@innerbeast
"Fancy seeing you here." Lilli drapes her towel over her shoulders, shaking ocean water from her hair and planting her surfboard in the sand beside the dock.
Things have been strained since their last fateful encounter, to say the least. Dar had been so different that day. The look in his eye, the finality with which each blow was struck... when he'd brought the axe down, and—
...
...she's been trying not to think about it. Keep moving, as always. No use dwelling on the past. She's a warrior of light. It's what she does.
And yet.
Though it's been a few weeks since they'd spoken more than in passing, Lilli was determined not to lose a friendship due to something outside their control. Even if they don't talk about what happened, if they can just go back to how things were...
she shakes a stray petal out of her hair. damnable things were getting everywhere...
Carefully avoiding his tackle box and fishing line, she lowers herself onto the dock beside him, gazing out at the waves. "Catch anything? You'll have to forgive my lack of knowledge; you know I'm not much of a fisherman myself."
