[ Honestly. With the gently upstanding, idealistic narrative this setup provides? She's surprised it took Ammy so long to show up. But here she is now, laughing and twirling like she's right out of a picture taken the year before—when those Hazel and Eleanor girls were both rushing at the starlight behind their screens, or when Amaterasu still had her literal fifteen minutes of embracing her own glow without sitting pretty at Ananke's feet. This same time of year, wasn't it?
And here Luci is in the exact damn sentimental Holiday Nostalgia trap she'd hoped to avoid. ]
Warming away the cold with a psychedelic explosion? You wouldn't have it any other way.
[ She keeps standing tall there as if out of nowhere, expression vague and hands in her pockets as she waits for the other shoe to drop. Suddenly being alive again is nothing if not improvising, and all. ]
OH NONAH
And here Luci is in the exact damn sentimental Holiday Nostalgia trap she'd hoped to avoid. ]
Warming away the cold with a psychedelic explosion? You wouldn't have it any other way.
[ She keeps standing tall there as if out of nowhere, expression vague and hands in her pockets as she waits for the other shoe to drop. Suddenly being alive again is nothing if not improvising, and all. ]