09-22-2021, 09:26 PM
WE ARE ALL JUST FRAGILE THINGS /
SOFT AND SMALL /
BUT ALL THE BROKEN CAN FIND /
HOPE IN THE MOST UNEXPECTED PLACES /
It had been an odd thing, to see herself as she had been.
She had caught glimpses of her past through someone else's eyes and it was a startling revelation to Lilliana. The changes of her decade in Beqanna had always seemed so subtle to her, and while she knew that there were some parts of herself that she would never get back, Lilli hadn't thought herself so different from the girl who had come from Beyond.
But there had been her past, staring right at her from a matching pair of blue eyes, and it had shown her exactly how much she had changed.
Did Leilan see it?
Was she altered in some way after dying?
Lilliana teases him like nothing is different between them. And it isn't. She's glad to see him. If she hadn't been so focused on finding Neverwhere, he would have been one of the first ones that she would have sought out after returning to life. She glances up at him and then her eyes widen as the air beside him shifts into something made of shadow and ice. The former Taigan is mystified by the Magic - as she almost always is by others - but it starts to take the shape of something familiar and as it takes form, Lilliana recognizes herself.
"You really were looking for me," she realizes and looks away from the vanishing haze. The shock of that barely has time to settle. It had been a joke - the usual banter that they had always shared - but this doesn't feel like their usual teasing or even cordial companionship that came in the years after. Lilliana has been missing from her home for so many years, and not once, had anybody ever come looking for her.
She had always been the one left behind.
Her copper brow furrows in disbelief.
"Even after I was dead, you kept looking?"
fragile things (reprise) - megan hilty
image credit to footybandit
but it's all in the past, love
it's all gone with the wind