Maybe the potential seeps from Lily to Emma every time they interact? Hence “things are brighter” for Lily when they’re together, but the opposite for Emma.
Interesting. There’s definitely something afoot when those two are together. But then there’s 2 elements of whatever Lily’s curse is. There’s the propensity for bad decisions, and then there’s this hovering cloud of bad luck, and I’m not sure I understand the supposed relationship between the two. It’s like A&E are trying to peddle the idea of instant karma, which really doesn’t work. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people in our world. Is the “darkness” that allegedly got transferred out of Emma responsible for the bad decisions, or the bad luck, or both?
On a different note, if Lily and Emma are connected, as they appear to be from all the cosmic light show happening when they fought, they also have to be, in some senses, symmetrical. Presumably, any random child couldn’t be the “Anti-Savior” otherwise. So what makes Lily and Emma similar? Is Lily is also the product of TL and hence magical?