Omlette du Frommage? [Tier/Lily]

Lilynette closed her eyes. She knew that Tier was here to support her....they were, even if they ...didn't spend HUGE ammounts of time together, sortof like...close friends. And honestly...with how few and rare that was....for all she knew, they might even be best friends by process of elimination. And it was only that thought in her mind that let her speak up.

"I've spent so long combing Hueco Mundo. Telling myself that what I'm looking for is exactly what I remember. Like...one day I'll just....look just past the horizon and see him. Just like I remembered him." She noted softly, closing her eyes and ...hanging her head, looking down to the ground as she felt a sliver of sadness course through her. She was glad that she was where she was, leaning against Tier...she wasn't sure f she'd be able to say this otherwise. She wasn't sure if she could.....say this...if she was looking Tier in the eyes. "Maybe I should.....accept that maybe Starrk isn't there. So ....I think I need to head to Soul Society. Maybe just...now and then, and start looking through their Ruknogai districts." She noted quietly, closing her eye as she did.

"I.... don't know exactly what I'd do if I found him there. I...don't even know if he'd remember me. But.... I ...just can't ignore the possibility that that's where he might have been this whole time. I can't just....keep combing the same old place and hoping he'll magically show up." She wiped her eye. "And that's why I've been down here so often. Running with Ichigo. Mingling with humans. If I DO find him....I want him to have a pack I can welcome him back into. And ....if ...the rukongai is where I find him. I at least want to ...be able to get along with ...whatever is left over of him."

God dammit.

She had been holding onto herself. Keeping her voice steady.... trying to just make this.....simple. Easy. Just .... a solemn thing for her to say. But that soft murmur of her name.... and the feeling of Tier wrapping their arms around her....and pulling her into that warm bed of companion. She couldn't even muster a dirty joke or a snide remark. What had simple.....simmered beneath the surface, that small little sadness.... being pulled in close like this pulled that out into the open, and a very soft sound escaped her as she cried into the woman's chest. and more and more, the plausibility....the LIKELIHOOD...of Starrk being something completely different became more and more of a plausible reality.

She couldn't reply to tier right away. She...s.he couldn't just....sob it out into the woman's chest. She ....took slow, shaky deep breaths as she composed herself. Pulling it all.....together. Until at long last, she nodded her head. "I'm gonna. Even if he doesn't......remember... Somethin's gotta be there. And if there isn't, then I can just make somethin. I....I'm a nice girl right? I'm a bro...." Her voice broke a little at the end of that, trying her best to keep her words from breaking into a sob.

"We're gonna find them.... I promise." She said, very specifically. Because she knew she wasn't the only one that was hurting. Looking up with those teary eyes, she reached up, and gently set her hand on the side of Tier's mask. Her expression....determined, keeping that gentle touch, to keep Tier from turning away. She knew that Tier sometimes hesitated in moments like this, turning fully, she made eye contact. She wanted Tier to know this wasn't just.....reciprocation. This WASN'T just....her trying to say the right thing, to comfort her. It was a promise. "We're gonna find all of them. As many as we can. I promise.....okay?"