Her name is — not Usagi. A clumsy but big-hearted 14-year-old from Vake district, who sleeps through Georgian language class and dreams of churchkhela and pomegranates. One evening, chasing a stray cat near the Metekhi cliff, she stumbles upon a wounded ლუნასი (Lunasi) — a silver-winged falcon, the Georgian incarnation of Luna.
Lunasi speaks in a low, poetic rasp: "მთვარის კრისტალი აგირჩია შენ. დროა იბრძოლო სიბნელის წინააღმდეგ." ("The Moon Crystal has chosen you. Time to fight the darkness.") Sailor Moon Qartulad
And when Tamari cries for her lost friends? She doesn’t just weep. She recites lines from Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin , and the moon itself cracks open to reveal a silver Narikala fortress from which the final power descends: — the Moon of the Soul. Her name is — not Usagi
