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[lilyground]

[The feed opens to silence. A long, long silence. When Lily speaks, her tone is an obviously forced, strained calm.]

Where is Kage's ID?

[Another pause.]

Where's B's?

[Here she tries to lock a post to Kage and B, but with no ID to lock to, ShipNET gives her an error message instead.Where are they? I can't - where did they go? They're not gone.

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[wiserthanusall]

[Sigh]

You are not alone.

[Child, you are panicking. Oogway sighs and puts down his comm and goes to find her. She's got potential, but a Kung-Fu Warrior, she is not.

Yet.]

[lilyground]

[Oh, she's locked away in her room, which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear bomb.

Lily can be heard far, far away in the background, mumbling to herself.]

They gave me life and family and I wanted to see real flowers they SHOWED me real flowers they GAVE me real flowers, Kage and B and Even, Even, EVEN and Chase, and Hazar and Tyler and Haine and Giovanni, all of them GONE I am ALONE and, and I am ALONE.

[commentlog? 8D]

[wiserthanusall]

[Oogway knocks loudly on the door. Don't make him climb all those damn stairs and come in by the window. He's old.]

Lily.

Lily Worth.

I am here.

[ EVENTUALLY ]

[lilyground]

[A voice, there's a voice. Lily scrambles over to her comm, praying to Zeshat and every other god she's heard of that it's Kage or B or Chase or -

No. Just Oogway.

Lily curls in a ball around her comm, afraid to let go. Kage might be there.]

Go away I don't NEED you right now OOGWAY.

[missmimmi]

[DEEP BREATH one two]

Lily.

[lilyground]

[YOU ARE ALSO NOT KAGE OR B OR CHASE OR -

There's silence, but ShipNET should say that she replied.]

[missmimmi]

[FFF]

Answer me, Lily.

[lilyground]

[Barely audible.]

Mimmi?

[Audio]

[invincibleyknow]

[He's only spoken to her once. But Lily's left an impression on him, and he already can't help but feel a little bit protective of her. So Asuka grabs the weird comm-thing--maybe it won't help, but he can't not-try. Especially having heard her sobbing like that.]

Lily--wait, Lily, right?

Wait. Hold on.

Talk to me.

[Come on. Please?]

[ audio ]

[lilyground]

[So many responses to go through. Lily considers ignoring them all. None of them are Kage or B or Even or Chase or Hazar or Tyler. Just voices in the air.

Everything's a dream. Just a dream.]

Who are you?

[ audio ]

[invincibleyknow]

[She's talking to him. That's good. That's a start. He's just gonna talk, voice calm in spite of a tiny string of tension. It's the words that are important. Bringing her back down to touch ground again. Right?]

Asuka. Remember? White hair, tatt--oh, wait, you couldn't see that--I met you at the w-- dance thing?

You were having fun. Right? All dressed up.

Remember? We talked that night.

[ audio ]

[lilyground]

[PAIN. A stab of metaphorical pain through her metaphorical heart.]

That was the last time -

[- I saw Kage.]

[HAVE A NOTCOMMENT 8D]

[withanokka]

[....This cannot be the same cheerful, slightly hyperactive girl that Sokka played capture-the-flag with, the same girl who offered to teach him combat. The ID is right, but...

He doesn't know what to say.

And in the end, he can't say much of anything at all.]

[ OH U ]

[lilyground]

[That's okay, Sokka. Chances are Lily doesn't care what you have to say, anyway.]

[Locked // 75% Unhackable]

[notwhatiwas]

[After being a creeper and listening to Lily being a mess of pain all over the network, Vincent decides he should say something.]

Sleeping forever wouldn't make it any better.

[ unlocked ]

[lilyground]

You don't know that.

Maybe I'm already dreaming.

I'm dreaming.

[Locked // 75% Unhackable]

[notwhatiwas]

No, Lily, you're not.

...Believe me, I would know. You're not.

[ unlocked ]

[lilyground]

That's what a dream person would say.