Hotaru
"Perhaps that can be your new side business if you stay here," she teases, steepling her fingers and grinning just behind them. "Torchline loves kitschy decor." Wherever she is, Flora better be appreciating Hotaru's dedication to being her daughter's recruiting wingwoman.
"You're beautiful, talented, and have a wealth of drama and gossip to both supply and attract. You're practically catnip." Her accompanying wink makes it clear the latter in that list is a compliment; being near Remi unintentionally changes you into a drama-magnet, Hotaru doubts it's a transition anyone can resist.
Delicately rubbing the crumbs from her own cucumber and dill sandwich onto her plate, Hotaru's expression plainly brightens at the chance to discuss her Academy. "It's called the Arcane Academy, devoted to teaching and strengthening magic. It was dormant for many years; I reopened it in my son's memory." And already she has seen the strength it has given others, strength she hopes will shield them the way Enzo's magic couldn't. "I admit I haven't explored the Underwater Kingdom either, even with the new transportation available. It still seems so daunting." Which means she really just doesn't want to drown if she crosses some strange, invisible boundary. "Perhaps we can go together someday."
"You're beautiful, talented, and have a wealth of drama and gossip to both supply and attract. You're practically catnip." Her accompanying wink makes it clear the latter in that list is a compliment; being near Remi unintentionally changes you into a drama-magnet, Hotaru doubts it's a transition anyone can resist.
Delicately rubbing the crumbs from her own cucumber and dill sandwich onto her plate, Hotaru's expression plainly brightens at the chance to discuss her Academy. "It's called the Arcane Academy, devoted to teaching and strengthening magic. It was dormant for many years; I reopened it in my son's memory." And already she has seen the strength it has given others, strength she hopes will shield them the way Enzo's magic couldn't. "I admit I haven't explored the Underwater Kingdom either, even with the new transportation available. It still seems so daunting." Which means she really just doesn't want to drown if she crosses some strange, invisible boundary. "Perhaps we can go together someday."
come what may
she would be wild, untrammeled, free
she would be wild, untrammeled, free
