Lily & Lorcan.
You can't go; don't you remember what you promised me?
Listen to me.
Don't do this to me. For Merlin's sake, I swear you and me are meant to be. And don't dare say you haven't felt it, too. I know it; I can see it.
Even now I can. I know that look—it's love.
The words would go on repeat in his head, bouncing and making all sense in the world—but impossible to utter and doomed to never be pronounced.
So she left him, unaware of what she had done to him. She left him and smiled.