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Dashing across town, the only thoughts that Chibimoon really had was that firstly, she was going to have to find someone to stick with her when she tried to do stuff like this. There had been no less than two youma that had required dusting on the way to this playground, and her energy was flagging. Rainbow Moon Heartache had proved to be yet-again unreliable, so it was a rather strong blessing that she had Moon Tiara Magic on her side!

The second thought was rectifying this idea of everyone calling her Princess. Yes, technically, she was a princess. Her mother was a queen, her father had been a king. But neither of them were currently alive, and she did not technically exist in the lineage of the Moon Kingdom. Never mind that it felt wholly wrong to be spoken of in the same breath with her mother, who was a far better ruler than her daughter could ever hope to be.

Pink heels kicked up snow as Chibimoon jogged over, breath visible and coming in short pants. One thing she missed most about Wiseman? Teleportation. "I am sorry to be late. I had to wait for the house to sleep, and...ugh. Youma." Shoulders slumped for a moment as she took a deep breath, popping up with a smile and a hand out. "Sailor Europa? I am happy to meet you, and sorry I didn't get to at the meeting." Certainly, she'd met everyone else there!

There was one thing that Chibiusa had over her mother, and that was the simple fact that she'd had the opportunity to be born royal. Royal deportment, royal posture, and the ability to handle things like having people randomly put themselves at your personal disposal. "And I am at your service, very much. I am glad you did not bother me, if you have many questions. There are some things that take more time to tell, and my language is still not so good. Also please, I'm very used to Small Lady. Mama called me Small Lady Serenity always, and it is more...me." Color totally independent of the light chill burns on her cheeks stained her color; embarrassment was easy to feel when correcting someone.

"I am happy to tell you what I can as long as I can. My house wakes up sometimes to check on me because I am grounded after the ball." Still. Perry now knew exactly what his little foster daughter was up to and wholeheartedly approved of it, but grounded was grounded.

Grounded sucked.

It was an easy question and garnered an easy answer, in the language specified by Europa. A flurry of Japanese left Chibimoon's lips and hung in the air as she giggled almost childishly. It was indeed a childish response to a serious question, but Chibi herself was rather close to being a child. Certainly fifteen was nowhere near being an adult! "Yes. I read, write, and speak Japanese, it is my first language. I still think in Japanese, it is very hard sometimes." She probably should not have been surprised that Europa had pinned her accent, if she knew where Sailor Moon and her comrades had lived and fought.

She also was direly interested in what had happened here to make such a mistake. "Is that what you were told? That mama...that Sailor Moon died because of Beryl?" Her eyes were carefully blank, remarkably similar to the habitual look that Black Lady had worn every day of her existence. It was the look saying that if Beryl had killed her mother, Beryl would die. "I think that is very odd. She would not have hurt...Endymion." Or at least, the Beryl she had known from stories would not have.

Feet crunched on cold playground material as the princess walked over and sat down on a swing, kicking lightly back and forth as she looked at Europa and thought carefully. It looked like there was perhaps something more to this story, but perhaps she was not sure if it were true or not? Certainly Chibi didn't want to know maybes or possibilities. They always were worse than the actual, and she didn't need that. At all. So instead, she leaned against the cool metal and moved back and forth lightly.

"It is very easy to talk about what I have seen and where I have come from. It is not very easy to talk about the crystals. I only know what Mercury...she was my teacher? She told me all I know. I am happy to share. Do you know what a Great Crystal is?" That was an important question, and would be a rather important piece of education for a senshi. They were perhaps told to find the Princess, but if the ginzuishou could be found independently, perhaps all things were possible.

She wasn't hopeful.

Europa needed to be given some credit, she was swimming in a vast ocean of things that really made no sense, but were magically made so. Realistically, Sailor Moon should have realized almost immediately that she was the Princess they had been looking for. It should have made no sense whatsoever that Sailor V was their royal. Yet the magic had made it all work, protected Usagi until she had at least grasped somewhat the importance of her position and their mission. Minako had always had a grasp on it, so she had been the natural decoy, it was why she was the leader.

God, but she missed them!

"It is a thing to know. When Luna found Sailor Moon, they did not know she was the Princess. It was not until all the Rainbow Crystals were found that they knew. She was...hiding?" Fingers linked over Chibimoon's face before she peered through them, like being behind a mask of some sort. It was more than a little embarrassing to have to mime everything at her age, but the Japanese teen was getting used to it. Slowly. "Just so that she could learn to fight and be safe. It is a maybe thing that she is one of you now, but I am not sure. I do not want to play with this idea, it is better that we learn to fight alone." Fingers tapped against the metal of the swing, thinking of her words before speaking them. The concept of a Great Crystal was irritatingly close to that of a star seed, though they were not quite the same thing.

"The Silver Crystal is a Great Crystal. All people have a star seed. Here." Fingers reached out and lightly, impersonally touched over the center of Europa's chest. "You know this, right? Some have stars with so much power that they need two. The other one is the Great Crystal. It is the power of their space. Many planets into one? It can destroy with a thought, but if you do that, you die." Chibimoon's face was dead serious, for all that her language was somewhat childish. "It is a power so big that it kills when you use it. They are very rare." She did not mention that she held this power, no. It was unstable at best, and she did not want to be a new Messiah. It was far too painful, problematic, and she didn't want to die.

"If we get all the small crystals, we maybe will have a power like that. Maybe. It is very unsure, but we do not want Beryl to have anything like it anyway!" The name of the Negaverse Queen was spat out of her tiny charming mouth like a curse word, the look on Chibimoon's face not a pleasant one. No one had to ask how she felt about the Negaverse!

Thankfully for all of them, Chibimoon's comprehension skills were much better than her spoken ones. She could understand more words than she could use properly, God bless context clues. So when Europa touched on the idea of glamour and henshin on the princess so that Sailor Moon might learn to fight, Chibi all but threw herself out of the swing with nodding so enthusiastically. "Yes! Like that!" It silenced her almost immediately though, the idea that she ought to act as their princess until a better one came along. It was exactly what Nova had told Chibimoon she ought to do, and the pink senshi of the Moon.

"You are maybe right. I will help how I can, I will not stop you if you think I should be the princess. It is just...not a thing I would have demanded." The smile was hesitant before she continued slowly and with a bit of hesitance in her voice. "I do not think you will believe me, but I will tell you. I am from Crystal Tokyo, in the 30th century." Waiting for a moment to let Europa absorb that, she continued on. "Where I come from, Sailor Moon did not lose ever. We won, I went home, and grew up." There was always a sad smile for the memory of her home, and the people in it. "After Sailor Moon got rid of the Doom Phantom with mama's help in the future, there was only peace in Crystal Tokyo. It was so pretty, so happy, I was a year from being a true Princess, and...Helios." Color that had nothing to do with the cold rose to Chibimoon's cheeks at this, and she trailed off, shaking herself from the reverie.

"I do not how I got here." There was a definite look of consternation now, thinking as she leaned back into the motion of the swing. "I was in my room, and Puu...Sailor Pluto." Fingers lightly flicked against her forehead, it was a bad habit to use nicknames when speaking of people. Time and time again Michiru had tried to drill that into her, but it had never really stuck! "I do not remember past seeing her. I saw her, things were black and I was alone." It was all she was going to say. Europa was seemingly understanding and rather curious, but the world at large did not need to know about her time as Black Lady Serenity. Not at all.

Chibi swung for a moment more before standing, obviously reluctant to get up from the playground equipment. There was something endlessly soothing about the motion of a swing, the ease with which you could move your whole world back and forth. Offhandedly, she remembered that even in Tokyo when she'd run away, she had always gone to the swings. Odd.

"I will be very happy to help you! You could call my cell phone, and oh. School? I go to ah..Meadowview! The public high school? I think that is its name." There was a quick look of embarrassment at the fact that Chibimoon could remember things that no one else knew, but when it came to common knowledge about the city she lived in? Blanks. Always blanks. "They have the red uniform. It does not go with my hair at all." Red and pink. No matter what anyone said, redheads did not look good in pink, and girls with pink hair never wore red. They looked like something Hallmark would have vomited up in February, and it was not flattering.

"Do you go? Or are you too old?" Personally, the Moon senshi would have thought that Europa was smart enough to not be in school, or to maybe be finished. But she did not look very old! These things were deceptive, however. She would know, being that she was much older than she looked!