Lillith took his hand and led him silently back to where he'd set the basket. She sat down on the ground and made an inviting motion for him to sit in her lap if he wanted to.

"I'm... I'm angry, but I'll... get over it." She sighed. "Carmilla's revenge for us skipping band practice was to... significantly damage one of the gifts I got for you. I didn't notice until I pulled it out of hiding to come here."

She growled quietly under her breath, then ran her fingers through his hair to help calm herself. "It's... It's not even the gift itself. I can replace that. She just... She spent a whole week winding me up, trying to predict what she was going to do to me. Then we found out our instruments..." 

She tightened her fist around the little box. "I thought that was what she had been building up to. I relaxed. I was glad to just have it over with. We had a good week, a good practice... And then [i]this[/i]."