Reflections:  Aino Minako

    We are her sisters, all of us,
    sisters in blood and in arms.
    But there is a shadow on her heart
    that none of them can see.

    How could they?  Only she and I,
    out of all of us, have known what it is
    to face the enemy alone,
    without friends, without comfort,
    knowing that you live or die
    on your own.
    Poor girl, that is what she fears,
    what I see when I look into her heart:
    that someday we will die and leave her
    standing alone.

    Oh, my sister... we have died for you.
    Can't you believe that we will also
    live for you?