[The shadow considered this, along with the other things it was considering.
...but if that was true, if their--their--mother was here, then it meant she wouldn't be quite so alone. And that was a greater temptation than she could resist.
Silently, the shadow drifted to the edge of the lake, closest to Luna. It looked down at the girl again, with its unblinking red eyes. That was right. She was usually looking down at Luna, but only because she was the older sister and taller. But not this tall.
The shadow began losing cohesion, its back and many legs fraying into indistinct bits of black. It shrank, and the glowing wound in its chest did too until it was impossible to see.
Because the shadow was gone now. It was Lucy--Lucy as Luna remembered her from just earlier today, with Minako's ribbons tied to her horns--who stepped out of the lake's shallows onto the rocks surrounding it, though her steps were uncertain and shaky.]
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...but if that was true, if their--their--mother was here, then it meant she wouldn't be quite so alone. And that was a greater temptation than she could resist.
Silently, the shadow drifted to the edge of the lake, closest to Luna. It looked down at the girl again, with its unblinking red eyes. That was right. She was usually looking down at Luna, but only because she was the older sister and taller. But not this tall.
The shadow began losing cohesion, its back and many legs fraying into indistinct bits of black. It shrank, and the glowing wound in its chest did too until it was impossible to see.
Because the shadow was gone now. It was Lucy--Lucy as Luna remembered her from just earlier today, with Minako's ribbons tied to her horns--who stepped out of the lake's shallows onto the rocks surrounding it, though her steps were uncertain and shaky.]