>Get as close as we can to Lily. Make physical contact with her.
>Does we feel that our attentions to reciprocate it's reaching is having any effect?
>Somebody just turned up the volume on the sax music...>It seems that Lily has the same idea, and steps towards you as you approach her. You definately feel that you're reaching closer to whatever property of the ring is generating that sense. The ring itself actually glows brighter as you stand eye to eye, shining brilliantly in the upturned palm of your hand. It is this hand you reach out to her with, and Lily slowly stretches out her small white hand, laying it gently in yours, atop the ring.
>Instantly, you have a sense that whatever is reaching out to you grasps your hand, both of your hands, firmly. The light from the ring erupts, blanketing you in a blinding gold light. You hear Chie yelp in surprise, and the Eagle yell in a mixture of surprise and pain. You feel the ring in your hand dissapear. At the same time, you have a sense of another hand coming to rest atop the linked hands of yourself and Lily. Whose hand, you cannot tell, but there is a distinct sense that someone is now standing very close to you and your fellow Ringed champion.
>When the light passes, and you can see again, there is another woman standing in the shack, her hand resting atop yours and Lily's. She is shorter than you, her face pretty, almost beautiful, her chin tapering to an elegant point. Her eyes are closed, and her black hair, which falls down to between her shoulder blades, is somehow tied back in a braid, though it is a touch unkept on top, wiry bits of hair sticking out here and there. Unclad as she is, you can she she's on the underdeveloped side, but hardly flat; certainly not as flat as the Eagle. And upon the ring finger of the hand resting atop Lily's is a golden ring.
