[After all the battles and being bounced back and forth so many times between San Francisco and Death City, Lily almost never thought this day would come. Being told that she could finally return home for good. She and Lezard had been to Mongolia to help defeat the snake witch but the idea almost seemed strange now.]
[The thought that it was time to leave this city. Leave Yesterday’s Magic and return to Aunt Cora’s Closet. Leave the friends she had made. And most of all, leave him… Her partner. Her heart ached at the thought. She’d miss the others who were still here too but the thought of returning to her world without him, possibly not even remembering him…]
[She tried to tell herself she didn’t have to leave just yet. She should say goodbye to the folks who were still here. She also had to find someone local who’d want to take over the shop. That would take some time, possibly weeks. Maybe, she could stay until his birthday at least. But realistically, she knew she had to go back. Miriam still needed to be saved back home.]
[She walked through the city, trying to gather her thoughts, but the place seemed teeming with memories now. Days at the shop with Kanji, Josuke, Karina and Yuugi. Walking upstairs to visit Eve at the cafe. Passing by the Agency where Raidou and Alucard and Edgeworth worked.]
[The park held even more. The training field where she’d chatted with Rosalia, Naoto, plus many others who were no longer here. That flowerbed where Amaterasu always liked to nap. The place where Giroro and Keroro had left paint splotches on the grass. The spot where those folks had thrown rice at her and Lezard one night thanks to a rumor. Star-crossed lovers. She’d scoffed at the time but it was almost as if it had come true now, hadn’t it?]
[If you ran into her whether at the park, the shop, or just out in the streets, she would likely seem a bit distant, as if lost in a reverie.]
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[The thought that it was time to leave this city. Leave Yesterday’s Magic and return to Aunt Cora’s Closet. Leave the friends she had made. And most of all, leave him… Her partner. Her heart ached at the thought. She’d miss the others who were still here too but the thought of returning to her world without him, possibly not even remembering him…]
[She tried to tell herself she didn’t have to leave just yet. She should say goodbye to the folks who were still here. She also had to find someone local who’d want to take over the shop. That would take some time, possibly weeks. Maybe, she could stay until his birthday at least. But realistically, she knew she had to go back. Miriam still needed to be saved back home.]
[She walked through the city, trying to gather her thoughts, but the place seemed teeming with memories now. Days at the shop with Kanji, Josuke, Karina and Yuugi. Walking upstairs to visit Eve at the cafe. Passing by the Agency where Raidou and Alucard and Edgeworth worked.]
[The park held even more. The training field where she’d chatted with Rosalia, Naoto, plus many others who were no longer here. That flowerbed where Amaterasu always liked to nap. The place where Giroro and Keroro had left paint splotches on the grass. The spot where those folks had thrown rice at her and Lezard one night thanks to a rumor. Star-crossed lovers. She’d scoffed at the time but it was almost as if it had come true now, hadn’t it?]
[If you ran into her whether at the park, the shop, or just out in the streets, she would likely seem a bit distant, as if lost in a reverie.]