LILY
oh, cover your crystal eyes
and let your colors bleed and blend with mine
and let your colors bleed and blend with mine
It’s a sad beginning with a not-so-sad ending; Lily shrugs easily, hoping to dispel any sadness about her life that might linger in the air. “It only sounds sad. I was fed, clothed, and taught to read and write. Wouldn’t have gotten that otherwise. Might’ve died early or something, starved… I don’t know. Life in my world was similar to Caido’s in that it wasn’t easy. We didn’t have things like landsharks or LongNight monsters but… there were many illnesses and things like that.” Waggling her fingertips a little, she smiles wide. “No magical healing.”
The miracles here… they outweigh the bad things, she thinks. “And I have all the freedom I never had before, so really, it’s a good thing!” Because if she’d never been sold, she doubts she would have made it here, and then she wouldn’t have found Melita, and then -
Laughing, her head tilts back at the suggestion that nothing is stopping them, because her
{Fin}
