I couldn't utter my love when it counted
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
"Oh, she's great," Koa agrees brightly, and were he Accepted he would certainly be wagging a golden retriever tail at the thought of his friend. "I never spent a ton of time with her before, but we've bene talking a lot more since... y'know, everything." The void, the stormcloud that crosses his face for a slightest moment fills in.
Once again Koa shrugs, suddenly bashful at the memory of his childhood aspirations. "Yeah, well... I really like animals," he mumbles in explanation, pausing to take another sip of his wine. He falters further at Flora's next comment, returning the squeeze between their hands with a grateful one of his own. "It's not that I always wanted to, so much as I was always going to? I basically lived at the Nest, and I was good at fighting, and my mom was a Captain and I guess it just... was kind of a given, that I'd be a Dragoon. The only time I thought seriously about doing something else was when I was a teenager, but then the war happened and..."
And his mother had died, and suddenly all Koa had left of her was a legacy to protect.
His throat bobs as he swallows down the lump rising within it, and the smile he offers down to Flora is only slightly forced. "What about you? Did you always plan to be Queen of Torchline? You must've had other childhood dreams."
Once again Koa shrugs, suddenly bashful at the memory of his childhood aspirations. "Yeah, well... I really like animals," he mumbles in explanation, pausing to take another sip of his wine. He falters further at Flora's next comment, returning the squeeze between their hands with a grateful one of his own. "It's not that I always wanted to, so much as I was always going to? I basically lived at the Nest, and I was good at fighting, and my mom was a Captain and I guess it just... was kind of a given, that I'd be a Dragoon. The only time I thought seriously about doing something else was when I was a teenager, but then the war happened and..."
And his mother had died, and suddenly all Koa had left of her was a legacy to protect.
His throat bobs as he swallows down the lump rising within it, and the smile he offers down to Flora is only slightly forced. "What about you? Did you always plan to be Queen of Torchline? You must've had other childhood dreams."
Koa
And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
totally sniped from odd ilu
