marked me like a bloodstain
"There was a time when you would have." Flora sighs softly, though if anything the distance between that Jack and the one she was tangled up against only had her melting against him all the more.
The queen falls asleep almost instantly; it had been a long day and her eyes were just as exhausted from all the tears as her body had been from all the tension. Depending on how long the captain stayed awake or what the precise limits of his magic was, he might be treated to the kaleidoscopic array of Flora's dreams wherein too-bright tableaus sparkled fictitiously.
—A young man with copper skin and copper eyes glancing at the sleeping silhouette of Flora in this exact room, before slipping out of her window.
—A white wedding dress, Flora's laughter, the Ark cluttered with people and merriment. Vows exchanged, I love you now and forever, and a searing flash of heat on her finger.
—A pair of bright green eyes being tugged back through a shining golden gateway, leaving Flora alone in a cabin filled with tea leaves and sunlight.
Too hot from the combination of Jack's body heat and the morning's warmth slipping in through the windowpanes, the queen kicks off the blankets so that her bare skin might find some reprieve.
The queen falls asleep almost instantly; it had been a long day and her eyes were just as exhausted from all the tears as her body had been from all the tension. Depending on how long the captain stayed awake or what the precise limits of his magic was, he might be treated to the kaleidoscopic array of Flora's dreams wherein too-bright tableaus sparkled fictitiously.
—A young man with copper skin and copper eyes glancing at the sleeping silhouette of Flora in this exact room, before slipping out of her window.
—A white wedding dress, Flora's laughter, the Ark cluttered with people and merriment. Vows exchanged, I love you now and forever, and a searing flash of heat on her finger.
—A pair of bright green eyes being tugged back through a shining golden gateway, leaving Flora alone in a cabin filled with tea leaves and sunlight.
Too hot from the combination of Jack's body heat and the morning's warmth slipping in through the windowpanes, the queen kicks off the blankets so that her bare skin might find some reprieve.
