ditch the clowns, get the crown
Flora doesn’t so much brace as she remembers, a fraction too late, that she should have, her hands flying up toward her ears just as the fuse disappears into flame and the world answers in a crack of sound that feels like it splits the air open, the force of it blooming outward and rattling straight through her ribs as she lets out a startled, breathless laugh that she can’t quite hear, her curls jumping loose around her face as the echo chases itself out over the water.
The recoil hums through the wood beneath her palm, and she squints after the cannonball as it sails, a dark arc against the bright horizon before it drops with an almost anticlimactic kerplunk, swallowed whole by the sea as though it hadn’t just announced itself like a thunderclap, and Flora tilts her head slightly, lips pressing together in a considering line that lasts all of half a heartbeat before it breaks again into something far more dangerous.
Her hands fall away from her ears as the ringing lingers, laughter still caught somewhere between her throat and the air, and when she turns back to Melita there’s a spark in her gaze that looks less like satisfaction and more like the beginning of a very bad idea dressed up as inspiration. "Okay," she says, her voice pitched just a touch louder than necessary, clearing her throat with exaggerated drama. "I think we can do so much better."
The grin that follows is all teeth and sunlight and trouble as her eyes flick upward, not entirely joking and not entirely serious in a way that’s very much her, chin tipping as she draws out the next words like a challenge tossed into the open air. "Safrin?" she calls, sweet as anything and twice as sharp beneath it. "Can you give us a target that’ll really get some attention?"
Flora channels Saffy for a better target >:D
Channeling (Accepted) : Allows an Accepted the opportunity to channel one of the gods during a time of crisis (2x a season). Can be combined with other accepted channeling to increase power. If combined with another mastered channeling, increases the odds of a Big God answering to 15 %
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered | Cost: Action
The recoil hums through the wood beneath her palm, and she squints after the cannonball as it sails, a dark arc against the bright horizon before it drops with an almost anticlimactic kerplunk, swallowed whole by the sea as though it hadn’t just announced itself like a thunderclap, and Flora tilts her head slightly, lips pressing together in a considering line that lasts all of half a heartbeat before it breaks again into something far more dangerous.
Her hands fall away from her ears as the ringing lingers, laughter still caught somewhere between her throat and the air, and when she turns back to Melita there’s a spark in her gaze that looks less like satisfaction and more like the beginning of a very bad idea dressed up as inspiration. "Okay," she says, her voice pitched just a touch louder than necessary, clearing her throat with exaggerated drama. "I think we can do so much better."
The grin that follows is all teeth and sunlight and trouble as her eyes flick upward, not entirely joking and not entirely serious in a way that’s very much her, chin tipping as she draws out the next words like a challenge tossed into the open air. "Safrin?" she calls, sweet as anything and twice as sharp beneath it. "Can you give us a target that’ll really get some attention?"
Flora channels Saffy for a better target >:D
Channeling (Accepted) : Allows an Accepted the opportunity to channel one of the gods during a time of crisis (2x a season). Can be combined with other accepted channeling to increase power. If combined with another mastered channeling, increases the odds of a Big God answering to 15 %
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered | Cost: Action
Flora
baby i'm the one to beat
