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Say what you will about Lili Zanotto. She's angry. She's mean. She has scary powers she has wicked control over. But between that anger and smarts, was a girl filled with passion and emotion.
Many other Psychonauts thought they knew her. Ask her cousins or her boyfriend. Even her non-blood aunts and Uncles.
But there was one thing she kept behind closed doors.
"I miss you..." Lili mumbled against the body pillow. It had a cover that was decorated with her boyfriend.
She didn't go out buying it, she just found it at a comic book convention. She and Raz had gone there, but Lili found the booth first and bought the cover. It was supposed to be ironic, what with the obviously too flirtatious smile that decorated the pillow (a smile only meant for Lili) and the backside with advertised "character accurate skivvies" and just put his older body in his childhood long johns. Again, the smile was too flirtatious. He would have had a more nervous smile. That's why Lili rarely flipped the body pillow over.
"I wonder how you're doing... I wish we could communicate like how Milla and Sasha do. Mental talks..."
In the sunset light, Lili stared at the flirtatious smile. She thought about what Raz might say. 'Well now that we're strong enough for it, we'd be the perfect mission team!'
"Maybe even the next Sasha and Milla..." Lili told the body pillow confidently.
"Well, I wouldn't go THAT far." His eyes would shift as well as his hands, instead of being forever unblinking.
"Better than Sasha and Milla!"
"Now you're overreaching, Lili!" Raz would say.
Her nails dug into the pillow.
Raz's body was more lean than the pillow. She would feel his muscles and hear his laugh as she would playfully pinch at his ticklish sides.
She looked back up to the fake smile. Confident, like Raz on stage or when his plan is perfectly set in motion.
What would this Raz say instead?
"Better than Sasha and Milla in what ways, exactly? Hm, sweetheart?"
Or would be say sweetie? No, Raz only used that time and sweetie when he was flirting for information. Sweeties were generic women. Lili was the only woman who got sweetheart in that tone.
Next, he'd probably grab Lili and roll her on top of him. A pillow would be too uncomfortable on top of her anyways...
This so wasn't what Raz would do, though Lili climbed onto the body pillow anyways. She embraced it, and imagined nestling herself under Raz's chin. And how soundly she'd sleep.
(Lili awoke the next day with her entire body feeling tingly from her limbs falling asleep.)