Mathias

Veronica shook her head quickly, opening her own bag. "She was," she said, "for a little while. Not very long." She hadn't expected to ever see Lilly again, though. Any time with her was enough, more than she'd thought she'd get. It was one of the few things in her life she knew of where she could honestly say she'd been lucky. "Better than not seeing her again, though. She died when we were sixteen." It wasn't something she talked about often at all, but Mathias knew something of loss.