sad eyes on happy faces

Isla take your medicine "I mean this in the kindest way, Sunjata, but nerdy isn't the first word I think of when you talk about your upbringing," Isla says in her defence. Dark, traumatic, maybe even intense if she's trying to be nice, but the Flood hasn't exactly lived a sheltered life, no matter how geeky he might be at heart. "But if that's really the case, I'll make sure I treat you appropriately moving forward." Quite what that means is a mystery in itself, given that Isla can't rightly be said to be any different. Maybe she'll just start writing interesting factoids on little notes for him to find. "Mm, it was safe there, until I found it," she corrects, purposely choosing not to expand on that purely in the hope that he'll go checking under the bed to make sure it's all in order. "Hey, you may as well have one. Gotta take any chance to be happy these days, right?" she says of the dragon's nest (and likely a lot of other things, too), stepping into the hustle of the House of Midnight and doing her best to look as though they've been out intentionally, though her bloody dress and puffy eyes likely give it all away. "I don't know about you, but I really need a drink."