It had been eating at her since she left Lutetia. The vision that she had had, some sort of whisper of the past. Where did the girl have to go? And why did she have to go there? That Evanna who seemed to be so against it. Against whatever it was that she had to do.

Samantha stared out of her window, thinking hard. She had enough time for a visit up there again, didn’t she? A visit up to Lutetia just to see if another vision would come, to see if she could figure something else out about how to become a real senshi.

Being in her dorm was the safest possible place to do this thing, right? Nobody could find her while she was safe inside, and she would be right back here when she returned from space, so it was clearly a win/win situation. With a little grin, Samantha withdrew her henshin pen and held it tightly, looking at it fondly. It had become a friend to her, something that was truly a part of her life and for as stupid as she had once thought it was, she really did love being a senshi.

Samantha gave the pen a loving stroke with her thumb, then gripped it tightly, saying the words to power herself up into Chibi Sailor Lutetia. Henshining was still one of the strangest sensations she had ever felt, but it was a good one, it felt like going from something bland into a party of sorts, and hey. She was going from a school uniform into a costume after all. A costume with an invisible mask, as her friend Goretti had once said.

She came out of the transformation with a large grin on her face and shook her head, wondering how her friend was. Well, she had a simple way of finding out, plus she needed the phone anyway and there it was. Lutetia wrote a quick text to Goretti and sent it off before resting her thumb gently over the home button and closing her eyes to focus.

She felt the pull of her planet almost immediately and pressed down on the button, expecting the same thing to happen. Expecting to open her eyes and find herself on Lutetia, surrounded by dust and memories and visions.

What she did not expect was opening her eyes and still being in her dorm room. The grin faded slightly from her face and she tried again, pressing the button a little harder and focusing a bit more on Lutetia. Perhaps she hadn’t been concentrating hard enough?

Lutetia counted up to one hundred before she opened her eyes again, and the grin slid completely from her face. She was still in her room. Why wasn’t this working?

Could it be that it wouldn’t work while she was inside? Or was she just doing something wrong?

The chibi senshi held the cell phone in her hand tightly and opened the window, looking down onto the grounds of Crystal Academy. There wasn’t anyone in sight, so she jumped out, landing smoothly on the ground. There. Now that she was outside, this had to work. It just had to.

Lutetia closed her eyes once more and held the phone close, thinking about her asteroid with every fiber of her being and pressed down on the button, hoping and thinking and concentrating. This time, this time she knew she wasn’t there even without opening her eyes. The same breeze was blowing against her face, it hadn’t stopped.

She was still on earth. Stuck on earth. Or as one might say, she was grounded.

The senshi felt tears prickle in her eyes and reached up to scrub at them, shaking her head and looking around once more before jumping back up to her window and climbing through, only to turn back into Samantha and slam the window shut.

What had she done wrong? It had worked the last time, but then again she had gotten up there completely by accident. Maybe she couldn’t go on her own and it had to happen by accident? But that didn’t make sense either! If she could only go to Lutetia by accident, well she’d never get to become a real senshi, or figure out what Evanna had to go and do! This wasn’t fair.
The teenager threw herself onto her bed, burying her face in the pillow and moped. Being grounded sucked.