i could be the reason you can't sleep at night
"Ianto." Flora confirms with a grin. "And he has gold in his teeth." She adds, bouncing her eyebrows for good measure. It was all wonderfully absurd but true, which Jack would be able to glean from her thoughts as she imagined a familiar foxy face gnawing at a bit of chicken on the Wishing Wagon's steps.
Snorting under her breath to see small lines of tension appear on the captain's face, Flora releases Jack's hands and instead loops her arms around his neck, rising onto her toes in order to press herself against him at precisely the angle she so often favoured. "Yeah, I'd say it does." She says after a moment of considering, and, having been around Jack long enough to guess at what he was thinking, added, "-but it isn't human, so." Same way he couldn't read the minds of animals that they passed on the streets, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that a hive mind of trees wasn't the sort of thing he could tap into. (Tap, like tapping for maple syrup, get it?)
"We can go toward the river, if seeing the water will make you feel better."
Snorting under her breath to see small lines of tension appear on the captain's face, Flora releases Jack's hands and instead loops her arms around his neck, rising onto her toes in order to press herself against him at precisely the angle she so often favoured. "Yeah, I'd say it does." She says after a moment of considering, and, having been around Jack long enough to guess at what he was thinking, added, "-but it isn't human, so." Same way he couldn't read the minds of animals that they passed on the streets, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that a hive mind of trees wasn't the sort of thing he could tap into. (Tap, like tapping for maple syrup, get it?)
"We can go toward the river, if seeing the water will make you feel better."
