i could be the reason you can't sleep at night
Wrinkling her nose, Flora shakes her head. Power, definitely. Killing with a thought? Sure. Being king? lmao never. But control over the seas? Having a ship that could sail through the skies anytime he wanted, disappear at the snap of his fingers? Telepathy that was easier to control, more vast and stronger?
Snorting, Flora flicks her eyes up and though her lips don't actually move, for a moment there's at least a breath of levity in her expression. "There is. All the demigods that you love interacting with so much." She says with another little roll of her eyes. Those were the immortals he now got to go toe and toe with and while they'd age, they'd stay just as hard to kill.
"It just feels...different." Stubbornly said, perhaps later Flora would realize that having grown up with immortal parents and having heard often enough about how if one ever lost their immortality the other would foresake their own as well, the Doubletake just had it ingrained in her that a lifetime wasn't supposed to be all enough. It was all or nothing; forever in Caido, or reunited in Mort's realm.
Turning, she watches the captain's first wobbly steps, thinking he looked not unlike a fawn trying to stumble away from its mother. The thought should have made her smile, but instead it only widened the cavern of despair that tugged at her boots, encouraging her to throw herself into it. Grabbing her bag and trotting a few steps to catch up to him, Flora reluctantly wraps her arm around his waist to try and hold him slightly more steady.
Snorting, Flora flicks her eyes up and though her lips don't actually move, for a moment there's at least a breath of levity in her expression. "There is. All the demigods that you love interacting with so much." She says with another little roll of her eyes. Those were the immortals he now got to go toe and toe with and while they'd age, they'd stay just as hard to kill.
"It just feels...different." Stubbornly said, perhaps later Flora would realize that having grown up with immortal parents and having heard often enough about how if one ever lost their immortality the other would foresake their own as well, the Doubletake just had it ingrained in her that a lifetime wasn't supposed to be all enough. It was all or nothing; forever in Caido, or reunited in Mort's realm.
Turning, she watches the captain's first wobbly steps, thinking he looked not unlike a fawn trying to stumble away from its mother. The thought should have made her smile, but instead it only widened the cavern of despair that tugged at her boots, encouraging her to throw herself into it. Grabbing her bag and trotting a few steps to catch up to him, Flora reluctantly wraps her arm around his waist to try and hold him slightly more steady.
