#also lila saying the sky is frightening because it reminds her of her own vastness and elena being the only one to get on the plane

[lilacerull0]

elena thinks conquering the chaos will reveal the true nature of everything to her and lila is aware of chaos as the one true nature even when she tries to conquer it. the girl who owes her life to words and numbers and the girl who owes her life to the sky and the sea and they are both afraid of being swallowed by their life source because they're at the mercy of these forces... it's how elena loves her books so much she can't stand that her life revolves around them and it's how lila learns to swim so quickly and spends too much time in the water, but she is the one to turn back home and away from the sea. and it's also how lila's greatest source of comfort is little women, a book, and her computers that she initially built out of paper and numbers and it's how elena's greatest source of comfort is the sea and how she shines and blossoms by the water and how her mother took her to the beach way before lila and her tried to see it as kids... lila is the sea and elena learned how to swim first and elena is the books and lila was the first one to learn how to read...