slow down, you're doing fine
Flora’s attention lingers just long enough between the two of them to map their affections properly this time, before the scream cuts through it before she can do anything else. It hits sharp and wrong, slicing straight through the Dusklight’s walls like they aren’t even there, and Flora flinches hard enough that her shoulders jump, both hands flying up to clamp over her ears as if she can physically shove the sound back out of her head. "Gods, I wish that would let up," she groans, the words muffled against her palms before she drops them again, shaking her head like she can rattle the echo loose, her curls bouncing messily with the motion.
Exhaling sharply through her nose, Flora drags herself back into the room with the two of them, the moment slotting back into place as Kiada keeps talking and the normalcy of it—snacks, timelines, Asta being Asta—steadies the edges of it all. The Doubletake's mouth curves despite herself at that, a soft snicker escaping as she nods, the motion quick and knowing. "I sure do," she agrees, the familiarity of it easy, like it’s a shared joke she doesn’t need to explain.
At the offer to wait, her grin brightens immediately. "Thanks! I will." She tips her head toward the door as she reaches for it, brows lifting in a playful bounce as she nudges it open. "I promise not to touch anything important," she adds, which is only mostly a joke, her smile flashing once more toward them before she slips inside and waits for Danta to come back.
~FIN
Exhaling sharply through her nose, Flora drags herself back into the room with the two of them, the moment slotting back into place as Kiada keeps talking and the normalcy of it—snacks, timelines, Asta being Asta—steadies the edges of it all. The Doubletake's mouth curves despite herself at that, a soft snicker escaping as she nods, the motion quick and knowing. "I sure do," she agrees, the familiarity of it easy, like it’s a shared joke she doesn’t need to explain.
At the offer to wait, her grin brightens immediately. "Thanks! I will." She tips her head toward the door as she reaches for it, brows lifting in a playful bounce as she nudges it open. "I promise not to touch anything important," she adds, which is only mostly a joke, her smile flashing once more toward them before she slips inside and waits for Danta to come back.
~FIN
Flora
you can't be everything you wanna be before your time
