Flora/Kaisel Parchment

(clearly written while running and nearly illegible | determined) Fuck that, I'm not waiting days to see you, I'm getting to you now.

(panicked and yelling) KAISEL BE SAFE.


meet me in the amphitheatre? that's halfway.

babe holy shit. (sounding out of breath) I'll fill you in more when I get home but I have to make a stop first. Zavien said Stormbreak is gonna fall. Like out of the sky. Like kerplunk into the ocean. Obviously, I said citizens could be here and whatnot, but... (sharp exhale). also Lena died during LN??

anyway, if you're in town, can you put something up on the notice board? just letting people know to expect Breaker's and that we should be bottling up healing water and whatnot.

see you in a bit.
(kissing sound)

(audible eyeroll in his voice) Ha-ha. Nice tryyyy, but you're gonna have to come up with something WAY better than that to trick me gurl. Almost believable when you said someone died, but I know that's your running breath and I'm not letting you bait me again, not after last time! Shame me once and all that.

(exasperated and short) fuck fine, I'll have Ronin do it

(warily) wait, are you being for real?

(tense) Flora? Hello?

(a pause, then nervous) You aren't joking, are you? 
Lena is...actually (voice cracking) dead?




(barely above a whisper, strained) Stormbreak is (a long pause)
Falling?

(anxious) Okay, I put up the notice.

(rushed and breathless) I don’t understand how this could even happen. Cities don’t just fall out of the sky. Stormbreak has its protections, it was raised into the air because it could handle...
Someone would have seen this coming.
Do you think someone caused this!?

(spiraling) Fuck. My parents. What're they gonna do, they've always been there! Where the hell is Koa? Is he safe?
(frantic) I should be there. I should already be there. What if they’re still up there? What if they don't leave in time?

(voice tight, barely holding) Shit

(drained)Yeah, I just met with Zavien. Soh sent me a letter saying they were just getting earthquakes or w/e, but he just told me that even Safrin said the city was going to fall. it's apparently something left over from the void...something about the Family being there that infected the city itself.

(reassuringly)Don't worry, they've got time. I'm sending all available soldiers and ships up to help evac. There shouldn't be any casualties.

I'm sure Soh and Zavien will find Koa, wherever he is. Maybe he isn't even in the city??

(volume varying with anger) The Family?! FUCK. Of course they leave us with one more gift.

(quieter, still reeling) I still don’t understand. There has to be something we can do. They can't just take the whole city. It can't just be doomed...



(small) Sorry, I shouldn't be unloading right now. I'll see you when you get home. Thanks for doing all you can.

(sounding uncertain) I just heard from Sunjata...apparently, my mom came home.

( a long pause) she...died, I guess. In the Draig, but she's home, and...(swallowing) but Jata didn't sound happy and seems very not okay so I don't know what's going on. He said he'd let her tell me the whole thing herself. I know how hard it was to just bounce back when I died, so maybe I'll just give her some time?

(uncertain)I should feel relieved but all I feel is worried.

(stunned) Shit, she died?!

(reassuring) You don't have to feel any one thing. This is heavy, Ro, it's gonna make lots of different things move when it settles. Feel it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Don't do anything today except feel, but I think you should go see one of them tomorrow. They might need you more than they realize or want to say outright. That, and it'll help you understand, because you'll drive yourself mad imagining it instead.

(soft) Wanna go feed popcorn to fish at the pier when I get home? We can stay out as long or as short as you want, or you can sit in the bathtub and I could feed you popcorn instead.

(sighing heavily) you're right. you're right a lot, you know that?

ugh, okay. I guess since you'll be up in Stormbreak missing you from King's End is the same as missing you from here.

(in still a sad voice, but with 2% more adorable ) ...i wanna be the fish.

(sing-song) baaaaaaaaaaaaabe, I miss you. How's Stormbreak? Did I mention I miss you?

oh also, this part is NSFW sooo

(a pause, then gleefully and loudly)

WE'RE MARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(bubbly, but softer) I hope things are going well up there, though. I know it can't be easy.

xoxoxoxooxoxoxox
your WIFE