worth something now

flora

Tilting her head, Flora is inclined to say yes, though without knowing how to answer the inevitable question of how, she keeps quiet for a moment. "I mean...I wonder if there's a way to trick them." Her voice dips at that, her blue eyes glancing around furtively as if she might spy a crackle of purple or otherwise see Dahlia's lithe silhouette wandering about. "If we make things seem like something they aren't. You know, calling our meetings birthday parties or something like that, or I don't know, making them think our greatest weakness is vegetables."

It wasn't much, but then Flora had never thought of herself as a great strategist. If there was something to her idea, likely it would take someone else's cleverness to tease it out.

"My dads mentioned about the meeting that you all had." She continues. "Can I ask you something honestly?" Perhaps she had no right given how little she knew the Sword, and if he lied to her or misled her, that was on her for being naive. "Do you really think any of the leaders are going to waste the opportunity to defend their lands, and instead ask one of the gods for a flower?" Having reached level 12 and getting a big god chat The queen was not entirely convinced. "I doubt the Grounds will, and Stormbreak won't. King's End hasn't even started protecting themselves, probably because of the Refuge, so that just leaves you and I." Well, Torchline and Halo.

My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you

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