flora
"Deal." Laugh all you want Hadama; come next LongNight, you're going to find yourself sat in front of a mirror with Flora asking you to hold several makeup brushes as she fusses over your contour, you just wait.
"G a s p." Flora murmurs theatrically, her aqua eyes widening with feigned shock. "You know, it was you who broke down that stereotype." She says, lifting a brow. "Not in a bad way, but like, before you Maru never really cared if anyone went down to the mercity. Manta crystals weren't that widely used and we certainly didn't have the canals or the bubblestream." Only once Hadama had taken an interest in politics and bettering the relationship between Torchline's two races had the barriers ultimately come down.
Meeting Hadama's silent challenge with an unwavering smile, the queen simply nodded. "Mhmm. He's gone back now, though." She answers with a shrug. "But, uh, speaking of Stormbreak..." Poking her tongue against the inside of her cheek, Flora realized that perhaps she might have segued into this conversation a bit more gracefully, or at the very least thought ahead of time what she planned to say.
Oh well.
"While you and Maea were out of the room back in the Grounds, when we had that meeting before the ball? I asked Dahlia to come to the Hanged Man to have a drink with me, aanndd...I think she's probably coming this week." Holding up a hand to stave off the king's likely arguments, Flora continues. "I'm going to have backup and a getaway planned, but I figured that...I mean there's so much we don't know about what the Family actually wants or what they're doing here....and maybe she'd tell me over a drink."
"G a s p." Flora murmurs theatrically, her aqua eyes widening with feigned shock. "You know, it was you who broke down that stereotype." She says, lifting a brow. "Not in a bad way, but like, before you Maru never really cared if anyone went down to the mercity. Manta crystals weren't that widely used and we certainly didn't have the canals or the bubblestream." Only once Hadama had taken an interest in politics and bettering the relationship between Torchline's two races had the barriers ultimately come down.
Meeting Hadama's silent challenge with an unwavering smile, the queen simply nodded. "Mhmm. He's gone back now, though." She answers with a shrug. "But, uh, speaking of Stormbreak..." Poking her tongue against the inside of her cheek, Flora realized that perhaps she might have segued into this conversation a bit more gracefully, or at the very least thought ahead of time what she planned to say.
Oh well.
"While you and Maea were out of the room back in the Grounds, when we had that meeting before the ball? I asked Dahlia to come to the Hanged Man to have a drink with me, aanndd...I think she's probably coming this week." Holding up a hand to stave off the king's likely arguments, Flora continues. "I'm going to have backup and a getaway planned, but I figured that...I mean there's so much we don't know about what the Family actually wants or what they're doing here....and maybe she'd tell me over a drink."
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
And now I'm covered in you
