PAX AM DAYS ; open, 200th post

[Suiteheart]

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"You're a good healer, Lil. And I love you."

The words she had last spoken to her daughter, Lil, were perched at the surface of her mind. So many things had transpired between the pair as of late. After a year of being estranged, they had found one another. Lil had taken up residence in the Typhoon while Suiteheart lived in the Ascendants. Their encounter had been by chance, but fate always had a way of bring on one back to those they loved the most. Even so, for all the good that one meet up had been, not too long afterwards had Lil seemed to have forgotten everything.

When Suiteheart and Margaery had had their private spat, Lil had joined them before either of their unfavorable sides could kill the other. She had brought both Margaery and Suiteheart back from the brink of self destruction. It had been a rather marvelous thing, honestly. The downside to all of it was that Lil did not know either of her mothers - she called them strangers. That hurt. It had hurt more than anything else had in a long, long time.

However, when Suite went to deliver the message about ending the alliance with the Typhoon, Lil had greeted her. Lil had been kind and pleasant then. She was so reminiscent of her usual self that Suiteheart had to restrain herself from calling her 'daughter.' Lil had also asked if the pair could remain friends, and Suiteheart quickly agreed to that. That pact was what had lead Suiteheart toward the Typhoon border with a request.

Lil was powerful with her budding magic abilities. She had locked away Suite's primal personality, and she had even beat back Margaery's dark alter ego. That being said, it was no surprise Lil was the only one Suite could think of to change her back into a feline. Suite had tried countless hours of mental sharpening in order to revert back to her normal state, but she always came up empty handed. She was just stuck. It was awful. It was terribly awful. But Lil had fixed it.

Suiteheart had not truly understood how her daughter was able to, but through her magic abilities, she had changed Suite back into a feline. When she did so, it was as if a key had been inserted into her mind. The lock on her shapeshifting abilities was broken. Along with now being back to her normal self, her daughter had made it so that Suiteheart could freely shift back and forth between forms without the fear of being permanently stuck (if she were to choose to do that). Suite, who had always felt she was never in control of anything, finally held the reigns of something. The smile she had given Lil was fourteen karats. It was brilliant and real. She had hugged the younger girl too, keeping her close for the few fleeting moments they had together. Lil had smiled too, and it warmed the Cosmic General's heart.

As the white feline traveled back to the Observatory, she was grinning vibrantly. She hadn't stopped smiling since transforming back. Her steps were hurried, too, as if she had forgotten how long it took to get home while being in this body.

Her mind was traveling at a hundred miles an hour as she neared the dome. Her brain immediately took her to Starrynight, and her chest ached and she frowned heavily. She wished she could have seen the look on his face when she waltzed through the Observatory doors. She would give anything to see his smile of pure starlight again. Her pace slowed momentarily as these ideas overpowered everything else, but she knew she shouldn't be this way. Starry wouldn't have wanted this. He would want everyone to be okay and happy.

So she would be.

Putting a pep in her step, she hurried for the Observatory. She let a smile grace her lips as she entered the doors. She stood still for a heartbeat, trying to catch her breath. "I'm back," the ivory feline purred.
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