It's been six months since that day—six long, complicated months since Lilith and Ophelia returned, and everything changed all over again. From the very beginning, they did everything they could to prove they were no longer the same monsters we'd once had to fight. I won't pretend it wasn't difficult—because it was. For everyone.
They spent countless days and sleepless nights trying to mend what they'd shattered. In those first four months, they somehow managed to win back the trust of nearly everyone around them. The people who had once feared or despised them started to greet them again with cautious nods, then hesitant smiles. Aria, Eliana, even the spirits who'd once refused to stand in the same room with them gradually began to accept them again, piece by fragile piece.
But for me and Kieran, it wasn't that simple.
