I like Lils a lot. She is fantastic and the way you depict her is wonderful. I love the spacing and capitalization you use to emphasize her speech as well, it helps it stands out that much more. And Yhelm makes a wonderful foil for her, especially in contrast to Belham.

lils: best wife!

Yhelm are you going to fuck the Lils

look you can have nonsexual crushes

but i am coracle, however,

Reasonable Authority Figures are nice to see sometimes.

belham may be a skeleton-ghost gangster who literally eats fear, but he's probably the only decent parent that will show up in yhelm's story

I love watching how Lils grows. I wonder how much of her original identity and memories can be recovered by treating her as the original being? Of course, remembering too much could be bad, depending on what those things are.

she'll get to remember every detail of her own death, eventually, that'll be fun

and when half-dead are able to assert absolute continuity with the life they are sequential to, they tear the original story/soul of the deceased down from the stars in an act of sheer will and synchronization that leaves them 98% true immortal and one of the most powerful things-you-can-be in the setting

reclaiming your identity despite being dead makes you twice-dead, giving you all the powers of a hartlight dead (all the ghost element powers), but also all the powers of your own original species. because you gained full ownership over your identity after it stopped being yours you OWN it and if you're killed (as you count as a dead, you can only be permanently killed by being interred and put to rest ritualistically as it is,) you, who have already come back from the dead through ownership of your own story, can continue to come back from the dead, at will, always*, forever, even if they like, destroy your body. you just create a new one, it just takes time.

*there are actually several ways to permanently kill a twice-dead but some of the most powerful things in the world are twice-dead so it's not a bad thing to be