Flora
"Mmmm. We're still the only region whose actually met with the Family, though." Flora points out, sitting a touch taller at Jack's side. There was no way to keep their personal and professional lives separate, not with a family like theirs, but in the midst of their family drama it felt good to posture herself as one of the best queens that Torchline had ever had.
Brushing her fingers against Jack's as his hand covers hers, while Flora's posture might suggest she was relaxed and at ease, her mind thrummed with tension as her mental fingers cocked the hammer of a gun pointed directly at her parents. Something about the way they'd come back all cheerful and how quick they were to offer up wholesale apologies had made the Doubletake suspicious, and that was before Jack's fingers brushed against her ring. She'd almost rather it have heated up; knowing that Remi had been intentionally vague in his apology was somehow worse than if he'd just come right out and lied. Still, there was no way to call him on it without outing Jack, so she merely stowed away the words the Bastion had used for later dissection when she and the captain were alone.
Given her mood, one might have expected Flora's response to be immediate and snarky. A succinct yep that was the verbal equivalent of giving her Dads the finger. Instead, as she gazed up at Jack, her mind easily able to fill in the blue of his eyes even hidden behind his sunglasses, Flora felt the fluttering of butterflies in her stomach that immediately softened the hard line of her lips into a smile that grew by degrees. "I really am." She whispers softly, forgetting about the presence of her family for a moment as she nibbles at the inside of her lip to keep her smile from properly running away with her.
Brushing her fingers against Jack's as his hand covers hers, while Flora's posture might suggest she was relaxed and at ease, her mind thrummed with tension as her mental fingers cocked the hammer of a gun pointed directly at her parents. Something about the way they'd come back all cheerful and how quick they were to offer up wholesale apologies had made the Doubletake suspicious, and that was before Jack's fingers brushed against her ring. She'd almost rather it have heated up; knowing that Remi had been intentionally vague in his apology was somehow worse than if he'd just come right out and lied. Still, there was no way to call him on it without outing Jack, so she merely stowed away the words the Bastion had used for later dissection when she and the captain were alone.
Given her mood, one might have expected Flora's response to be immediate and snarky. A succinct yep that was the verbal equivalent of giving her Dads the finger. Instead, as she gazed up at Jack, her mind easily able to fill in the blue of his eyes even hidden behind his sunglasses, Flora felt the fluttering of butterflies in her stomach that immediately softened the hard line of her lips into a smile that grew by degrees. "I really am." She whispers softly, forgetting about the presence of her family for a moment as she nibbles at the inside of her lip to keep her smile from properly running away with her.
I don't like slow motion double vision in rose blush
I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush
I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush
Code stolen from Queen Sky
