TAGGING → Gracie Wood & Lily Potter (@lily--potter)
TIMELINE → Lunchtime, Friday, March 11th, 2024
SETTING → The Room of Requirement
SUMMARY → Gracie meets up with Lily in an attempt to apologize for her botched Umbra recruiting, hoping the two can move past it for the sake of the secret group.
GRACIE:
Gracie paced the Room of Requirement as she waited for Lily, reminding herself to take deep breaths. This was not going to be easy, not when the other girl so clearly had a chip on her shoulder still and seemed to have literally no interest in letting go of the harsh things Gracie had said to her. Which a gentler person might have understood, but not Gracie. In Gracie’s mind, Lily just needed to have tougher skin and get that people said things when they were mad sometimes, even things that maybe crossed a line. She was stubborn, and it was hard to change her mind, but for the sake of Umbra, she was going to try and at least play nice with Lily, no matter how much she didn’t want to.
Umbra was life and death -- or at last serious enough to get people expelled and even arrested, like Kitty and Ryder -- and Gracie had flipped out because she was scared. But like Roxy and Rose had told her, a good leader kept her head, even when people totally messed up... which, in her opinion, Lily had done. It was for the good of the group that she was here, though, and even if she still was pretty sure that Lily had deserved at least half of the names Gracie had thrown at her, she would suck it up and try to see if they could put that in the past. Surviving a war was more important than her stupid pride, no matter how difficult this was going to be for her.
