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The next day, Moon buried herself under the sheets and refused to talk to anyone so that she could properly wallow in her misery. She had said things were never over until she won, and they weren't. But she had still failed, and now she had to set things up again. It was quite tiring even if she didn't want to admit it. 

Moon glanced up as there was a knock at the door, brushing aside the blankets to look out. She waved a hand, and a water spirit materialized out of the floorboards, stretching long, blue-translucent hands to open the doorknob. 

Standing in the doorway was Phae, formerly known as Pluto. 

Yep. The planets had never taken very kindly to Phae - the smallest planet by far, and thus the weakest. It was only natural that he was pushed around. So he had left the planets behind. Poor thing - he hadn't been able to escape then fully, even at that, becoming a messenger for them instead, and even easier to push around. Still, now he had Ae - and as much as Moon hated to admit it because of her grudge, Ae was a good partner for someone like Phae. Moon didn't usually see Phae - but he seemed a bit different from the weakling she remembered - with gray hair that was streaked with red and a burning gaze that came from bright orange irises. Quite different, indeed, But still he was silently glaring at her from the door as he always had to all the planets that had shunned him, again and again. This time, he was stronger, somehow. 

Yep. This was still Pluto. 

Moon slightly rustled the sheets around into a sitting position. "I heard you were sick for a while, Phae. Feeling a bit better now?" Pluto frowned and looked behind him, and then back at Moon. 

"Please don't act as if you care about me," Phae said coldly, taking an envelope out of his pocket and walking through the center of the room, stepping on all sorts of valuable trinkets and gems, and throwing the envelope on Moon's bed, right next to her. 

Then he promptly turned and left. 

Now Moon felt a bit regretful about the past. Even with Mercury, who was pushed around by the sun worse than Pluto had been, she had never taken any action, simply because it wasn't her place. 

But maybe if she had, if she had said a few words of comfort, would Proxima still have been alive, and all the planets free? Would Terra have still remembered everything and Moon living her peaceful life? Would she have been free from this barrier? 

Probably, yeah. 

Moon watched Phae leave silently and then turned her eyes to the envelope. 

Inside it was a note in Ae's handwriting that read, 

"I know how to return Terra's memory. 9 pm. Tomorrow. Center of the woods. Come alone."