She had made it home.
It was enough.
The words echoed with her every breath.
Sharpened her vision, steeled her spine. A
crown of flame appeared atop her head,
swirling and unbreakable.
She could never win against both of them.
But she wouldn’t make it easy. Would take
one of them down with her, if she could. Or at
least slow them enough for the others to enact
their plan, to find a way to either halt or
defeat them. Even if either option seemed
unlikely. Hopeless.
But that was why she remained here.
To give them that slim shred of hope. That
will to keep fighting.
At the end of this, if that was all she was
able to do against Erawan and Maeve, she
could go to the Afterworld with her chin held
high. She would not be ashamed to see those
lily
(lily)
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