flora
As Safrin departed, Flora finally allows the breath she'd been keeping captive low in her lungs to woosh out, sighing dramatically and loudly before shooting the Tidebreaker an imploring and almost childish look of do we have to do this now? Already knowing the answer—yes of course they did—the queen swallows, shifting into a more comfortable position before nibbling at the inside of her cheek.
"Okay so...there was a caveat to my bargain with Dahlia that I didn't have time to mention before." You know, in between Hadama's paternal fury and his going off to Starfall. "She obviously knew that I wanted her blood for something, so she said if I personally used it, or like..benefited from it, she'd come after those I care about most." Remi and Ronin could likely handle themselves, but Mateo? Sohalia? Jack, who already said he didn't feel safe around her anymore?
Letting her expression crumple, Flora stares down at the ground, nudging a nonexistent bit of debris with the toe of her shoe. "But really, it's no big deal. If we decide to protect the city, I'll just move onto the beach somewhere. And if we decide to protect the coastline, I'll just give up the bar." Infact it was a big deal and the way the words tightly left Flora's lips said as much, but in the big scheme of things one displaced queen was hardly worth the safety of an entire region.
"Okay so...there was a caveat to my bargain with Dahlia that I didn't have time to mention before." You know, in between Hadama's paternal fury and his going off to Starfall. "She obviously knew that I wanted her blood for something, so she said if I personally used it, or like..benefited from it, she'd come after those I care about most." Remi and Ronin could likely handle themselves, but Mateo? Sohalia? Jack, who already said he didn't feel safe around her anymore?
Letting her expression crumple, Flora stares down at the ground, nudging a nonexistent bit of debris with the toe of her shoe. "But really, it's no big deal. If we decide to protect the city, I'll just move onto the beach somewhere. And if we decide to protect the coastline, I'll just give up the bar." Infact it was a big deal and the way the words tightly left Flora's lips said as much, but in the big scheme of things one displaced queen was hardly worth the safety of an entire region.
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
And now I'm covered in you
