He's expecting some sort of wild tale that will perfectly explain everything. Something, anything to rationalize the chaos of her letters. He'd read them over and over since receiving them, trying to find meanings tucked between the lines, answers not so clearly spelled out. It'd proven as useful as trying to decode a secret message without some baseline knowledge of the key though, and after a while it just made his head hurt and weirdly his heart too.
He knows a few things for certain:
1. Flora is mad at him.
This seems to be because she thinks he's spent too much time with Caly and therefore ditched their friendship, despite being told he had not seen Caly in weeks. Also making wishes pisses her off. And trying to play tic-tac-toe when she forgot how. She says he made assumptions and hurt her.
2. Flora has been pretty shit.
Something about fake friends and putting herself first. She also talked to her dead twin????
3. Flora gave the bar to Caly and her siblings.
Is she alright with this? No clue. She did it... so, yeah?
4. Flora is moving.
Still in Torchline, presumably, since she has to rule her kingdom and that's why she can't stay an extra day or two to heal up at King's End.
5. Flora gave him the best gift, in secret.
She has yet to explain why the secret...
So with this in mind, he is completely surprised when Sohalia says that last she talked to Flora, the Doubletake had been fine. Which, maybe meant the letters happened after the last time Soh talked to Flora. Maybe if he knew her better he'd pick up on the ways she's not quite so welcoming, or maybe if he had his thoughts anywhere other than trying to understand what is coming across as insanity to him. "Oh, so not recently then. I see. Well, she sent me all these letters that don't make sense. She said she gave up the bar, and she's moving, and she's not been good, and she's clearly upset Soh." Out of habit he goes to run his hand through his hair, frustration and energy needing to be spent, but all he does is pull off his hood instead and feeling it, drops his hand.
He pauses then, a new idea sparking among the clues. "She did say she was gonna stop letting assholes who are all talk make her feel bad about herself. Did fucking Jack do something again?" Because as far as he knows, everything he's told her has been true, and the last page they'd been on was the one that read, we can't do this again. So the first and only asshole that jumps to mind, is the captain.
He knows a few things for certain:
1. Flora is mad at him.
This seems to be because she thinks he's spent too much time with Caly and therefore ditched their friendship, despite being told he had not seen Caly in weeks. Also making wishes pisses her off. And trying to play tic-tac-toe when she forgot how. She says he made assumptions and hurt her.
2. Flora has been pretty shit.
Something about fake friends and putting herself first. She also talked to her dead twin????
3. Flora gave the bar to Caly and her siblings.
Is she alright with this? No clue. She did it... so, yeah?
4. Flora is moving.
Still in Torchline, presumably, since she has to rule her kingdom and that's why she can't stay an extra day or two to heal up at King's End.
5. Flora gave him the best gift, in secret.
She has yet to explain why the secret...
So with this in mind, he is completely surprised when Sohalia says that last she talked to Flora, the Doubletake had been fine. Which, maybe meant the letters happened after the last time Soh talked to Flora. Maybe if he knew her better he'd pick up on the ways she's not quite so welcoming, or maybe if he had his thoughts anywhere other than trying to understand what is coming across as insanity to him. "Oh, so not recently then. I see. Well, she sent me all these letters that don't make sense. She said she gave up the bar, and she's moving, and she's not been good, and she's clearly upset Soh." Out of habit he goes to run his hand through his hair, frustration and energy needing to be spent, but all he does is pull off his hood instead and feeling it, drops his hand.
He pauses then, a new idea sparking among the clues. "She did say she was gonna stop letting assholes who are all talk make her feel bad about herself. Did fucking Jack do something again?" Because as far as he knows, everything he's told her has been true, and the last page they'd been on was the one that read, we can't do this again. So the first and only asshole that jumps to mind, is the captain.
Kaisel
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
