Lily Luna felt as if she was soaring, in fact she felt as if she might be a little tipsy. It was an odd feeling since somewhere in her mind she knew she was still in a much too young body for that.

The magic swirling around her was intoxicating though, it seemed to seep into her pores in a way she hadn't expected. She had read before about theories of the Veil and she knew of fairy laws and rules, and yet as she felt them all dance around her they didn't feel foreign to her. They felt...familiar. Familiar in the way that The Portals bookshop felt familiar. It was odd.

Something tickled her subconscious, like a forgotten melody that tried to come back through the tapping of fingers against a surface or toes against the ground. Her mother's voice from before she was Lily Evans of the now drifted into her ears, "Things are not always as they seem, my dear ones." Her father's voice picked up after her, "One day you'll remember, just know our love…" Her mind went fuzzy again as the singing of the fairies around her picked up again and she was swept up into the flurry.

As she danced, she tried to remember what it was she was trying to remember.

A gasp from behind her was the only warning that was given as more fairies came from the portal, these were more edges that rounded balls of light. Dark, sharp, dangerous and yet no less beautiful.

"Lil...Blossom be careful." Lily barely turned her head toward the words spoken before one dark one caught her eye.

Something about the fae standing before her more familiar than the rest.

The music seemed muffled and the lights seemed to dance on the edges of her vision as she walked toward him.

"Who…" He put a finger to his lips, his grin sharp. His features still hidden within shadow.

"Who are you?" His whisper was soft and dark. The world seemed to change around her, she blinked and it was just them. It had always just been them, hadn't it? In a wide field, she had been so lonely before he had come.

She tilted her head to the side, "They call me Light."

"Hello, Light." His whisper was still so gentle, and then she blinked. The field was gone. They were back in the woods, the glow of the fairies and full moon the only thing lightening their features.

He was already walking away though, he wasn't going back into the ring.

Lily shook her head and chased after the figure even as she heard voices calling her nickname for the night after her.

"Are you...Dark?" It was there just in the boundaries of her mind.

Dark. Light.

The shadow stopped and turned his head, his features not visible in the darkness.

"One day, you will remember."

Before she blinked, he vanished once more. Her mind's fog clearing only made her all the more confused as the fae's voice registered for it was familiar to her in more than a few ways. Lily sank to her knees.

Lily allowed herself to be dragged by the hand back to the Snapes' house, her mind a jumble of thoughts, none of them made sense.

She barely registered as she sat upon a chair before Severus's mother was kneeling before her chair.

"What did I say about going with a fae?"

Lily shook her head, trying to clear her mind of the fog.

Her eyes wide as she stared at Eileen then glanced up over where Severus stood looking frightened in the doorway.

"Who am I?"

Eileen sucked in a deep breath, "What have you done child?"

Lily shook her head again and put her head on her hands. Her mind still foggy from the magic of the night, but as her thoughts cleared her mind only became more confused.

"I'm Lily Evans." Lily spoke the first sentence with semi-confidence, but the next came in a lower voice, "Here and then, but…" she looked into the adult's eyes that sat before her and realized how truly out of depth she was. A choked sob escaped from her, "I'm so lost. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. Am I supposed to change certain things? Can I simply live as I am? But if I could then why…"

Calloused hands with a gentle touch pried Lily's fingers from her hair and face, "Take deep breaths child."

Lily followed Severus's mother's example and took deep breaths, soon her pulse slowed.

"Now slowly child…"

"I am…" Lily took a deep breath, her eyes shifting between the other child and the mother in the room worriedly. "I am not what I seem."

Severus's mother let out a wry chuckle, "Yes, I expected as much."

"I feel as if...magic has made me be more than one person. I don't know who I need to be, or who I actually am." Lily looked down, "I know things. I should be afraid of certain people but instead my magic feels safe with them. Then tonight, tonight I recognized him but I didn't...I don't know."

Lily's eyes widened as she was wrapped in the thin arms of the usually stern faced woman who had been kneeling before her, only to see Severus's surprised gaze across the way as well.

"Live child one day at a time."

Eileen's words would become a mantra in future years to come.