That would--that would go something like this:


Lyn-Z can pinpoint the day she first saw Amanda, really saw her. It was during the first run-through, when the girl who had been quietly playing the piano through the first few scenes turned around and spoke her first lines as Titania. It wasn't just that she knew the lines, knew all the tricky phrases by heart, but that she spoke them like she meant every word. Already. Having never rehearsed it before. It was like she was--

And it's silly, it's weird to think so, and Lyn-Z turns over another leaf in her sketch book and helplessly starts another drawing of Amanda, half-magical, half-real, torn jeans and painted face, wings just barely drawn in behind her.