bed and sleep for a long while. Maybe for a day or two at least.

She looked around at what was before her and scoffed. It was nothing more than a hill. Though, at least it had some trees and shrubs on it. She was starting to think that this place really was just an empty hole with nothing useful about it, when she noticed the door. There was a door built right into the hillside. Well, that was at least something interesting, better than dead and dying shrubs and plants and tumble weeds. She really was getting tired of all of that. Cautiously, the senshi made her way to the door and gently pushed it open, going into what just seemed to be a room. A large room, sure, but just a room.

There were a few things scattered around it and she went to look at just what they were. As she made her way over to one of the corners, (because whoever had made this room somehow managed to make it square even though the hill was roundish. She didn’t want to think about how they did that, but hey. It was done) she noticed something glinting in the light. She leaned down and picked up whatever it was. It was round and looked almost like a bell. When she shook it, it made a very tinny sort of jingle. Lutetia nodded. So it was a bell after all. Well that was—

A large animal was in the room with her, not quite a cow, and not quite an ox, it seemed friendly enough, giving a soft lowing sound as it took some sort of grassy thing from a hand that wasn’t her own.

Lutetia wasn’t sure just what was going on and she rubbed her eyes quickly but that didn’t help whatever this vision was, in fact, when her eyes were closed it seemed to close in on her full force.

“Evanna! Evanna hurry up.” A woman peered her head in through the door and looked at the gangly girl who was stroking the nose of the animal in the middle of the room. “Evanna, you know you have this meeting. You’ve known about it for weeks.” The woman had fully entered the room now and looked positively angry. “Why aren’t you dressed? Are you going to let us all down? We need you, child. You know that. You have responsibilities to this land, to all of us, and it’s high time you took them seriously.”

The girl, Evanna rolled her eyes, which were a bright amber color. Her hair was shoulder length and the color of straw and she just looked annoyed. “I know I have responsibilities, Elda, I know. But I don’t want—“

The woman, Elda shook her head. “It doesn’t matter what you want, girl. This is your destiny, this is your purpose, now you get ready for the pilgrimage, and you get a move on. They are expecting you there tomorrow evening, and I want them to know that I haven’t wasted my time looking after you for all of these years!”

Evanna scoffed again. “Sure, Elda. Sure. Whatever you say.”

Lutetia watched as she wrapped a ribbon around the animal’s neck, a ribbon which held the very same bell that Lutetia held in her hand, and with that, the vision broke.

It was almost as though she had been slapped in the face. What had it all been? It had felt so real. And now she just felt exhausted. Even more exhausted than she had when she had made it to the hill—barn, whatever this place was. This thing.

It was too much. Too much to deal with right now and she wanted to leave before something else happened. Quickly Lutetia groped for her phone and pressed down on the Home button once more, trying to focus her thoughts on nothing but her nice, warm, normal bed in her nice normal dorm at Crystal Academy.

And there she went.