As Lilly spent more and more time in this reformed world, she noticed odd new behaviors from the simple humans about her. It would seem that they had noticed the lack of the feared demons and worshiped gods.
After a few years, as the old villagers began to pass away, and the young ones began to take hold of the world, more and more temples began sprouting up, and more celebrations and worship spread through the masses.
Even as Lilly searched persistently across the land for any form of psychic or wise man, she became more and more curious why the humans continued to worship the very creatures that had ruled them and terrorized them for so many generations.
She would often rest outside of the towns, in mossy hollows, and listen to all the goings on and all the plays the humans would entertain themselves with. And as she listened, she often was reminded of old lost stories that some one had told her. She'd get bits of deja vou listening to the great anger of the creatures, and the beautiful women in the plays.
As more and more time past, Lilly learned of new abilities and techniques she had never known of, including an uncanny sense of personality. She would often sit in a restaurant and allow peoples energies to flow about her, telling her their stories, their pains, and their intentions.
It was bizarre to Lilly, knowing every thing about every one around her, but nothing about the people who had meant any thing to her. It felt like a hollow knowledge though. The things she learned from her powers only used as a tool to manipulate them, and get what she wanted out of them, weather it be information or food and housing for the night.
The time began to blur together, the nights and days meaning nothing to her ageless body. It wasn't long before new generations replaced the old, and had children of their own. Even with the new generations, Lilly found no traces of any psychics powerful enough to uncloud her memories.
She had stayed away from the villages as they became towns, and then after that cities. The buildings began to get taller, and the humans began to become smarter, and more inquisitive of the world, forgetting the old stories and plays.
Lilly had learned through her many years though, that the best way to find some one, was to stop searching, and listen. Listen to the people around her, and they would tell her every thing. It wasn't for another two generations that any thing of interest began happening.
Lilly was startled awake one day, the loud sounds of knuckles making contact with bone curling her lips slightly. She sat up from the shade of the tree, looking out to her right. She crept over to a bramble of bushes, sensing through them, not needing to see over them.
Lilly could sense a large crowd of youths, all faced in the direction of two powerful fighters dueling one another. Lilly followed their movements with a giddiness she hadn't known for many years.
A thrill ran through her, following these two fighters. Since the rise of the buildings, the strength of humans had lowered dramatically. It was thrilling to see these two strangely powerful beings duke it out, seemingly evenly matched. They were strong enough to rival many of the old time demons she had fought with so long ago.
Lilly stood from within the bushes, in her human guise as she had done for decades. She was wrapped in a loose silk robe, green as the shrubbery she stood behind. She heard the group stop, and look to her, the fighters on guard.
Lilly could almost taste the anticipation within the whole group, and couldn't help the smirk that crossed her perfect lips. As she stepped out of the bushes, she could feel the two humans energy flare up aggressively. Almost as soon as she had sensed them, she sensed them fly towards her.
She blocked them flawlessly, blocking each of them with one arm and pushing them back into the crowd of youngsters. She held up her hand, halting them with a great grin.
"Wait, I haven't come here to harm your students or to challenge your lives," she could tell the two did not believe in her words, and so she held up her hands in surrender, "I only wonder if you have the ability to aid me."
Later that evening, Lilly sat with the strongest of the pair, the short one sipping tea solemnly. She knew the taller of the two watched her intently, but she could only sit with her head straight ahead, her eyes covered by the ancient felt she had long ago stitched together.
"If you are here to have your eyes healed, I doubt we will be able to help you. It has been far too long for me to fix the damage to them," Lilly smiled and nodded to her, in what she hoped was politeness.
"Thank you, but I have long gained accustom to the lack of sight. It no longer bothers me," she lifted the corner of her blindfold to open one clouded over eye and wiggle it about blindly.
"That, though, is not why I have shown myself to you. I have a much less tangible issue to deal with," as Lilly explained to the two about her last five hundred or so years that she had spent searching for ways to free her sealed in memories.
The tall man stood, leaving the table, "I have no interest in your mindless problems." He left the room, returning to the group that they trained together. The woman sipped her tea silently, and Lilly waited patiently for her to respond.
"How did you escape demon world?" Lilly pursed her lips tightly, shaking her head. The woman scoffed at her, "Moron. I can't help you now. I don't have the technique know how to break mental barriers, and you don't even know what's happened to the world."
Lilly made a face at her, "I don't see the relevance of the world compared to my own memories, but I accept that you don't have knowledge. Is there any one you know that could help me?"
The young woman sat before her. The sound of her supped tea filled Lilly with bother, and the lack of response beginning to agitate her. Lilly took a deep breath. It didn't matter how long you lived, humans were always so bothersome to interact with.
"Nope, there's no one I know of who can tear down mental barriers." The woman seemed to shrug, holding some thing back from her, "But?"
Lilly tried to urge her on, to pry that secret out of the woman. She was stubborn, as all humans seemed to be, and the woman sat there quietly sipping her tea again. Lilly stood slowly, seemingly she would get no more from the woman. She bowed low, and stepped around the table, "Hold on you impatient demon." Lilly turned back to the woman in surprise.
She heard the older woman stand, and walk over to her, "Moron. You should get to know the time you're living in. You stick out like a sore thumb," Lilly tilted her head curiously, "Go see my friend. He won't be able to help your memories, but perhaps he can help you get in touch with the times at least. You look like you haven't changed for 500 years."
She heard the joke in the woman's voice and chuckled, getting the directions and thanking her for her help.
"Hey kid," Lilly smiled and the slight clench of teeth from the woman, "I'll be back to see you, when you have the know how. That's a promise." Lilly turned again to leave, "Fair well, beautiful spirit. What ever your name may be."
As Lilly left, she heard a name echo in her mind, 'Genkai'. She smiled to herself, "Then farewell, Great Genkai. I shall see you before your life's end."
Lilly left her there, gliding through the many forest and mountains to this mystery 'friend'. She felt a thrill run through her. She was finally making some form of progress, after so many years. She laughed, pure joy running through her at the thought of being free from her trapped mind.