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[ooh_lily]

Lily's almost used to this. It had been weird last time when she woke up fourteen, the same age as she'd been when she met Eddie, and Emmy had been so little that she'd just been scared by an unfamiliar face. Being nine was easier. Emmy was older now, and she played easily with strangers, so at least Lily could play with Emmy, even if she couldn

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[hollermehome]

The morning, Lisey decides as she wanders down the path, had been monumentally unfair so far. It had been one thing to wake up seven years old again; once she'd gotten her wits about her, it was pretty clear that this was just another of the island's little games. No, what she's really unhappy with is the fact that Scott smuckin' Landon had woken up next to her his regular old selwaf. Now where's the justice in that?

She notices, as she walks along, that she's wandered pretty close to Lily and Eddie's hut; as if to confirm that fact, in the next moment she spots Emmy, playing with an older girl that she initially takes for a neighbor. But she's not familiar, and Lisey can't remember Lily mentioning anyone... then, all of a sudden, the realization hits her and she breaks into a run. "Lily!" she shouts, to get her friend's attention. "Hey!"

[ooh_lily]

There was only a few people on the island who'd recognise Lil like this, and they were all male. She lifted her head and looked at the little girl running towards her. She squinted her eyes. Long blond hair, and there's only one woman on the island that Lily knows who looks like that.

"Lisey!" Lily scrambled to her feet, grinning. "You're a kid too!"

[hollermehome]

"I think we can mark this one down as the one and only time I'll have been younger than you," Lisey says, grinning. "Hey Emmy," she gives the little girl a wave. "Happy Halloween!"

"Is Eddie small too?" she asks curiously. Running after a three year old, she imagines, is exhausting at the best of times; the sudden loss of 30 or so years, she thinks, can't help any.

[ooh_lily]

"Eddie's right sized," said Lily with a little huff of breath that blew her curls out of her eyes. "He's around here somewhere. I'm just playing with Emmy until we go out trick or treating with Cutter and Lennox, later."

[hollermehome]

"Scott too," she says, with not a little envy in her voice. "We got candy, though," and the idea of that perks her right up. She hadn't remembered until now, but as a kid, Lisey'd had one hell of a sweet tooth. "There's going to be trick or treating?" The idea is, maybe, more exciting than it really should seem.

[ooh_lily]

"Well, either there's gonna be trick or treating or we're gonna make some?" Lily grinned at her friend.

"You should come. It'll be fun, won't it, Emmy?"

Emmy nodded enthusiastically.

[hollermehome]

Lisey smiles big; she hopes that this whole kid-thing doesn't last forever, of course, but it doesn't seem like the night's going to pass without a couple of perks, at least. "I'll be there!" she says excitedly. "Although I don't know what I'm going to do about a costume." Worst come to worst, she guesses, she can always do what they did for last-minute getups when she was a kid and make herself into a toilet paper mummy.

[ooh_lily]

"We could..." Lily thinks about it for a moment. "We could leave Emmy with Eddie and then go up to the compound and find you a costume? There's got to be something in the clothes box, eh?"

She grinned up at her.

"I'll go ask Eddie?" It seemed strange to be asking her husband for permission to do things, but Lily was nine and Eddie might worry if she just went wandering off.