flora
Flora’s eyes widen in a way that’s all sparkle and exaggerated innocence, the kind she wields whenever she feels the faint need to defend someone she loves without turning the moment sharp. She lifts her freshly topped-up wine in both hands, elbows brushing a pillow, and lets out a soft, airy laugh. "That’s why I said he and I should have a conversation about it," she replies, giving the word a gentle, lilting emphasis. Kai would never give her an ultimatum about anything, she's quite sure. Though she could imagine fairly dicey situations where gummy worms were involved.
Flora takes another sip, hiding her smile behind the glass for a moment before lowering it, curls brushing her cheek as she snickers. "Guess we’ll see how persuasive Charlie really is," she says, amusement glinting in her voice. "We did have a whole conversation about Ancients and Attuneds the other day, though, so..."
She stretches her legs slightly beneath the blanket, nudging a pillow with her knee, and listens to the distant hum of the Dusklight beyond the fort. No screams yet. No thuds. No tea being hurled as a defensive projectile, which felt promising. "Well, since we haven’t heard any screams yet, I’m choosing to believe things are going well out there," she says, though it might just be that Kai was already dead. "Kai was going to see if Asta would be interested in you two coming back to Wildering House for a proper LongNight redo."v
Flora takes another sip, hiding her smile behind the glass for a moment before lowering it, curls brushing her cheek as she snickers. "Guess we’ll see how persuasive Charlie really is," she says, amusement glinting in her voice. "We did have a whole conversation about Ancients and Attuneds the other day, though, so..."
She stretches her legs slightly beneath the blanket, nudging a pillow with her knee, and listens to the distant hum of the Dusklight beyond the fort. No screams yet. No thuds. No tea being hurled as a defensive projectile, which felt promising. "Well, since we haven’t heard any screams yet, I’m choosing to believe things are going well out there," she says, though it might just be that Kai was already dead. "Kai was going to see if Asta would be interested in you two coming back to Wildering House for a proper LongNight redo."v
and if you'd never come for me, I might've drowned in the melancholy
I swore my loyalty to me, myself, and I, Right before you lit my sky up
I swore my loyalty to me, myself, and I, Right before you lit my sky up
