LILY
She’s a bit hungover from the first real vacation she’s had in years, and it hasn’t completely hit her yet that she might be coming back to a drastically different Hollowed Ground. Her mind is on what to do with the Torchline house - does she want to move there permanently? Does she owe it to the Grounds to stay? Luggage in hand, she comes back through the portal and is on her way back to her house here, which surely needs a good clean-out after more than a week away, when a commotion draws her attention.
And there’s a moment when she could turn away and go, ignore it, escape - but she doesn’t. Instead, Lily approaches and someone whispers to her that it’s an Ascended Head, causing her eyes to go wide, going even more pale than before. She doesn’t want to see it, doesn’t want to know who it is, but she can’t block out the murmurs about the note and the Old Gods, so she quickly turns away and heads back to her house with a sick sort of feeling in her stomach.
don't know if you love me or you want me dead
the way you're looking through my eyes
Don't know if I'm gonna make it out alive
