Lilith woke in cold sweat before hearing an angel's voice.

"The sun is a wondrous body, like a magnificent father; if only I could be so grossly incandescent." Twilight recited, sliding a ruby-socketed dagger across her hooves.

"You really think I'm like that...? Like the sun?" She hushed quietly, shaking in silence and stifling her breath.

The answer took a split second. Twilight cringed and fluttered everywhere when she was embraced. The alicorn sat motionless as her oblong case fell limply below. It revealed her blade without cover. Without scabbard or wrappings. Curved and thin, it was only good for unsuspecting enemies. It's form was too brittle to handle armor or any blade structurally more sound than itself. Twilight carried a trick weapon. When it was seen, her cover was no more than tatters.

"I know you're like that. You're more than that. You're an angel. Brighter than any star. Or any spell. You've saved me so many times, heh... To me, you're God. You're the only one that ever felt something and came back." Lilith murmured, rubbing her own eyes.

A tear slipped her cold gaze as the princess looked down at her human hands. They were so split. So individual. Incomplete. And articulated, but brittle. Between fingers were spaces for more fingers. Twilight saw her horns and noted they were like handles. Like steering wheels. And her eyes were so small. Too little to see everything. Mankind was made incomplete. She held her hooves between Lilith's palms and whispered 'how could you do this to me.'

"How could you love me. How could you make me cry..." Twilight trembled, blinking thrice and falling three tears.

"How couldn't I... You made me stare at light I never saw. And you saved me countless times, just because you were you. I love that about you. I love you because you're you."

She grit her teeth.

"I can't love you- I-"

"I know... I know you can't love me. But keep it with you. Someone loves you. Don't forget, okay...?"

Lilith kissed her snout and lay next to her hospitalized angel. Love was forbidden between angels and demons. Like gods and humans. So she stayed there, in that purgatory of things never said. Because who said the wingless didn't deserve wings. The incubus held her little slice of heaven and remembered her today. Just like everyday before... and after. Lilith slowly, but surely, put her lashes together and watched the world grow dark.

Author's Note

"How could you love me."