"Without the sailor crystal," Mercury refutes the hopeful words, "there won't be a 'next time'."

Strange, that a part of her feels at peace with that. She's tired from carrying too heavy of a burden for too long. Surely she's earned this respite, this ending instead of endlessly reliving a tragic fate.

In the end, for all her talk about power, and for all her chasing it, she was still too weak.