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[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Sometime late after school, Lily is at the library. She's moderately less worried now, without even really thinking about it, about the level of danger out there, making her avoid day to day things she normally would. Almost kind of living shut in, at times. There is a certain confidence knowing how to disarm and flip grown men twice your size all of a sudden grants you.

She's had time to mull over things for a few days, now. In fact, that's sort of why she's there. Somewhere quiet, away from everyone. Just someplace she can think. Pulling out her phone, she types in a few numbers and]

For anyone who was wondering, Jasmine is fine now. Much better, in fact. Things were just a shock, and it sort of took its toll. It did for both of us, to some extent.

However, seeing all of this - seeing what the Precure can do, seeing just how dangerous the Blood Keys are - I know I've been resting on my laurels for too long. Expecting something to come along. I have things to protect, from my family to the friends I've made among you all.

The ability to protect those things is just out of my reach, but it's there. I'm not going to sit around anymore, lamenting my inability to do this. I can't afford that.

If there's ever anything I can do, I will do it. It might not mean a lot now coming from some teenager, but... I'm not satisfied just sitting here twiddling my thumbs anymore. I refuse to stay like that.

[She pauses for a moment, then types in something else, creating a message Private to Winter.]

Winter. I didn't bring this up the other day, because I hadn't spoken with Jasmine yet. But...

You remember, don't you? What I told you about her only remembering the Desert Apostles, our enemies.

I remembered more. This past self of hers, she was apart of them. Realizing this hurt her pretty badly, and while she's better now, she's probably going to have a hard time ahead of her. I'll do whatever I can, and I trust that you won't hold that against her, but... I'd already told you half of this, I figured you deserved the rest.

With that in mind, it's important I speak with you about something. I need to know more about all of this. About the Precure. This past life. Her relationship to this "Dark Precure" that Jasmine is reliving the memories of. I don't care how painful it is. I have to know in order to protect my sister.

When she mentioned that name, and described what she saw, I saw something. From this other girl's perspective, I saw Cerise and another girl defeated at the hands of this woman who looked like my sister. This "Dark Precure." But also I saw... two creatures with those girls.

...I never told you in detail what my first echo was, did I?

It was one of those creatures.

I saw him die.

You mentioned your "plushie" before. I didn't bring this up because I was afraid. I'm still afraid, but that doesn't matter anymore.

Winter.

I need to see him.

[She draws in a breath, closing her eyes. Why does she feel on the verge of tears typing that? As if she didn't already know. It was something she was avoiding for a long time, then.

Finally, she releases it and opens her eyes back. One more thing.

She types in another number, sending one more private message to Cherry.]

Hi, Cerise. It's Lily.

Sorry if this seems sudden, or a weird question, but... Jasmine and I both had things appear to us when we went to the Dead District. They're things we're both trying to work through, and...

I know the memories you've been getting come from the same place as us. I'm more certain of that than ever. Especially given what my sister remembered. And what that caused me to remember.

Because I had a memory where I saw the both of you.

I... guess you could say I'm concerned. I just want to make sure everything is okay with you, and if you saw anything you need to talk about.

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[alilyinthemoonslight]

Well, I wouldn't quite put it like that, but if there are things I can do, or things I may be able to do... I should do them.

I'm just tired of sitting here saying, "I can't do anything."

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[dragon_blossom]

power, responsibility, etc.

or more like not wanting to just sit around feeling less useful than you could be?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Something like that.

I feel like I've been quietly sort of whining about being useless too long in relation to all of this.

[dragon_blossom]

haha i will take being useless to some degree just to not be involved at all if that is somehow an option

[alilyinthemoonslight]

You know, I would have agreed with that a couple months ago. Now, I'm not so certain. Realizing I DIDN'T know about some of these dangers is kind of frightening. Because they were still THERE.

[dragon_blossom]

right

so like monsters could still get normal people or something? and aliens? and conspiracies?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

That IS inevitable if it's all as bad as it looks, isn't it? Wouldn't you rather have a fighting chance?

[dragon_blossom]

...if it gets that big i might not hate this so much.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Right now, I'm not sure how one can stop it from getting there.

[dragon_blossom]

maybe someone should try.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Don't get me wrong, if it could get us back to a normal life, I'd be the first one in line if anyone knew HOW.

[dragon_blossom]

guess we gotta save the world

[alilyinthemoonslight]

I really am going to sound like a broken record if I say "how" again, but I will say we're definitely ill-equipped for that at this point.

[dragon_blossom]

well probably not any time soon anyways we need to all get powered up i bet.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

And have some sense of organization.

And not having people going out trying to kill a bunch of people.

[dragon_blossom]

true true a unified effort is important. teamwork and all that and less murder.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Some people are at least trying to work on that whole "unified effort" thing. Some have had success there, but...

I don't know. We still feel too scattered. All of us.

[dragon_blossom]

of course we do we're all really fucking different people.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Facing the same problem, though.

...

Then again, I guess that was true of the world a lot of times before we ever found out about all this.

[dragon_blossom]

haha yeah imagine if countries with food shortages could get along because of a shared problem?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

So clearly, I'm expecting too much.

[dragon_blossom]

everyones terrible nothing new.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Well, not everyone. There's plenty here who prove otherwise.

[dragon_blossom]

yeah but that might still just be circumstantial.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

There's enough, at least.