we show off our different scarlet letters
Vague disquiet flutters across Flora's face to hear that science was at all cult-like, before something a touch mischievous realigns her smile. This was information she would definitely be passing onto a certain friend, who she was sure would be horrified by the implications. "Mmhm. Phoebe was too, before..." Flora rolls her wrist in a gesture that's far more Remi than she'd like to admit. Before she was a demigod. "Or well, a midwife, but same thing." Was it? Flora didn't care.
The turning tide of the conversation has the laughter dulling in the Doubletake's aqua eyes as she nods with weighty understanding. "Yeah..my twin died during the war. Just down the road, actually." Glancing to the side as if she might see through the wall and the buildings that stood in between where she now sat with Isla and where Enzo had taken his last breath, Flora considers for a moment before looking back. "Everyone told me just to move on and cheer up and like..get myself out of it? But I didn't want to. It felt like too much work, and like betrayal? and just..no." Clearly she had worked out of it, but in her own time.
"Sorry you lost someone, though." And even though it went without saying, Flora still felt the need to say it: "Fucking stupid war."
The turning tide of the conversation has the laughter dulling in the Doubletake's aqua eyes as she nods with weighty understanding. "Yeah..my twin died during the war. Just down the road, actually." Glancing to the side as if she might see through the wall and the buildings that stood in between where she now sat with Isla and where Enzo had taken his last breath, Flora considers for a moment before looking back. "Everyone told me just to move on and cheer up and like..get myself out of it? But I didn't want to. It felt like too much work, and like betrayal? and just..no." Clearly she had worked out of it, but in her own time.
"Sorry you lost someone, though." And even though it went without saying, Flora still felt the need to say it: "Fucking stupid war."
