your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand
The compliment doesn't warm Flora the way it might normally have done, freely given and genuine as it seemed to be. Instead thanks to the intentional positioning of her thoughts, Flora's mind feels cluttered, and every time she bumps her knees or shins against the furniture she'd piled up over a certain trapdoor, she finds herself that much more unmoored. "Dunno, can you?" Raising her own eyebrows, no doubt Jack will feel the queen's skepticism more easily than he'll see it, especially given the way her eyes fixate a little too hard on the task at hand.
"My nonna used to brew a tea that helped with headaches. Maybe I'll ask Mateo, I'm sure you could mix it with whiskey easily enough." She murmurs offhandedly before moving to stand in front of him. Tilting Jack's chin up, Flora combs her fingers softly back through his hair the way she'd seen him do so many times, studying the way it fell just below his ears. "Yep. You're good to go." Placing the scissors back in the drawer, the queen steps back.
"I will be too, if someone has a pair of shoes I can borrow?" It had been one thing to stomp across hot sand when she'd been fueled by adrenaline and concern, but on the other side of it now, the thought of re-blistering her feet was something she very much wanted to avoid.
"My nonna used to brew a tea that helped with headaches. Maybe I'll ask Mateo, I'm sure you could mix it with whiskey easily enough." She murmurs offhandedly before moving to stand in front of him. Tilting Jack's chin up, Flora combs her fingers softly back through his hair the way she'd seen him do so many times, studying the way it fell just below his ears. "Yep. You're good to go." Placing the scissors back in the drawer, the queen steps back.
"I will be too, if someone has a pair of shoes I can borrow?" It had been one thing to stomp across hot sand when she'd been fueled by adrenaline and concern, but on the other side of it now, the thought of re-blistering her feet was something she very much wanted to avoid.
