Emily Wren didn't sneak away until after her aunt was admitted for observation overnight, her uncle with herm and Flynn home with Rosie. She had no idea where her father was, but Emily didn't wait to find out, slipping out once Flynn and Rosie were sleeping, before powering, and with a flick of the wrist, a press of a button, and a movement that spoke volumes...

She was on her Homeworld.

She wasn't fond of it, but it seemed Youma-free, and Elpis wanted to be alone, walking through ruins silently as she sighed. She'd had to save her aunt, had to alter the future, and still...

She'd failed Sailor Ferris and Sailor Callisto. How? To what porpuse?

The senshi sighed, sitting on a seat in a tall stone and petrified wood building and rubbed her sinuses, frowning several moments, before seizing in alarm as visions began to fill her field of virew -- a memory, likely, and not something she felt prepared for.

Sailor Elpis was decked in her uniform, and they'd barely won the capital battle. It was difficult, but the Senshi succeeded, and now she waited, watching for word on the King. His wife had fallen ill, and passed, recently; and Elpis was all panic for the fate of the royal fgamily. The king bore no heirs, no siblings -- he was the lasty, and Elpis wasn't jealous of the position. Still, the senshi sat, waiting when a soldier returned, several others carrying a coffin -- and Elpis rose. not needing the word, now, but listening only partially. The king was dead.

The Royal Line was dead. The Generalissimo was now the acting leader of their world.

The days were a blur, in a sense -- funeral arrangements made, and so many meetings. Discussion of a successor was paramount -- the world needed a smooth transition, lest fear seize and enemy prey nd Elpis was mostly quiet, doing what she could. She let others work, others thing, and finally, when she was just a little less numb, a little less shaken, she found herself completing the coronation oath. It was a formality, but the Generalissimo was well educated, trained -- the senshi made sense to begin a new royal lineage, and Elpis soon found her days different. She lead not only her world's armies, but her world. There were politics to discuss, and incursions to circumvent. Elpis had so much to do, and it felt... Alien. Different.

It was.....

Elpis hjerked out of it in the empty great hall, looking about. Frescoes of a royal court dotted the walls, ending with one of a senshi -- her past life? - as a guide, and Elpis swallowed, sighing as she shook her head.

Had she let people down before? Or...

No.

She had to be better. Stronger. She couldn't afford to fail. Had she failed before? Elpis didn't know, and one hand trembled. Her mind was quiet, the memory calm. Nothing stirred, and she glancd to a spot icy with star shaped fruit grew quietly, sighing to herself. In some ways, it was pretty here without people. Plants grew, and it was quiet, and she wondered if Caedus had similar, before everything. Caedus. She hadn't een the mystery figure in a while, and she idly wondered if he was alright. Perhaps she ought pay him a visit sometime, and check on him. She could do that. She would do that, and she rose with a faint smile, moving to leave. Albert needed to know what happened after all, and the button that brought her to Elpis was pressed, the senshi oddly soothed by a memory this time... And she disappeared to Earth once more.