flora
With a mixture of disbelief and apprehension twisting her lips into a grimace, Flora reaches for the parchment. It takes her a moment to be able to read the words as they swim over the page, and several more before she can piece them together with what she remembers her mother saying.
"No," shaking her head, the queen thrusts the note back to Ronin. "You..you're misunderstanding." She begins, before flinching as if she'd been slapped as he says the word infected. Feeling a wave of cold slosh through her belly even as heat roared across her cheeks, Flora begins to shake her head again. "No, she can't be. You're...you're just saying that because you hate her. You've always hated her. She was just worried about me." Her tone shifts from accusatory to pleading, as she draws her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around her shins.
"How could you even know? No one knows when someone is infected."
"No," shaking her head, the queen thrusts the note back to Ronin. "You..you're misunderstanding." She begins, before flinching as if she'd been slapped as he says the word infected. Feeling a wave of cold slosh through her belly even as heat roared across her cheeks, Flora begins to shake her head again. "No, she can't be. You're...you're just saying that because you hate her. You've always hated her. She was just worried about me." Her tone shifts from accusatory to pleading, as she draws her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around her shins.
"How could you even know? No one knows when someone is infected."
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
