slow down, you're doing fine
Flora beams at him, the warmth of it rising like a tide she couldn’t stop even if she tried. "Sure seemed to work on you," she echoes back at him with a softened lilt, leaning into his side in a quiet, intimate sweep of affection that says more than words ever could. If not for the obstacle of the table in front of them, she would already be in his lap, curled into him with the complete lack of hesitation that has always been her first instinct where he’s concerned. Alas, manners and the table lip keep her in place.
When Kaisel claims there’s something he doesn’t know, she blinks up at him with a whole exaggerated comedy of confusion, bracing herself for some dramatic GOTCHA moment she’s certain doesn’t exist—well, except for Jack’s telepathy, but that is a secret too sharp to touch—and then he continues, and her grin blooms wide enough to lift her entire face, her aqua eyes sparkling with a twin flame of amusement and love. "Mmm, you’re right," she says, drawing out the words with mock gravity. "You caught me. I have been hiding those things from you." Her fingers drum idly against his leg, her voice dipping into something almost coy even as joy rounds every syllable. "Unfortunately, those are answers only my husband will ever get to find out."
The smile that takes her over is so wide it nearly breaks her ability to speak, her whole body buoyant with delight at even the mere shadow of the idea. The single word unfurls inside her with such brightness she half expects the lamps overhead to flicker in response.
When he suggests upgrading to a lake’s worth of orange juice, she shakes her head with a soft snort. "I don’t want to be greedy," she teases, then flashes the server her most innocent smile in return for the woman’s exasperated stare before turning fully back to Kai, contentment settling over her like a warm blanket.
"Yeah," she says of his musings about the Grounds, fingers brushing lightly over the edge of the menu without really seeing it. "It seems so weird that no one ever talks about it, you know?" Her brows draw together with thoughtful curiosity as she goes on. "Like..Ronin and Remi, and Deimos and Sunjata, and my mother....they were all from somewhere else." She gives her head a small, almost disbelieving shake. "I can’t even imagine what that must have been like."
When Kaisel claims there’s something he doesn’t know, she blinks up at him with a whole exaggerated comedy of confusion, bracing herself for some dramatic GOTCHA moment she’s certain doesn’t exist—well, except for Jack’s telepathy, but that is a secret too sharp to touch—and then he continues, and her grin blooms wide enough to lift her entire face, her aqua eyes sparkling with a twin flame of amusement and love. "Mmm, you’re right," she says, drawing out the words with mock gravity. "You caught me. I have been hiding those things from you." Her fingers drum idly against his leg, her voice dipping into something almost coy even as joy rounds every syllable. "Unfortunately, those are answers only my husband will ever get to find out."
The smile that takes her over is so wide it nearly breaks her ability to speak, her whole body buoyant with delight at even the mere shadow of the idea. The single word unfurls inside her with such brightness she half expects the lamps overhead to flicker in response.
When he suggests upgrading to a lake’s worth of orange juice, she shakes her head with a soft snort. "I don’t want to be greedy," she teases, then flashes the server her most innocent smile in return for the woman’s exasperated stare before turning fully back to Kai, contentment settling over her like a warm blanket.
"Yeah," she says of his musings about the Grounds, fingers brushing lightly over the edge of the menu without really seeing it. "It seems so weird that no one ever talks about it, you know?" Her brows draw together with thoughtful curiosity as she goes on. "Like..Ronin and Remi, and Deimos and Sunjata, and my mother....they were all from somewhere else." She gives her head a small, almost disbelieving shake. "I can’t even imagine what that must have been like."
Flora
you can't be everything you wanna be before your time
