& if you never bleed you're never gonna grow
Time slows again, and gods but the way the moment stretches out feels like both a blessing as much as a punishment.
—switch your—
Flora has just enough time to think about explaining that she wasn't disappearing so much as running because deep down, she was just as much of a coward as she'd made Koa out to be. Only he didn't have an illustrious family name to fall back on and demigods at his beck and call outside of channeling, so it was much easier for her to run and to call it leading. He only had the workings of his hands to deal with a queen and lover gone, a city in shambles, and gods if that wasn't something Flora should have said she completely understood.
—partn—
Inhaling shakily as his lips pressed against her knuckles, she recalled with suddenly tangible ferocity how the scritch of his unshaven skin had felt against the soft skin of her thighs, how his copper eyes had shone in the candlelight, and how they'd both laughed like children once they'd been able to breathe against the force of their first coupling.
—ers!—
And then he was gone, tugged toward someone else who was already looping her arms around his neck and holding him close, just as someone was trying to do to her.
~FIN
—switch your—
Flora has just enough time to think about explaining that she wasn't disappearing so much as running because deep down, she was just as much of a coward as she'd made Koa out to be. Only he didn't have an illustrious family name to fall back on and demigods at his beck and call outside of channeling, so it was much easier for her to run and to call it leading. He only had the workings of his hands to deal with a queen and lover gone, a city in shambles, and gods if that wasn't something Flora should have said she completely understood.
—partn—
Inhaling shakily as his lips pressed against her knuckles, she recalled with suddenly tangible ferocity how the scritch of his unshaven skin had felt against the soft skin of her thighs, how his copper eyes had shone in the candlelight, and how they'd both laughed like children once they'd been able to breathe against the force of their first coupling.
—ers!—
And then he was gone, tugged toward someone else who was already looping her arms around his neck and holding him close, just as someone was trying to do to her.
~FIN
