i'd wipe the dirt off your name with the shirt off my back
Swallowing, Flora presses her eyes closed as she lets herself slump against Jack's chest, tucking her chin as if she might just melt into the blankets and the warmth of him. Striding slowly through the still-dark corridors of her mind, Flora forces herself into the memory of standing on the beach, of the Valkyrie slamming into her from the skies. Though Hotaru's voice was perhaps more shrill in Flora's mind, the desperation was genuine, as were the demigod's demands. "She wanted me to go with her...but her magic...it doesn't work as well if it isn't something you'd normally do." For a few moments, Jack had been her tether to safety, if only because of Flora's unwillingness to simply up and leave him.
"But then the next thing I knew I was on a boat somewhere, and..." Despite the blankets softening Flora's curves and edges, Jack will feel the way her entire body tenses as she forces herself to recall the few seconds of wakefulness she'd experienced; the ferocity in Remi's voice, his calls for Ronin, Hotaru's screams.
"I don't know what she would have done..." It's that admission over and above the kidnapping and deception that has Flora's thoughts shrivelling and blackening at the edges as if every mote of warmth was being sucked out of her. "This whole time...she was infected this whole time."
As was Sunjata, and, if her paranoia was to be believed, so were Remi and Ronin.
So too maybe was Jack.
"But then the next thing I knew I was on a boat somewhere, and..." Despite the blankets softening Flora's curves and edges, Jack will feel the way her entire body tenses as she forces herself to recall the few seconds of wakefulness she'd experienced; the ferocity in Remi's voice, his calls for Ronin, Hotaru's screams.
"I don't know what she would have done..." It's that admission over and above the kidnapping and deception that has Flora's thoughts shrivelling and blackening at the edges as if every mote of warmth was being sucked out of her. "This whole time...she was infected this whole time."
As was Sunjata, and, if her paranoia was to be believed, so were Remi and Ronin.
So too maybe was Jack.
