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Abbreviated
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

She had always hated abbreviations. Words had been invented in their full form, had they not, so what was the point of chopping them to pieces in order to achieve pointless simplicity? She supposed that was a little like what her life had become, though the abbreviations came not for simplicity but to cause unneeded complexities in their lives.

In the end she had found out that what she had believed herself to be was nothing more than an abbreviation of her ture self. She had only known one part of herself, believing it to be the whole when it was only a small part of many. It was confusing and she had never wanted such a thing, never even thought of such a thing. After all if you never even truly knew yourself then how were you supposed to know anything at all about anything else?

She had never wanted to fight, much less things she never would have believed existed. Her own life contradicted everything she believed in: even as a child she had never believed in magic, yet here she was, as she was, living an abbreviated life made up of distorted lies.

In the end they were senshi; that was the only truth. They were human no longer, simply immortal dolls that had to suffer endless, abbreviated lives... because that was all they had, that was all they were.