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It's just a turn of phrase, the way Astaroth had called her darling, but gods if the way Jack called her love didn't send a velvet ripple up her spine. "Maybe that's what you can ask Safrin for, once you take me on a date." The Doubletake suggests with a smirk.
Because no, Jack, fucking her at a brothel hadn't counted as a date.
"I don't know. They did some...testing with this ball my sister was given—" That sister being the demigoddess Seren, just in case we're keeping track, hence how Flora knew to tell Jack what abilities of his were useful and which weren't. "—but other than that I have no idea." While Flora was absolutely nosy enough to wonder what was being done on Team High and Mighty, she was also more than happy to simply stay in her lane as a measly mortal and lowly queen and let those with the talents necessary to fight the battle do so.
Because no, Jack, fucking her at a brothel hadn't counted as a date.
"I don't know. They did some...testing with this ball my sister was given—" That sister being the demigoddess Seren, just in case we're keeping track, hence how Flora knew to tell Jack what abilities of his were useful and which weren't. "—but other than that I have no idea." While Flora was absolutely nosy enough to wonder what was being done on Team High and Mighty, she was also more than happy to simply stay in her lane as a measly mortal and lowly queen and let those with the talents necessary to fight the battle do so.
