yeah I got heartbreak that I reminisce about
Flora wrinkles her nose affectionately beneath the mask, the expression softened by the glow in her cheeks and the warmth still lingering in her veins. She isn’t to know, not yet, how short-lived these bright, reckless good times will be, but in the moment she’s nothing if not elated—dizzy with the sweetness of being back in Jack’s orbit and the comfort of Soh’s arm through her own.
"Speaking of a good time…" Flora drawls with a grin, leaning to nudge her best friend’s shoulder. Her curls bounce with the motion, the lanternlight catching on their edges as she tips her head toward the distant music pulsing faintly through the trees. "What do you say we refill our glasses and see if we can find a song worth dancing to?"
The smile she flashes is dazzling, wide enough to banish every will-o-wisp shadow from the woods around them, and with a little tug on Sohalia’s arm she leads the way back toward the lights and laughter of the masquerade, already bright with the promise of another memory worth making.
And with that, the forest fades behind them, the night carrying them forward into music and champagne and whatever trouble might still wait in the clearing. Dragons and roses, as it turned out.
~FIN
"Speaking of a good time…" Flora drawls with a grin, leaning to nudge her best friend’s shoulder. Her curls bounce with the motion, the lanternlight catching on their edges as she tips her head toward the distant music pulsing faintly through the trees. "What do you say we refill our glasses and see if we can find a song worth dancing to?"
The smile she flashes is dazzling, wide enough to banish every will-o-wisp shadow from the woods around them, and with a little tug on Sohalia’s arm she leads the way back toward the lights and laughter of the masquerade, already bright with the promise of another memory worth making.
And with that, the forest fades behind them, the night carrying them forward into music and champagne and whatever trouble might still wait in the clearing. Dragons and roses, as it turned out.
~FIN
some real big things I still gotta figure out
