you look like my next mistake
"Well, the normal ones are just will-o-wisps," Flora murmurs at Jack's side. "They're about as dangerous as anything else in the Greatwood is." Which of course meant they could be extremely dangerous if you weren't paying attention, though will-o-wisps were more likely to lead you into the river where you were liable to drown yourself than to be actively hostile. "Those, though..." Void-touched as they were, quite what sorts of tricks they had at their disposal Flora couldn't even guess at.
"Oh?" Fluttering her lashes up at him as they turn around, the queen chuckles under her breath. "Sorry, I forgot to mention it sooner, what with us almost breaking up and all." Rolling her eyes affectionately and tucking herself even more tightly against his side, Flora fights the urge to glance over her shoulder to see if they're still being followed.
"Yeah I'm fine, we were talking about the fact that he wanted us to write a poem about him and as soon as I made one up he just...was there." There's no need to elaborate on the shards of ice that had skewered through the queen at the time, because she felt fragments of them now just thinking about it. Vox was perhaps the least scary of all the members of the Family, but having been murdered by one not so terribly far away from where she'd encountered him, the similarities were far too large to be ignored.
"Oh?" Fluttering her lashes up at him as they turn around, the queen chuckles under her breath. "Sorry, I forgot to mention it sooner, what with us almost breaking up and all." Rolling her eyes affectionately and tucking herself even more tightly against his side, Flora fights the urge to glance over her shoulder to see if they're still being followed.
"Yeah I'm fine, we were talking about the fact that he wanted us to write a poem about him and as soon as I made one up he just...was there." There's no need to elaborate on the shards of ice that had skewered through the queen at the time, because she felt fragments of them now just thinking about it. Vox was perhaps the least scary of all the members of the Family, but having been murdered by one not so terribly far away from where she'd encountered him, the similarities were far too large to be ignored.
