Chapter 19 | All my friends are dead (and Mama is too)

Her friends were dead. Stashta, Vallince and Polli. Younger than her. Older than her. Barely.

this was the Shiv’s doing?

The militancy?

Tears - collected by Le’falyne in a little bowl made of itself. Lilly would have laughed if her mental wound wasn’t actively bleeding out.

She quivered. She heaved. Her mother wast dead. Gone. Was there even an afterlife? The thought of her mother not existing at all was a new fear. A fear moer raw. Her entire body convulsed. 

Sui held her with Jorgons help. She relied on her friends in this moment. Her rage was thawing, and now denial gave way to grief. True grief. Her father would never feel this grief. Papa was spared the moment to relive. 

She cried until there was no more -  no wait, still more tears. She had an endless supply. She cried herself to sleep. In the moment before losing consciousness, she felt a welcome calm. Her dreams beckoned.

A dagger through her chest. Sui, who kneeled over her. 

The Shivs.

She was stunned. They held Jorgon and his boyfriend on their knees to her right. The Shivs slit their throats and they fell with teary eyes.

“Ah. Here. Quick while she’s still waking. 

A dagger struck her in the chest. She punched the woman in the face. The woman paused. Then she twisted and pushed. Deeper. Pain - physical pain. Somehow she still felt the second dagger go into her shoulder. 

“Head, heart, neck!”

They slit her neck - but she turned to look to her left so the knife slit her skin open and an artery. She passed out. 

Her friends were laying around her. She had the most blood under herself. Sticky and dark. Almost the same as the worst day. She stared at the three people. They all looked like a murder scene. They were a murder scene. 

She shakily held herself up. The boys’ necks were sealed with scars. They weren’t breathing. 

Sui… The dagger was gone. A blue light emitted where she was stabbed. Le’falyne had taken residence in her. She wasn’t breathing either. Are they…dead?

Le’falyne was pleased. The water did not seem to understand. 

Small globs of blue swam in the pool of blood all four of them had left. 

Blood is good for soil. Bright green plants grow. 

That is so much blood.

Your blood. Lilly. 

Oh this is very dangerous. He’s serious about this! It’s real. Thanks mama and papa. I remember your warnings. She had to lead him on. (pediphile) 

foglight gas

She wasted no time.

The neck. Blat!

Chest Digget!

Groin. Smat.

Back of the neck. Muck.

He’d suffered too much. 

He was dead. No more foglight for him. 

All my friends are dead. They're dead, but not dead. Somehow they did not decay, but they also do not breathe. They're filled with Le faleen. She could feel its cool form throughout them. Will they ever be the same if they come back drizzle? Jorgen matt two nathan

VERSION 2:

Sui hugged her. Sweet, sweet Sui.

Suey was sweet in a way lily.Could it hardly to describe. She was a sunbeam on your face. Put a cool. Breeze on her skin at the same time. That was the feeling of sweetness that's sue.It sued upon her. 

Lily almost felt like oh, the pain suffering or of the last months could be hugged away by her close friends. they were more than friends right? All her friends were dead or in some sort of past dead, sort of not but not breathing, but not decaying strange state. Lily was her friend too. But she was more than a friend.

Suey loved her and she loves sui back.So maybe she couldn't say that all her friends were dead. 

The Shivs came at dusk to attack lily, then try to end her threat to them.

Plasma rods were brandished.No, brian lyce or flashes came from them. 

They came with swords and daggers and pistols.

They wore coats ans top hats just like the militants ut they did not have the unified discipline. Lilly could see that they moved more quickly and without hesitation.

After they attacked and hervfriends we're dead or incapacitated, or whatever happened to them, then the shivs that were still conscious or suck in the mud, so lily drag to each of her friends, slowly, one by one out of the park. Even the ravens nearly stood upon their perches and watched as she completed the process extremely slowly. 

Lily wait serena said. Please let me heal the critically injured ones.

Why?No, they will try to hurt us all again. 

We have to, we can't be murderous enemies all the time.

It's not all the time.Do you really have to use that word, i mean phrasing?

Suina scowled. “ This is what I do! I clean up the mess!” She sounded angry.  Then she ran off with pep. Wha she happy?

Lilly had an idea and for once Le'falyne agreed. It splashed mud aroilund each trapped person and escaped the dirt so that each was encased in a dirt shell wider than they could reach. 

This gave Lilly ans Suina time to gather their friends and get help. 

Suina eventually finished and came over to tend to the wounds Lilly acquired by protecting her. 

Ugh, it was really hard keeping them from you and teyingnto humt them down. There are so many citizens in the Shivs. I recognize them. I dont want to hirt them.

Le'falynrn hummed withh watwry vibrations.