flora
Flora exhales slowly, shifting just enough to rest her cheek fully against Jack's chest. "Remi said he was afraid to leave Ronin alone for too long," she murmurs, the words curling at the edges with something close to resignation. "So who knows what kind of mindset he’s in." Because the thing about Ronin was that when he loses someone, he doesn’t just grieve. He destroys. And if Remi is worried about what his husband might do if left to his own devices, then it means he’s already seen the cracks forming. Not that Flora needed to tell Jack that; Jack, who'd actually been there when Remi and Ronin had first come to Torchline after Aoife's death.
"I'd only just started hanging out with Seren again," she says, and gods, doesn’t that feel surreal? How do you go from sharing drinks with someone one week to planning their funeral the next? Flora licks her lips, absently twisting the blanket between her fingers.
"Do you think it was the Void or the Family?" She asks, twisting enough to peer up at Jack. As a sister, the question is dripping with vindictiveness, but as a queen, it is pure, ice-cold strategy. Because if it was the Void, then Torchline wasn't as secure as they thought, which meant the other regions were absolutely fucked. If it was the Family, then this wasn’t just an attack, but likely some sort of statement. But saying what? Another warning to the Taliesins? Something to do with Safrin? Something Seren had done?
"I'd only just started hanging out with Seren again," she says, and gods, doesn’t that feel surreal? How do you go from sharing drinks with someone one week to planning their funeral the next? Flora licks her lips, absently twisting the blanket between her fingers.
"Do you think it was the Void or the Family?" She asks, twisting enough to peer up at Jack. As a sister, the question is dripping with vindictiveness, but as a queen, it is pure, ice-cold strategy. Because if it was the Void, then Torchline wasn't as secure as they thought, which meant the other regions were absolutely fucked. If it was the Family, then this wasn’t just an attack, but likely some sort of statement. But saying what? Another warning to the Taliesins? Something to do with Safrin? Something Seren had done?
How can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?
Will you still want me when I'm nothing new?
Will you still want me when I'm nothing new?
