@bluexletter (for Alice. In which Lilia manages to stop Agatha before she kills Alice completely because why not?)
Alice had moved forward, acting before Lilia could stop her. It was meant in good intent, she wasn't attacking Agatha, she was saving her, but Lilia didn't believe the witch would care to know the difference. The moment the ghost of Agatha's mother had been knocked out of her body, Lilia saw the change. She heard herself scream but Alice couldn't break free and Agatha wouldn't stop.
Thinking quickly, Lilia had looked around and spotted a nearby lamp. Grabbing it in both hands, she swung it around with as much momentum as she could muster, cracking Agatha about the head with it. The siphoning cut off abruptly as both Agatha and Alice fell to the floor, the door to the trial opening in the same moment. Between herself and Jen carrying Agatha while Rio and Teen carried Agatha, they had managed to get them both outside quickly enough.
But even after Jen's work, Alice was still unconscious.
"Alice," Lilia gently coaxed, a hand on her arm. The girl didn't look good, half drained of life and power, but she had to believe that would recover in time, that it would come back to her. At least she was alive. "We need you to wake up."














