Lily Luna/OC
Theme: AU
"Don't shed a tear for me - I stand alone" - Blackmore's Night, "Village Lanterne"
*note: I used the full song for inspiration more than this individual line...
They stood brave against the world, and the world screamed back.
The world was always screaming, but that's not the point. The point... The point is that my little sister was a warrior in more ways than you thought.
People say I'm the image of my father, and they think I'm exactly like him inside, but they're wrong, and they're wrong about Lily. She was more like him than any of us three. We weren't much like him though anyway.
She took her role as a symbol of hope in our dark century and used it to make herself a guardian, she was a snake with a griffin's wings, and that made her the true leader of us.
But this isn't about that.
It's about how she loved. She loved Andy like a fire in summer, and she followed that path of destiny, those two girls in the middle of war and leaders both.
Funny, how people on opposite sides seem to get drawn to each other. Isn't it? I think so, in a painful way, like how when you're hurt inside so you smile so bright we'd think it was eternal summer in your mind.
I still see it, her standing alone in that battle, wand pointed, and the way she looked back at me. 'Don't cry,' she mouthed, or yelled, or called. There's no sound to this memory, or it's so loud I don't remember. 'I'm going home.'
One calculated death, that she forgot to tell us about. Hers.
And I still remember the way the Dark's Lieutenant charged after her own soldier.
And I still remember the death.
I wish I could forget the scream.
So I'll begin like the healer said, from the beginning...