[Oh]

I've made a promise to someone else, to let them have their own body.

We have a necromancer. We have a lot of talent magic users. We can figure something out.

If...if you're still there?

[She's putting her book in her bag and picking up the bottle. Trying to feel for his presence at all.]

[But only getting magic.]

[And....and Celestia, why. Why this.]

[It hurts her, it genuinely does, tears gathering in her eyes as she curls around the bottle.] I'm sorry, Lily....

[ALSO SHE'S STILL BLEEDING PRETTY BADLY, but like, she has been hit by a lot of grief that wasn't her own, so she's]

[She's a mess]