Golden Recollections

[ii]
Dia: Of course. Since Her Present Majesty was my reassuring friend.
Luva: Aren't these candidates like you two are?
Dia: I'd like it to be so, but....
Luva: It's alright. You're a worrier.
Dia: But....
Luva: It's alright. You must know. Maybe you don't notice. It's not hard. Only, you should
remember. When you were a Queen Candidate....
Dia: When I was a Queen Candidate....
Luva: Yes, it's simple. Close your eyes and it surfaces as if it were yesterday. Look...

[1]
The beginning of the Queen Examination.

Like a day long past might be reappearing, the time the two girls appeared...

The outlines of the past surface from memory.