"You were lonely, weren't you? I can understand that feeling." She had been shunned by so many back in her hometown, abandoned by her father, rejected even by her own mother. In that way, they were the same. "Maybe that's why I put up with you even though you irritated me and tried my patience in the beginning. I knew what it was like to be without friends."

So, he really had fallen in love with her for herself if the Shadow was to believed... Although she was torn on how to feel about it now that she had the details of his past. It was a heavy accusation but redemption wasn't necessarily impossible. He had protected her many times, fought the numerous demons plaguing this world. Even if they hadn't managed to rescue everyone in each case, they had prevented demons from adding to their lists of victims.

Lily let out a cry when the skeletal monster pressed the sword to his throat. "Lezard, stop! Are you trying to get yourself killed?!" She threw her arms around his waist from behind in an attempt to pull him back. The Shadow was beginning to distort as hers had in the foggy tunnel but this one seemed to be decaying, a gruesome approximation of what the sorcerer might look like as a corpse. "Kanji said if you deny your Shadow, it'll turn into a monster and attack you!"

"It's okay to be scared." Her voice trembled as did the arms around him. "I reckon I've been just as scared here, knowing the people here don't cotton to witches. Or worrying what my friends would think if they knew about the folks I accidentally killed in Jarod. People can change and even if you did something wrong in the past, I can't just hate you after everything that's happened between us."