you put me on & said i was your favourite
Flora lets out a laugh, but it’s a brittle thing, dulled by too many what-ifs and the sharp edges of memory. "Calling Jack an overthinker is putting too dull a point on it," she mutters, brushing her curls back as the wind stirs them again. "He doesn’t say things by accident. Not ever." If he’d meant to hurt her, he had. If he hadn’t—well, that was almost worse, wasn’t it?
But then Sohalia squeezes her arm and the tension leaks out of her in a breath she hadn’t meant to hold. "You’re the absolute best," Flora sighs, letting herself wilt sideways until her shoulder nudges warmly against her friend’s. "Okay. Soooo! How did things end with you and Koa at the—?"
The question dies before it’s finished.
Below them, the water shifts with a strange heaviness, surface darkening not with dusk, but with something deeper. Wronger. A tremble in the current catches her eye, and then—there—movement just beneath the waves. Sleek shapes weaving through the shallows, flickers of inky black outlined only when they break the surface. One leaps, playfully, impossibly close to the bridge.
For a moment it looks almost like an encantado.
Then it vanishes beneath the surface again, and the laughter that follows is nothing like a dolphin’s.
Flora stiffens, eyes scanning the water as the sea starts to churn in earnest. "Uhh..." she murmurs, every hair on the back of her neck standing on end, "did you just see that..?"
Enshadowed Delphinids (common): Once playful Encantados, touched by the void, transform into Enshadowed Delphinids. Their vibrant pink hues now give way to an inky blackness that seems to absorb light, rendering them nearly invisible in the depths of the ocean. The mischievous nature remains, but their water magic takes on an eerie void-touched quality, capable of stirring storms and unsettling the balance of the sea. The Enshadowed Delphinids dance on the boundary between whimsical chaos and the darker currents of the void.
But then Sohalia squeezes her arm and the tension leaks out of her in a breath she hadn’t meant to hold. "You’re the absolute best," Flora sighs, letting herself wilt sideways until her shoulder nudges warmly against her friend’s. "Okay. Soooo! How did things end with you and Koa at the—?"
The question dies before it’s finished.
Below them, the water shifts with a strange heaviness, surface darkening not with dusk, but with something deeper. Wronger. A tremble in the current catches her eye, and then—there—movement just beneath the waves. Sleek shapes weaving through the shallows, flickers of inky black outlined only when they break the surface. One leaps, playfully, impossibly close to the bridge.
For a moment it looks almost like an encantado.
Then it vanishes beneath the surface again, and the laughter that follows is nothing like a dolphin’s.
Flora stiffens, eyes scanning the water as the sea starts to churn in earnest. "Uhh..." she murmurs, every hair on the back of her neck standing on end, "did you just see that..?"
Enshadowed Delphinids (common): Once playful Encantados, touched by the void, transform into Enshadowed Delphinids. Their vibrant pink hues now give way to an inky blackness that seems to absorb light, rendering them nearly invisible in the depths of the ocean. The mischievous nature remains, but their water magic takes on an eerie void-touched quality, capable of stirring storms and unsettling the balance of the sea. The Enshadowed Delphinids dance on the boundary between whimsical chaos and the darker currents of the void.
