// now I've been crazy, couldn't you tell? //
That was certainly news to Maea, and she said as much. "I had no idea. I thought you were always in Torchline..." Come to think of it, she didn't even know who Flora's mother was. Whatever must have occurred for Remi to approach a woman at all, when he'd been with Ronin for so many years at this point? Questions were crowding in, none of them her business at all - nor did it really matter. At least it explained why Flora would have risked so much for another region; more, she thought, than even Vi's Roses warranted.
Jack's name was vaguely familiar, though she couldn't quite place it. "Who is he?" she asked, accepting her drink when it was passed along. Lazy coils of steam rose into the air and scattered in the draft of milling bodies. A careless sip revealed it to be both hot and well-spiced, leaving a burn on her tongue and a pleasant glow in her throat as it went down.
"I was told to learn about your experience in coming back to life," she explained simply. "What you felt, how you adjusted... as my Shii will need to go through all that, too." Her own experiences were only that, after all, and her eagerness to retrieve her soul-bonded blinded her to possible pitfalls or sides to revival that she had not - could not - understand on her own. "If you want to talk about it. If you don't, I understand. It is... not an easy topic, even between close friends."
Jack's name was vaguely familiar, though she couldn't quite place it. "Who is he?" she asked, accepting her drink when it was passed along. Lazy coils of steam rose into the air and scattered in the draft of milling bodies. A careless sip revealed it to be both hot and well-spiced, leaving a burn on her tongue and a pleasant glow in her throat as it went down.
"I was told to learn about your experience in coming back to life," she explained simply. "What you felt, how you adjusted... as my Shii will need to go through all that, too." Her own experiences were only that, after all, and her eagerness to retrieve her soul-bonded blinded her to possible pitfalls or sides to revival that she had not - could not - understand on her own. "If you want to talk about it. If you don't, I understand. It is... not an easy topic, even between close friends."
Maea
// I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell //
