flora
All but colliding with the captain, Flora instinctively wraps her arms around him, trying to tug him into her momentum so as not to fall. Breathless she comes to a stop, the sudden drop in temperature sending a chill up her spine that went bone deep and had her wanting to tuck herself against Jack to try and get warm. Instead, fighting against the chattering of her teeth, the queen nods.
Wondering if flying was a new ability Jack had that he hadn't told her about—or if he meant to scamper up a tree the way he did with the masts on the ship—Flora shoves that problem out of her mind, instead turning away and recalling the daggers that she'd thrown once more. Her blades fly toward them as Jack's lightning slices away, and while only one of her haphazardly thrown daggers hits the spider, the lightning strikes true. The spider's legs all sever at once, falling in a twitching circle around a body that begins to sizzle and darken as Jack's lightning ricochets within it. The smell is like burning seafood and ozone, the combination of which has Flora's stomach-turning nearly as much as the twitching arachnid does.
"Gods, as if I needed another reason to hate Halo." The queen complains under her breath, the words a shoddy attempt to conceal the way her hands had begun to shake ever so slightly.
Wondering if flying was a new ability Jack had that he hadn't told her about—or if he meant to scamper up a tree the way he did with the masts on the ship—Flora shoves that problem out of her mind, instead turning away and recalling the daggers that she'd thrown once more. Her blades fly toward them as Jack's lightning slices away, and while only one of her haphazardly thrown daggers hits the spider, the lightning strikes true. The spider's legs all sever at once, falling in a twitching circle around a body that begins to sizzle and darken as Jack's lightning ricochets within it. The smell is like burning seafood and ozone, the combination of which has Flora's stomach-turning nearly as much as the twitching arachnid does.
"Gods, as if I needed another reason to hate Halo." The queen complains under her breath, the words a shoddy attempt to conceal the way her hands had begun to shake ever so slightly.
I'm stupid but I'm clever
I can make a shitshow look a whole lot like forever and ever
I can make a shitshow look a whole lot like forever and ever
