your smile fades in the summer

flora

'Wh--" Nearly stumbling over her own feet as Jack's fingers close around her arm, Flora's thoughts are instantly skeptical as her eyes narrow. It's only the satin-y purr of the captain's magic as it envelopes the wyrm that holds her tongue, before she sees something opaque out of the corner of her eye falling and shattering on the cavern floor. Looking down with a frown the queen clears her throat before shooting Jack a slanted smile. "Gross, thanks." She murmurs, wrinkling her nose and stepping over the wyrm to continue at Jack's side.

Tugging a container out from her bag, Flora drops to her hands and knees before dipping it into the hot spring with a satisfied little smile. "Is that so?" The Doubletake wonders, and had it been anyone else she was speaking to, there would have been a good deal more playful accusation in her tone. Given that it was Jack, though...if he said Aurelia had wished it, it was probably true if for no other reason than trying to make Flora jealous was a dangerous line for even him to walk.

"She what?" Looking up sharply over her shoulder, Flora's eyes widen. "She didn't fucking mention that." About being queen. "That must have been before I even moved here.." When Flora had been a child younger she'd hung around with Maeve quite a bit, but she'd been leading on her own in those days.

But why hadn't Aurelia mentioned it?

i scream for whatever it's worth
"i love you" ain't that the worst thing you've ever heard?

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!