you look like my next mistake
Kicking out her foot over the drop, Flora nods. Rather than letting her mind stray to the places it otherwise would have—mental overtures where Jack said how she'd changed him, about how he wanted her and all of the other sweet nothings that girls with daddy issues longed to hear—the Doubletake did her best to listen intently to his words and to let their meanings fill her mind instead.
"You liked it because it gave you an in." Flora ventures, looking at Jack through her eyebrows before smirking. "If I'd had it handed to me or just filled an empty space the way the others had, there'd have been no need for you." For us, her mind tries to supply, and while that was certainly true as well, something about the word felt both hollow and suffocating.
"And then..?"
"You liked it because it gave you an in." Flora ventures, looking at Jack through her eyebrows before smirking. "If I'd had it handed to me or just filled an empty space the way the others had, there'd have been no need for you." For us, her mind tries to supply, and while that was certainly true as well, something about the word felt both hollow and suffocating.
"And then..?"
