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Supernatural people have always had their place in society, hidden in plain sight or locked away for their own protection. New Orleans, a haven for the strange and mysterious and a magnet for the supernatural.
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Post by Lilith Grace Taylor on Nov 27, 2018 3:46:41 GMT
With the holidays largely over until Christmas, it was safe to say that Monroeville had settled into a bit of a lull - or as much of one as it could be considering the general mischief of some the hospital’s most infamous residents. Lilith had no doubt that Benji was harassing Palmer to the fullest extent of his abilities and, if she had a good enough read on Mason, he was doing the same with the rest of the orderlies. How had she ended up with such a duo of hell raisers? It was beyond her, but the reanimator found that she didn’t particularly mind it. The boys, herself, and her closest friend, Lucy, had started to eat lunch together on the regular now. They were the table of oddballs, of people that didn’t quite fit in. People almost seemed to avoid them more now that they had Mason and Benji joining them. Again, it suited Lili just fine. She didn’t need to be around people who were pretending to be something other than what they actually were. It was the reason that, while she was friendly, she wasn’t best friends with everyone that crossed her path. She would speak to just about everyone, but getting close to them was different.
Lilith was up early that day, rising with the sun after a night of actually sleeping. It was almost a foreign feeling to her at this point, but that was largely because she was up contemplating how she could possibly use her ability in a place like this. With the blockers all over, it wasn’t feasible, but that didn’t stop her from wondering and plotting. Lili knew that her ability was considered taboo. People who played with dead things had something weird about them, but she didn’t think it was all that weird. Everyone wanted companionship and that was what her creations had offered to her long before she ever had friends. People thought she was weird even before she had entered Monroeville. She was the girl with brightly colored hair and ocean eyes that seemed haunted by something. Frankly, Lili felt like she was less haunted and more simply wise to the things around her. She had a grasp on the cycle of life and death. What she did wasn’t considered actually bringing someone back from life and resurrecting them, but she didn’t think that her creations minded. Who wanted to be dead, anyway?
After breakfast that morning, she had found herself outside, walking around the grass before she had stumbled upon a bird that had lost its life. She didn’t know how it had happened, but that was something that broke her heart. Animals were full of innocence and they didn’t deserve to die, not ever. Scooping the tiny creature into her hands, she hummed softly and walked back to the hospital - where she was stopped by the orderlies. The bird, which had chirped back to life briefly, was suddenly gone again. Her ability had been blocked by their presence and, as they attempted to apprehend her to take her in for using her powers, she bolted. I had been a knee-jerk reaction, one that she found herself regretting as she scampered up a flight of stairs. Though she was no athlete, Lili was fast enough and it was her hope that they would leave her alone if she managed to get far enough away from them. It was one little bird who couldn’t even do anything. A part of her felt like crying, but she knew that was only going to make her trip because she wouldn’t be able to see where she was going.
As she reached the second floor, she turned a corner sharply and ran into someone. Without stopping to see who it was or if they were hurt, Lili found herself reaching out to grab the person’s hand and yank them into the library with her, ducking back behind a stack of books and crouching down as low as they could possibly get. Breathing heavily, she braced one hand against the floor, the other still wound with the person she had stumbled into. Realizing that she could have made a mistake and run into another orderly, her gaze jerked towards the person and she felt her already unsteady breath hitch in her throat. Wow. Not an orderly, but the girl looked familiar. ”Please, just stay quiet. They’ll throw me in solitary if they find me right now,” the pink-haired girl pleaded.
Post by Sophie de la Cruz on Dec 4, 2018 4:15:47 GMT
Sophie had always hated mornings. Not only did it interrupt whatever dream she had been in the middle of enjoying, but it meant pulling herself out of the uncomfortable bed that she had been assigned, and forced to interact with a bunch of people who thought she was crazy and dangerous. She was neither. The fact that nobody believed the truth about what had happened to her was due more to the fact that darling Nathaniel had paid off a friend to lie for him in order to get out of the accusation that she had levelled at him. His daddy’s money had done the rest, and that was why she was rotting away inside the utilitarian gray walls of Monroeville Hospital. All for defending herself. Now, she was stuck with that reminder every time she woke up and took in the sight of her sterile-looking room that was still devoid of any personal touches to speak of. Once upon a time, she had believed that would make it better, that it would make staying there a little more tolerable, but if there was one thing that she had learned since then, it was that it just made this place feel more like home. That was the last thing she wanted. She didn’t belong here, but nobody that she said that to seemed to actually believe her.
And people wondered why she had a temper and mouth on her.
She had learned from the moment that she had been unceremoniously tossed into this very room that life wasn’t fair, and that she might as well get used to it. So she did, going about her routine with the same bored expression on her face… and livening things up where and when she could, much to the chagrin of the orderlies and the psychologists. Pair boredom with medication that made you feel like you were a literal live wire and you had some… interesting results.
Today, however, she was feeling a little lethargic. One of the many side effects of the medication that she had been given meant that sometimes sleeping didn’t really happen the way that it was supposed to. Which meant that sometimes, she was waking up every few hours or woke up the next morning feeling like she hadn’t slept at all. The joys of living in a god damn insane asylum. Breakfast had been the usual, tasteless mush that she could hardly stomach but she supposed she had to at least try to force down. Afterwards, well, Sophie had opted to wander around, as if she hadn’t seen every single intimate detail of this hospital so many times over that it made her feel sick. She hated days like this, when she felt like she couldn’t think because her mind was so muddled by her lack of sleep. It made her reckless, which meant that she usually ended up squaring off with an orderly which never ended well for her. However, she was ripped out of her muddled thoughts as someone collided abruptly with her, sending her stumbling back. Before she even had a moment to react, the person in question grabbed her hand and pulled her along the hallway, before pulling them both into the door of the library. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Sophie knew that mindlessly trailing after someone who had run into her in a hospital that was chock full of dangerous people was probably not the safest course of action, but she also knew that she could hold her own if need be.
Ducking into the first row, Sophie got her first look at the person who had pulled her into the library, and for a moment, she could do nothing but stare at her. It wasn’t the time, and she knew it, but she couldn’t help but think that the girl in front of her was gorgeous. Between the pink hair, the enchanting and slightly unsettling eyes, and the perfect lips… she was spellbound, even though she could feel the palpable distress that was practically radiating from her. Her words tumbled out in a rush, and Sophie nodded. “Wait here, stay quiet, and don’t worry,” she squeezed the other girl’s hand, shooting her a comforting smile, “I’m not getting you thrown in solitary.” Pulling away from the girl, she made her way to the end of the row, completely on the other side of where Lily was currently crouching, running her fingers along the spines on the other side of the shelf. When the door opened, as she expected it would, Sophie glanced up and crossed her arms, leaning against the shelf.
“Did you see someone come through here? Tall-ish, pink hair.” Sophie cocked her head to the side, pretending to consider it for a moment.
“Sounds hot, I feel like I’d remember her. But I haven’t seen anybody like that, no.” She maintained that picture-perfect innocent look, and though the orderly stared her down, she gave him no quarter. She was not about to be the reason that the pink-haired princess on the other side of this row of books was going to sit in the shithole that was solitary.
“If I find out you’re lying, I’ll toss you in solitary myself.” Sophie arched her eyebrows.
“Well then I guess it’s a good thing I’m not lying, isn’t it?” With a huff, the orderly in question turned and marched out the door, and Sophie released the breath that she hadn’t even realized she had been holding. One beat. Two. Three. She counted all the way to five to make sure that the orderly was down the hallway before making her way back towards the pink-haired girl that had dragged her into this. Literally. When she got close enough, she sat down next to her, maybe a touch closer than she needed to be, but she didn’t want anybody to hear them through the door. At least, that’s what she was telling herself. “So we should probably hang out in here for a while so that they don’t catch you.” She stated it in such a matter of fact way, but her next statement sounded slightly softer. “Wanna talk about why they were chasing you, princess? Or… maybe tell me your name?”
Post by Lilith Grace Taylor on Dec 15, 2018 3:58:26 GMT
Typically speaking, Lilith was a good patient. She minded her own business and no longer asked the burning questions that always seemed to be on the tip of her tongue. Four years at Monroeville had certainly done a bit of damage to the person that she had been prior to arriving, but she found that it was a little easier to shape herself into someone else who could withstand being in these same four walls on a more regular basis. While she wasn’t someone who had become accustomed to solitary, Lili also wasn’t a complete stranger to it. She had found that it was necessary to build up some kind of tolerance to being trapped in a square room without access to the outside world or even to people for a duration of time that just made her want to curl up and sob herself to sleep. It wouldn’t have been the first time that happened, but she usually didn’t feel so alone when it happened. There was nothing quite like finding yourself alone, nothing but your own voice to keep you company. Even that became grating after a while. Lili was certain that people were watching them while they were in solitary, observing the things that they did and how they reacted. She might not have been able to prove it, but she knew what she felt.
Solitary was the thing that she was trying to avoid that particular day. She didn’t want her friends to ask questions. Lucy, Benji, Mason… They were the people that she had come to care for, people that would have been concerned if she didn’t show up for lunch like they always did. There was no doubt that using her ability when she wasn’t under the direct supervision of one of the hospital employees was going to land her in hot water and though she knew it, she couldn’t always help when it decided to happen. Her heart had broken seeing that little bird and she wanted to make it better. She could have let it live again, could have fixed it, but the blockers had decided to show their stupid faces. Lilith knew she shouldn’t have run, shouldn’t have forced her body up a flight of stairs instead of just turning herself over to them and explaining what had happened. There was even a chance that she might have been able to talk herself out of it if she had just stayed. Now, there was no chance that she was going to be able to get out of this if they caught her. Already she could envision the bruises that would grace her wrists from her attempting to fight them off and explain that she didn’t deserve solitary.
Lili didn’t know how to explain to people that her ability wasn’t weird or creepy. She didn’t know how to make them understand that it wasn’t dangerous, no matter what her file had said. So many times she found herself wanting to scream at them, at everything in the world until someone finally understood. It seemed like she was going to be forever shouting at the skies, begging anyone that would listen to her to give her a chance to prove that she didn’t belong in this hospital. Unfortunately, she knew that there was no chance that she would be able to get out of this place. She was going to die in here; it was a fate that she had somewhat accepted. The friends that she had made along the way made it easier to manage the day to day trials of life. Those friends were the reason that she had booked it up the stairs instead of giving up and turning herself over without a fight. Lili just had to hope that she would be able to walk out of this library without having to worry about them coming for her later on in the day.
Tucked against the bookshelves, frantic eyes looked at the girl that she had unintentionally dragged into this mess with her. Lili couldn’t help the distressed noise that gurgled in her throat as she attempted to pull the other girl back towards her. She was certain that staying quiet was the best option - but oh if she ended up in solitary. Already the pink-haired girl felt her heart hammering against her chest, a combination of the exertion of climbing the stairs so quickly and the anxiety that was settling in that this person she was counting on to help her was going to reveal where she was. There was a wall at the end of the stacks, which meant that she had no other options but to stay there and hope that the beautiful brunette kept her word. A tenseness filled every muscle in her body until Lilith was positive that she was going to cramp up and be forever stuck in this position on the floor. As the door creaked open, the tension only seemed to grow and she lifted a hand to clasp it over her mouth, doing her best to not even breathe as she listened to the interaction between the orderlies and the girl who had promised not to keep her out of solitary.
Suddenly, the orderly seemed to relent, however reluctantly, and turned on heel and left. As the door creaked shut again, Lili exhaled and noticed that she could hear the sound of her pulse hammering within her hears, the sound practically deafening with the force. She didn’t even hear the approaching footsteps until suddenly the girl she had brought into this mess was crouching down before her again. Wild, blue eyes looked at her, almost expecting the orderly to be behind her. ”You… you kept your word,” she said softly, momentarily feeling guilty at the surprise that had wound through her words. ”They… They caught me outside, using my ability. I didn’t mean to, it was just… It was so sad and I wanted to take the pain away, but they ruined it. They always ruin everything.” Tears stung at her eyes and she blinked them back furiously, focusing instead on the face of the girl across from her. ”I’m Lilith… you can call me Lili though,” she said, smiling in spite of the sorrow that she felt over losing her little bird friend.
Post by Sophie de la Cruz on Dec 27, 2018 20:01:49 GMT
Sophie had a particular skill for getting herself in trouble, particularly when it came to people who, for some reason or another, she felt the desire to help. She didn’t know what it was about the pink haired beauty that had inspired her to step in between her and the orderly. Was it the fact that she was gorgeous? Was it the urgency with which she had crashed into her in the hallway just moments ago? Or… was it the look in her wide blue eyes that had reminded Sophie of someone much younger, someone who needed help the same way she had so long ago. Nobody had listened to her then, and she felt like she had some kind of obligation to make sure that someone was there to help the people who needed it. She felt like it was the least that she could do, considering she had been there, she had known what it felt like, and she never wanted anybody to feel that way ever again.
Through slightly narrowed eyes, Sophie watched as the orderly walked out the door and let it slam shut behind him. Only once it was firmly shut and she knew that he wouldn’t be walking back in, she stuck her tongue out at the man, mentally wishing every bad thing that she could bring herself to wish on anybody directly on his head. It wasn’t that she hated every orderly at the hospital, but she certainly hated the ones that went out of their way to make her life and the lives of the patients around her a living hell. He deserved whatever he got, and there was a part of her that hoped that she was there to witness it. After a few moments had passed, she released a breath that she hadn’t even realized that she had been holding. As much as she had wanted to just run to the other girl, she needed to take her time and make sure the thug wasn’t coming back. The last thing that either one of them needed was to get thrown into solitary and permanently separated. Despite the fact that she barely knew this girl, there was something about her that captivated Sophie in a way that she had no interest explaining.
As she knelt down, she looked the girl over again, noting the wide-eyed expression that looked so familiar to her. She had definitely seen this girl around before, and there was something that had grabbed her attention, even then. At the pink-haired girl’s statement, Sophie furrowed her eyebrows, shifting so that she was sitting cross legged in front of the other girl. “Of course I did. I’m not a monster.” She stated the words as easily as breathing, even though she knew for a fact that she was a bit of a monster, at least as far as the orderlies in this hospital were concerned. “Besides, I highly doubt that you did anything to warrant that kind of reaction.” It wasn’t that she thought the other girl looked too innocent for anything, she was sure that she held some abilities that were just as taboo as any that the rest of them had, but these people were supposed to be trained to deal with them. Instead, they mostly terrorized the very people they were supposed to be helping. It was bullshit.
As the girl before her told her what happened, Sophie couldn’t help but feel some secondhand guilt; a broken feeling that she hadn’t anticipated about, well, anybody in this building. And now it had happened, and she didn’t really know how to feel about that. Green eyes searched her new friend’s face, and she reached forward, gently placing her hand over the other girl’s and squeezing softly, trying to reassure her. Whatever might have happened to her out in that yard, she was safe here in the library. She was safe with her. “I’m so sorry, I’m sure it was beautiful.” She offered her the kindest smile that she could, but she didn’t move her hand. There was something comforting about the presence of someone else’s hand in hers, something that made the world around her feel less jagged and sharp, and that? That was something that she was recently learning. Her mind flashed briefly back to Mason, his fingers laced in hers out by that tree and the rock, watching the sunset together. Yeah, there was definitely something comforting about it then, and she hoped that she was giving this girl the same comfort.
“Well, Lili, it’s great to meet you, regardless of the why.” She returned the smile that the girl before her, Lili, wore. “How long have you been here, anyways? You look so familiar… but I don’t remember meeting you.” There was some part of that statement that scared her, as if they had met and she had forgotten, the way that her hours blurred into days, weeks, years, and suddenly she was four years down the line with no real recognition of how much time had passed. “I’m Sophie, by the way.”
Post by Lilith Grace Taylor on Jan 2, 2019 23:28:23 GMT
Lilith had learned long ago that stirring up trouble within the halls of Monroeville was something that was very much frowned upon. It was almost as though they expected everyone to be perfect little drones who all reacted the same way to the situations that they were thrust into. That was one of the difficulties that she had when adapting to a life at the hospital and without having her parents to be able to help her out of such a difficult spot. Admittedly, Lili’s heart still broke when she thought about her parents had abandoned her to her fate at the hospital. They had believed the words of the woman who had claimed that their daughter was dangerous and needed to be put in a place where her ability could be controlled instead of released freely. It was something that frustrated her, made her want to bang her head against a wall until someone actually listened to her. Though she knew that her parents weren't bad people, they had made a bad decision. They had chosen to listen to the words of Nadia instead of their daughters pleas for understanding.
It had resulted in her feeling extremely alone, even though @lucia had been there from day one. The wide-eyed blonde was someone that Lili had felt a kinship with immediately and her friendship over the last four years was something that she was beyond grateful for. There were little doubts that if she hadn’t had the guidance of the other girl that she would have ended up in solitary permanently, especially because she wouldn’t have known all of the rules. That was something that no one at Monroeville really seemed to do - sit down and talk to the patients about what was expected of them. No matter how much the hospital claimed that they were there to help, there was something about this place that left Lili feeling uneasy. It was a feeling that permeated the air and no amount of telling herself that she was imagining it seemed to really lessen those feelings. Her optimistic nature and a desire to believe the best in everyone, however, didn’t allow her to voice those feelings or even do anything about them.
Still, there weren't a lot of times when someone had so willingly put themselves between her and a potential situation. Yet the exotic beauty in front of her had done just that. There was something within those green eyes that pulled at her heart and brought forth a kaleidoscope of butterflies in her stomach. The girl across from her, who had chased away the orderly that had been so hell-bent on following Lilith from outside up to the second floor had been a salvation that she had never expected. It was a true act of kindness in a place that seemed to be filled with such a cold disdain. Lili’s hands wrapped around her own arms and she found herself rubbing at them absently, a distraction technique as she attempted to calm down the hammering within her chest from the exertion that moving so quickly had caused. It was a good thing that she was used to moving around or the circumstances of what had just happened would be vastly different than they seemed to be at present.
As the girl across from her stated that she wasn’t a monster, a feeling of guilt washed over Lili and her hands dropped from her arms to set into her lap, blue eyes downcast to hide the shame that she felt. ”No, you’re not a monster,” she said gently, pulling her eyes upward again as a hand reached out and squeezed her own. It was a small gesture, meaningless to anyone else who was operating under a rational mind - but Lili’s mind was far from rational, particularly in that moment. A shaky smile pulled at her lips as the condolences that were offered to her. It had been a beautiful bird, though the species had been unknown to her. ”It was. I wish that I could have done more.” Turning over her hand, Lili brushed her fingertips over the other girl’s palm, the touch feather light, but bringing something to light for the pink-haired girl that she had felt once before, when Mason had touched her hands in the cafeteria.
”Sophie,” she murmured, testing the sound of the same from her tongue. A smile broke over her features, this one more sure than the previous. ”Four years, give or take some time. It all blurs together eventually.” It was an unfortunate reality, but she had grown accustomed to it. ”What about you? I find it hard to believe I went that long without encountering someone as pretty as you.” It was forward, but Lili was the type of person who saw no reason not to compliment someone, especially when she found herself so quickly attracted to them.
Post by Sophie de la Cruz on Feb 16, 2019 13:28:55 GMT
There were a few things that Sophie could tell about the young woman in front of her. The first was that no matter what she had done, she clearly didn’t deserve what she was about to get from the orderlies were chasing her. This was largely why she had helped her in the first place; she couldn’t stand good people getting poor treatment. The other thing that she could tell about her pink-haired guest was that there was something calming, and somewhat unsettling, about her. Before she had run into this young woman in the hallway, her mind had been a whirlwind of thoughts, but now her mind had quieted down to only one or two. For a girl with a racing mind who had a tendency to try to shut off the world around her because it felt too loud, the silence in her mind was something that she desperately craved. Not that she knew how to vocalise any of that, of course, but that didn’t matter. Sophie was always better at showing people how she felt than she was at telling them, anyways. See, when she told people things, it often came out either laced with sarcasm or blunt and overly harsh, and the thought of her making the young woman before her feel any of those things was enough to make her feel just a little nervous.
Sophie watched as the young woman dropped her hands into her lap, and she immediately felt a sense of compassion, and just a little guilt, wash over her. She couldn’t say that she blamed Lilith for thinking that she might be some kind of monster who sold out their fellow patients, this place was littered with them after all. “Hey, don’t worry, plenty of people have made that mistake. Look at me, I don’t really trust most people.” In fact, Eli and Mason were the only two people that she did trust, and even Mason was a maybe considering their interactions had consisted with both of them giving the staff a runaround and getting tased together.
Good times.
There was something comforting about feeling Lili’s hand in hers, and even the brush of Lili’s fingertips over her skin was enough to send a shiver down her spine. She wanted more, which was a strange feeling for her since she almost never did, but there was something so intimate about what they had been through, and their current and necessary closeness, that made her feel like this was right. It was for that reason that her thumb came up, brushing over the backs of her new friend’s fingertips, as if coaxing her to stay in that position instead of pulling away altogether. Even if all they did was sit there, holding hands and waiting for enough time to go pass before they snuck back out of the library, one by one to avoid special attention. Her desires were simple, though she supposed that her idea of “simple” was probably more along the lines of “boring” by her peers, but that was beside the point. When she had been thrown in here, she had been only fifteen years old, which means a lot of the simpler things about relationships and companionship had been something that she hadn’t had at all. Those were the things that she craved, though she closed herself off so much from other people that there was no way anybody, except maybe Eli, would know about that.
Sophie smiled as Lili said her name, relishing the way that it sounded as she said it. However, at the next thing that Lili said, her lips parted, both in surprise and a little bit of regret. Four years. She had been here for the same amount of time as Sophie had been, and they had never run into one another before. The perks of being antisocial. “Believe it or not, four years.” She chuckled, shaking her head, though her cheeks turned a bit pink as Lili called her pretty. “And all this time, I could have been keeping the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen company.” Reaching up, Sophie brushed a bit of Lili’s pink hair back from her face, a little surprised at how soft it felt. She had seen more than her fair share of home dye jobs, and they always turned out feeling like a bristle brush. Everything about Lili seemed soft and sweet, and she found herself hopelessly attracted to the other girl, and even though she knew that it had to, she never wanted this moment to end. “I’m just glad I ran into you now… even if the circumstances weren’t exactly ideal.”
Post by Lilith Grace Taylor on Mar 3, 2019 1:34:57 GMT
There was a presence about the patient that sat beside her. It was strong, sure of herself in a way that could have been just as much of an act as it could have been real. Her eyes were soft, comforting in way that you didn’t get the opportunity to see much of within the walls of Monroeville. Most people moved about blankly or with a darkness about them that begged you to try and seek solace from them. Lilith had been here long enough to know the people that she was meant to avoid and those that she was allowed to seek out when she just needed someone to tell her that everything was going to be alright. Nina, one of the cooks, was one such woman who offered comfort and acted as a beacon of light in a place that was filled with such darkness. Something as small as extra pudding cups made all the difference to people like them and the more that time went on, the more Lili found herself appreciating that kindness.
It was no different than what Sophie had just done for her. A simple act of kindness - no, this was more than that. It hadn’t been simple and Lili knew that if the other girl was caught lying about her location, it would only spell trouble for the both of them. The idea that she could be the one getting Sophie locked up in solitary or punished in some kind of way physically caused Lili pain; she never wanted to be the reason that anyone got in trouble. It was worse when they disappeared for days at a time and came back with a foggy memory. It had happened to more than one of her friends. There were even times when they hadn’t come back. The people who held positions of power said that it was because those people had gained enough control over their ability to be released back into the community, but Lilith had trouble believing that. No matter how much she wanted to believe her friends could get better, she also knew many of them well enough to know that they weren't always at that point.
Her eyes sought out Sophie’s curiously. Lili didn’t know what it was to not trust most people. She had come from a place where she seemed to trust everyone until she was given a reason not to. Most of the orderlies were on a list of people that she couldn’t really trust or confide in, but many of the patients were different. Lucy, Eli, Ben, Mason… they were all the sort of people that made being in this place tolerable. Lucy had been her friend for the longest time and was, without a doubt, the person that she trusted more than anyone to keep her word and not steer anyone in the wrong direction. Blind loyalty, so to speak. ”I should know better than to assume the worst,” Lili said softly. The truth of the matter was that she probably wouldn’t have if it weren't for the predicament that she had found herself in moments ago.
The silence that fell between the two of them was comfortable, nothing but the sound of their breathing and an occasional brush of fingertips against skin to occupy their minds. Hearing that Sophie had been in Monroeville as long as she had almost made her stomach lurch. How had she gone so long without meeting someone so kind? It was a travesty and while her mind whirled, Lili attempted to remain present in this moment. They had met now and that was really the only thing that mattered, wasn’t it? Her cheeks flushed at the compliment that was redirected towards herself and Lilith found herself subconsciously leaning towards Sophie’s hand as it brushed some of her hair back, seeking out that comfort in the only way that she knew how. ”Better late than never,” she agreed, the smile on her face delicate in spite of what she knew was going to have to come.
Arching her neck, Lili looked through the stack of books, peering between their tops and the bottom of the shelf that held them. It was still too soon to leave their position without getting caught, she knew that much and so she turned back towards the Latina woman beside her. ”What do you like to do around here?”
