i'd wipe the dirt off your name with the shirt off my back
"You did take me to the Greatwood where Pierce found me..." Flora whispers cautiously, not quite believing that it could be true, but then, she'd never have expected her own mother to tear her away from her home so violently. "Maybe you were collateral damage." Though she felt the way he shifted to peer down at her, Flora couldn't pull her cheek away from his chest to meet his gaze. "And...I was infected if you remember." As for Hadama? Maybe it was his gravity magic that protected him, or Safrin. Or maybe he was in on it. He had been more than happy for Torchline to keep trading with King's End, after all.
Forcing herself to move, to straighten and twist enough to be able to meet the brightening blue of Jack's eyes as the sun began to appear over the horizon line, Flora inhaled shakily as her tired eyes began to brim with tears. "I feel like I'm going crazy, Jack." Indeed the firm foundation of her mind was all but gone, clawed through by large violet furrows that revealed not bedrock, but an endless pit of confusion.
Forcing herself to move, to straighten and twist enough to be able to meet the brightening blue of Jack's eyes as the sun began to appear over the horizon line, Flora inhaled shakily as her tired eyes began to brim with tears. "I feel like I'm going crazy, Jack." Indeed the firm foundation of her mind was all but gone, clawed through by large violet furrows that revealed not bedrock, but an endless pit of confusion.
