heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another

your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand

"Yeah, like a lot." Flora says, feigning annoyance at having to even clarify with a little roll of her eyes, though the warm glow of colour on her cheeks and the pirate smile on her lips suggests she isn't anything less than thrilled to finally be saying those words out loud. For weeks if not months she'd talked to anyone she could about her feelings for the dragoon; why had no one ever suggested to her that perhaps she should tell him how she felt?

"Yeah, well.." The queen huffs affectionately, her nose scrunching slightly before the gravity of the situation is tugging her eyes away from his and onto the—out, out damn spot—blood staining his collar.

"I'm a virgo planner." Flora interjects with a laugh, squeezing his hand and offering him a crooked smile. if Koa thought that Flora wasn't the sort of girl to dear diary her wedding plans after nothing more than a fleeting glance in a crowded marketplace, he didn't know her very well at all. "That's right, you do, don't you?" Gods, it felt like a million years since she'd received his congratulations and his offer of dinner. So much had happened since then, but perhaps more importantly, so much hadn't. Though Flora was seriously considering Jack's offer of what it might be like to have someone at her side who, though he didn't love her, could give her everything that she wanted. Maybe power and security was better than clutching for some girlish notion of finding the one and living happily ever after, but just now with Koa's had still in hers, it didn't feel quite so far away.

"I think I'd really like that. I could...come up to Stormbreak and meet you? If that's easier..?"