walk me home in the dead of night
Rolling her eyes a touch self-consciously, Flora can only shrug and murmur a soft thanks. All things considered, the boggart had only gotten in one good hit and had Asta not kept the second one away for as long as he did, things likely would have ended up much worse.
"Right, because Danta would have absolutely believed me if he found out that someone from Torchline just so happened to need help hunting a boggart and then I showed up right at the same time a flock of crows tried to take you out." The queen's words were laced with sarcasm, but only in an effort to hide the fact that despite all of it, how everything had happened, she still did care about the butcher.
Stepping over the log, the overgrown pathway provided a welcome distraction. Looking where she was going kept the queen's eyes from fixating on the scars she could see on the upper portion of Asta's arms, scars she'd previously only felt but never had the occasion to see.
Recalling what he'd told her about Maea and the last time he'd needed to properly cool off, Flora thought maybe it was best to give him one more out. Just in case he'd been trying to be polite in front of Jack. "If you do need to go, though, for any reason...I can make it back. I have my compass."
"Right, because Danta would have absolutely believed me if he found out that someone from Torchline just so happened to need help hunting a boggart and then I showed up right at the same time a flock of crows tried to take you out." The queen's words were laced with sarcasm, but only in an effort to hide the fact that despite all of it, how everything had happened, she still did care about the butcher.
Stepping over the log, the overgrown pathway provided a welcome distraction. Looking where she was going kept the queen's eyes from fixating on the scars she could see on the upper portion of Asta's arms, scars she'd previously only felt but never had the occasion to see.
Recalling what he'd told her about Maea and the last time he'd needed to properly cool off, Flora thought maybe it was best to give him one more out. Just in case he'd been trying to be polite in front of Jack. "If you do need to go, though, for any reason...I can make it back. I have my compass."
