Well, I can certainly try! It's been years, though, since I wrote this fandom, so don't expect too much.

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Lilah is more lovely dead.

Perhaps that's why Wesley distrusts it. It seems impossible that she should be real, should be something other than his imagination or guilt or regret. But the others can see her, so he hasn't lost his mind.

Or they all have. That seems possible. But this isn't the ghost he would have dreamed up; this is far too ordinary. He knows himself well enough to know that he would have created something of gore and accusations, returned to prick his conscience. She could do that, now that she's dead and he is no longer quite so certain of himself.

Instead, she has styled hair and a carefully arranged scarf. It seems appropriate, that his dead lover should reappear to offer rewards for saving (or destroying) the world and still be concerned with appearances. Lilah was always very good with the small details, the missing pieces that had slipped from their place.

Perhaps it's only the days of missing her that makes her look beautiful.