It's a question she never expected to be asked. It's a question she'd never been told the answer to. It had simply been there, once she transformed that first time, so long ago. The words had come to her mind, and suddenly she called them out, and there were bubbles and fog where there'd been nothing.

The words.

"The words should come to you," she tells Sailor Reach. They weren't necessary, of course; Venus had used her powers without them, when her attacks would have ruined her disguise as the fake princess. Mercury herself rarely uses them anymore.

But they're a start.