On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Tempest- wrote:

	You've already written this thing out, haven't you?  Unless you

No.  What you have seen is all that exists.

decided to write two chapters before releasing the first one to the
FFML...

I had lots of time to write over Thanksgiving.

Don't know why anyone would want to do that though ... *sweatdrop*

      "In the hands of a mortal."  Tomoe said quietly.  "There are 
things in heaven and earth not dreamt of in your philosophy, 
Henry."  He laughed.  "I've always wanted to say that."

	The original quote is "There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."  Applying a bit of
creative manipulation, there should be, at least, a "more" between
'are' and 'things'.  Feel free to ignore me though, I'm sure you
already thought of that when you wrote it.

No, actually, I forgot :)
 

       Arcadia woke up with something warm and heavy on her 
chest.  A quick peek revealed it wasn't Marcus, much as part of her 
hoped it might be, but was instead a little blue-haired munchkin in 
green pajamas.  

	"Hoped it might be"? She sure took quick to that kid if she's hoping
he's in bed with her.. :)

She has more of a thing for him than she normally admits :)  There's a
time lapse between her arrival in the Crystal Tokyo of her time and her
departure of a few months.
 

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Nemesis,  Royal Palace, DY (Demand Year 305)

	I see our normal "translations" of the current year are absent here.
Gee, what could that mean?

Prince Demand doesn't allow other calendars :)
Mostly it's because the time differentials make translation difficult :)

       Prince Demand frowned.  "Are you sure, Wiseman?  We can't 
afford another fiasco like what happened to King Hari at Belkin 
Ridge."  He shuddered at the thought.  Serenity's army had been so 
huge.  Albernia had been the greatest power on Earth, not counting 
the Winter Queen's vast hordes, when Serenity came.  King Hari had 
thought he could easily take down Serenity once she was exhausted 
from battling the Winter Queen.  Hari had been an ignorant fool, fat 
with unearned pride.  He had ignored the prophecy at his cost.  
Serenity had swatted down Belkin without even noticing.  She 
hadn't even bothered to kill a single one of his warriors.  She

hadn't 

bothered to stop their flight to Nemesis.  They were only the first

of 

those who had fled.  

	So, lets review.  There's a Wiseman who a badguy with Demand and such,
a Dr. Wise who's with Tomoe and Hotaru, and a Dr. Weissman who's about
to go the way of the Dodo.  Interesting, or no? Or am I being a
"wise"-ass?

Hehe.  I scatter clues like rain...or something :)
  

       "Nine tenths of what would be done by servants or janitorial 
staff does itself, or can easily be done by a skilled mage in

seconds.  

My powers are feeble, but even I can clean up most messes, at least 
inside the Palace."  Everything was spotless, Arcadia realized. Even 
her mother, the biggest neat freak in the history of mankind, 
couldn't have found anything to critique.  "Food cooks itself, 
bathrooms clean themselves, laundry does itself.  We do hire 
caterers for special events, though.  Humans do a better job than 
magic on food.  We also keep gardeners, because people change 
their minds too often to leave it to automatic magic, and the 
hospitality staff escorts visitors around and makes sure their needs 
are met."  

	Closer to Utopia than most Fic's I've read.  At least you continuously
remind the reader that there is a price for everything though, kinda
gives it that eerie feel that they must be giving up something, but
what?

As I try to make clear later, they already paid the price.  In advance,
through nine hundred years of misery.  

There's also another price, which will become more apparent later too. :)
  

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Earth,  Angelica's Needle, 2365 AD (Serenity Year -627, 3116 Years 
after the founding of Rome, Juraiian Year 22529, Federal Year -
1619)

	I'm wondering, what significance does the Founding of Rome have to do
with this?  Surely you picked these methods of telling time for a

That would be telling :)

reason, why Rome? And what's 'Federal Year'?

Federal Year is the calendar of the Federal League, which Arcadia is
native to.  The Federal League arose as the Juraiian and Solar Empires
began to crumble, coalescing around the last of the colonies to be founded
by the Solar Empire, Finis Astra.  This colony was established through the
efforts of Dr. Gregory Stingray, Prime Minister to Serenity X, his wife,
Dr. Amy Stingray, and several others in the year 994 SY.  





John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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     The Moon Hill Gymnasium was crowded with students, most from Moon 
Hill, but some from other schools.  The special committee to pick the 
theme for the first spring dance had argued for weeks over a theme.  Many 
ideas had been suggested:  Love--American Style, Spring Sock Hop, Can't 
Stop Doing the Monkey, The Black Plague, Enchantment under the Sea, Zinc 
Oxide and You, Space Viking Vixen Women from Venus, The Progressive Era, 
and The First Spring Dance.  After extensive argument, the sole remaining 
conscious committee member had selected the theme "Our Gym Covered in 
Crepe Paper."  
--Sailor Moon Z #7