Laughing Buffy and Lily walked into the magic shop after a few hours spent shopping they walked in to notice the Scooby's had been assembled and that they were all researching. Buffy dropped her shopping bag next to the table and looked to Giles for an explanation.
"I discovered something of utmost importance. Lily is indeed from Middle Earth, a very important figure. She is rumored to be very powerful in her homeland. The daughter of power and grace. She is the daughter of Arathorn a king of men and Alatariel a prominent elf maiden." Giles said taking a breath.
"If she's so important why did they get rid of her like they did?" Anya said bluntly until Xander covered her mouth with his hand and smiled.
"Well not to be rude but why was she sent here then if she is such a powerful important girl?" Buffy asked. Lily looked to Giles for more to his explanation.
"The two children were important." Giles was interrupted by Willow.
"Two? I thought we just had Lily. Where did two come from?" Giles smiled.
"Her brother Aragorn and herself. Aragorn is heir to the throne of men, which has not been claimed in a long time. Having an elf for a parent and a man, he has been blessed with long life, while Lily took after her mother and is an elf, immortal and fairest of all creatures in Middle Earth." Giles took a breath and picked up another text. "The children were to be taken to Rivendell for safe keeping only they were ambushed along the way and Lily was taken supposedly for evil. They knew there was nowhere in Middle Earth where she could be kept hidden from the elves so the enemy sent her to earth, but did not factor in the lady Galadriel interfering and sending her to a powerful family." Buffy smiled a sad smile it was repetitious.
"So our memories of Lily are like Dawnie?" Xander asked sadly.
"No, Lily has been with you Buffy for twenty-one years. However in her home she would be about eighty one." Giles concluded.
"So what does this mean? Other than I am powerful and am from Middle Earth, an immortal elf? Am I to stay here or what?" Lily asked confused placing her head down on the table.
No one had the chance to answer. For the fifth time Sunnydale shook with tremors so deep they wondered if the hellmouth was opening again. Lily was just ducking under the table when a particularly hard tremor shook causing her to lose her balance and fall backwards, she was expecting to hit the hard ground when all she heard was her friends screams and then she felt the soft grass beneath her, before she passed out.