yeah i was pretty moved by this. i like how explicitly lillian’s appreciation & willingness to love and care for these kids is tied to her desperate and long-denied desire to love and care for herself. like, it’s such an obvious metaphor, their literal fire against her wildness & weirdness; and sometimes an unsubtle metaphor works! just some weird people choosing to care for each other in a bleak world. 

also everything with lillian and madison was also so tense and weird and good and sad