"Yeah, with the suits and tuxes? You'd look amazing. We'd be the envy of everyone in the speakeasy. And there's a way to get around that--be the stars of our own stories. Even if we have to write them ourselves."

Lexi often wondered why she'd been chosen for this. This life, these powers. But when she thought about it, really thought about it, she realized that she'd done more growing and had more independence than she had in years back home. That she'd proven to herself that she could manage on her own and later that she didn't have to when she fell for Luz.

Lexi didn't regret a thing. Other than the times she could have been more help, but wasn't.

"Let's pretend that the bears and snakes don't exist, at least for now?"

Because she didn't want to have to go against whatever the woods of Trench had to offer any more than she had to.

"I know you won't. I trust you."

With everything, with her heart and soul and life.

"Will do, ma colombe." And off they went into the sky.