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Finally, and Flora would be wise to quit while she's ahead, this time the Doubletake moves with an uncanny swiftness across the sand, already having dodged and come to a stop before the bolt has even fully melted away. Panting, not simply from the heat or her previous exertions, but because of how tightly each of her muscles was coiled, as she bid herself to breathe, it took a few long seconds for her body to relax enough for her lungs to pull in a full breath. Still, despite the breathlessness and the pain, the exhilaration of triumph is well worth whatever potential price she might have paid had Jack hit her again.
"Maybe I'm getting old." Flora suggests as she glances down, her fingers ghost over the tree-branch-shaped markings that snaked out from the wound on her chest. Her birth-season was Leafchange, perhaps she'd hit 22 and it'd all go downhill from there. Assuming it didn't, the queen fully intended to commit herself to actually training her body. She'd recently sparred with one of the dragoons in Stormbreak, maybe she could make that a regular thing if Jack wasn't interested in playing workout-Ken to her workout-Barbie.
"Maybe I'm getting old." Flora suggests as she glances down, her fingers ghost over the tree-branch-shaped markings that snaked out from the wound on her chest. Her birth-season was Leafchange, perhaps she'd hit 22 and it'd all go downhill from there. Assuming it didn't, the queen fully intended to commit herself to actually training her body. She'd recently sparred with one of the dragoons in Stormbreak, maybe she could make that a regular thing if Jack wasn't interested in playing workout-Ken to her workout-Barbie.
Just walk away, don't make me say
The only words I owe you: I told you so, I told you so
The only words I owe you: I told you so, I told you so
