flora
Flora's laugh snaps back quick and bright. "Oh right," she shoots at him, grin sharp as it hooks sideways, "as if you need any more."
But then the world is screaming and her brother is falling.
Flora drags her hands from her eyes, blinking hard through the afterimage, and that’s when she sees the botanist sliding, stuttering down the slick path like something skipping frames, wrong and too fast all at once. "Mateo!" She’s moving before the echo lands, boots hitting the incline and catching just enough to keep her upright as she chases after him, balance adjusting instinctively as the ground tries to take her with it. It’s messy, quick, but controlled enough that she doesn’t go down, even as the violet haze thickens and swallows him whole.
The ground levels out sharply, and she stumbles into it with a breath knocked half out of her before spotting him. "Mateo—" She drops beside him, fingers already catching the brim of his bucket hat and pushing it back so she can see his face, her other hand pressing lightly at his cheek as she leans in, eyes scanning fast and sharp. "I STG if you're dead and I have to call the dads down here to bring you back, they're going to kill us both."
But then the world is screaming and her brother is falling.
Flora drags her hands from her eyes, blinking hard through the afterimage, and that’s when she sees the botanist sliding, stuttering down the slick path like something skipping frames, wrong and too fast all at once. "Mateo!" She’s moving before the echo lands, boots hitting the incline and catching just enough to keep her upright as she chases after him, balance adjusting instinctively as the ground tries to take her with it. It’s messy, quick, but controlled enough that she doesn’t go down, even as the violet haze thickens and swallows him whole.
The ground levels out sharply, and she stumbles into it with a breath knocked half out of her before spotting him. "Mateo—" She drops beside him, fingers already catching the brim of his bucket hat and pushing it back so she can see his face, her other hand pressing lightly at his cheek as she leans in, eyes scanning fast and sharp. "I STG if you're dead and I have to call the dads down here to bring you back, they're going to kill us both."
We need love, But all we want is danger
We team up, Then switch sides like a record changer
We team up, Then switch sides like a record changer
