flora
Flora hesitates as she watches Nova crumple, the bright, exuberant figure she'd been joking with moments ago now withdrawn into a visibly shaken silence. Her instinct to comfort clashes with the candid bluntness that the infection sharpens, making her words perhaps less gentle than they might otherwise have been.
"I get it," Flora says after a moment, her voice carrying a thread of shared bitterness. She glances away, out over the water, her expression hardening as she thinks back to her own realizations about Jack and his dealings with Safrin. "Finding out sucked for me too." Her tone is flat, the warmth that usually suffused her words tempered by her own unresolved feelings.
"But at least you know that your mom wanted you, and was willing to give Jack whatever she needed to in order to bring you to life, so...there's that." It was better than Flora's origin story which was just a lesson in fertility when it came to two people fucking in Frey's presence. "Neither of my parents wanted me, and now look. I'm a queen."
And infected. And soon to be single (probably), but, y'know.
"I get it," Flora says after a moment, her voice carrying a thread of shared bitterness. She glances away, out over the water, her expression hardening as she thinks back to her own realizations about Jack and his dealings with Safrin. "Finding out sucked for me too." Her tone is flat, the warmth that usually suffused her words tempered by her own unresolved feelings.
"But at least you know that your mom wanted you, and was willing to give Jack whatever she needed to in order to bring you to life, so...there's that." It was better than Flora's origin story which was just a lesson in fertility when it came to two people fucking in Frey's presence. "Neither of my parents wanted me, and now look. I'm a queen."
And infected. And soon to be single (probably), but, y'know.
The rumors are terrible and cruel
But honey, most of them are true
But honey, most of them are true
