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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly is in the bar with coffee and a sheet of paper, on which she is making semi-frantic notes about what to get everyone for Christmas. There are a lot of people on this list, and not a lot of time. Hence the frantic.

This was easier when she was a ghost. Intangibility is the best 'couldn't go shopping' excuse ever.

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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly stiffens, just a bit.

"Yeah. I know."

[lastgunslinger]

"Suppose you do." Quietly.

[awesome_lilly]

"I always did," Lilly says, shrugging.

"I just... really know now."

[lastgunslinger]

Roland looks at her for a moment.

"Are you well?" Beat. "And no lies to save face, I beg."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly is quiet for a long time.

"No."

[lastgunslinger]

He didn't expect a different answer.

"Are you going to be?"

[awesome_lilly]

"I don't know."

She shrugs, one-shouldered.

"Working on it."

[lastgunslinger]

"You learn to live with it."

[awesome_lilly]

"How?"

[lastgunslinger]

Roland is silent for a moment.

"You have something to look ahead to. And you keep moving toward it. And you don't stop."

Pause.

"'Tis a fine balance, though. Between learning to live with it, and letting that learning ruin you."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly sighs.

"Great. Well, we'll see. I think if I ever suddenly lunge for Wash's throat, we can go with ruined by the learning."

[lastgunslinger]

Lilly gets eyed.

"You," he says, "are not me."

[awesome_lilly]

"Nope," Lilly says.

"I'm much prettier."

[lastgunslinger]

"Bullshit."

Says Old Long Tall and Ugly.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly arches an eyebrow.

"Please, Ro. I'm stupider since I left some of my brains by the pool in Neptune, but not that much stupider. I'm the pretty one, you're the stoic. Know your role."

[lastgunslinger]

"You can be stoic and pretty."

See that smile. Isn't it cute.