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Beauty of the Water, Tears of the Flame
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

Prologue

My name is Rei Hino. I'm sixteen years old and in tenth grade at High School. I sound pretty normal so far, right? Well, if you'd assumed that then you're completely wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. My life is anything but normal, and not in a good way either.

My mother died when I was six years old, and my father abandoned me then: I've barely seen him since. Not that I care anyway; he's nothing more than a callous bastard who cares for nothing but his work. I don't trust men because of him, because of the way he deserted mother and I.

However, just because my father made me untrusting of men, it does not mean that I have never loved. No, no, quite the opposite: I did love. I loved her very much, my Minako, my koi, my tenshi. Of course I still do love her, and she still loves me… but she is gone now; she is dead, just as I should be.

That is where my story begins, with her death and with what led us both to try and die. We tried to die because we wished never to be parted; alas it all went horribly wrong, and we were parted for eternity, or so it would seem. But come now, listen as I tell my tale…