She looked between both of them, eyes wide and suddenly bright with tears, and taking her hands out of the opening, turned and kissed first Setsuna, softly on the cheek, and then Kira, on the lips and rather hard.

Then, stooping to the ground, she took from a fold of her cloak a little golden lamp, and flint and steel. As she struck them together, lighting the lamp, the tears spilled down her cheeks, but she didn't speak.