flora
Flora’s grin flashes bright enough to belong somewhere much warmer than Halo, all aqua-eyed mischief and snow-bright triumph as she nods at Melita like, yes, obviously they have both survived something terribly athletic and therefore deserve immediate praise, applause, and probably compensation. "Honestly? It went way better than I thought it would," she says, because as much as she would love to pretend she’d had absolute faith in the whole thing from the start, she is not currently trying to lie through her teeth while wearing a ring that would burn her finger off for doing so. "I am hella sore though, so this was the perfect idea."
Following Melita into Safrin’s Mirror in a black bikini that feels scandalously inadequate against Halo’s biting air until the hotspring swallows her in glittering warmth, Flora lets out a long, indulgent sigh as the magic-laced heat slips over her skin and starts unthreading every ache skijoring had apparently stitched into muscles she’d been pretty confident she hadn’t owned yesterday. Her blonde curls are piled messily atop her head, gold jewellery glinting against steam-damp skin as the starlit water twinkles around her, and as she sinks down with the kind of blissful expression usually reserved for expensive wine, divine compliments, or perfectly timed gossip, she flashes Melita a look so mischievous it practically has little devil horns.
"Okay, soooo," Flora begins, drawing the word out as she leans back against the stone and lifts one hand from the water, droplets sliding from her fingers like tiny stars falling back into Safrin’s Mirror. "I called to Safrin basically just looking for some sort of item, because people have been shady AF lately and I wanted to try and combat that, and she basically said there weren’t enough items in the world to do what I wanted." Her eyebrows lift slightly. "Which I thought was just her way of saying no, right? Like, okay, cool, love that for me, but then she started saying how it was such a shame that there wasn’t a Safrin demi ruling Torchline anymore, and so I thought she meant she wanted to appoint someone to co-rule. But then.."
Flora lets that hang for just a moment before her smile sharpens into something bright and delighted as she bounces her eyebrows at Melita, because given that Mel already knows the ending, there's no use in drawing it out. "Kai was super happy for me, obviously. My dads were real assholes about it, though."
Following Melita into Safrin’s Mirror in a black bikini that feels scandalously inadequate against Halo’s biting air until the hotspring swallows her in glittering warmth, Flora lets out a long, indulgent sigh as the magic-laced heat slips over her skin and starts unthreading every ache skijoring had apparently stitched into muscles she’d been pretty confident she hadn’t owned yesterday. Her blonde curls are piled messily atop her head, gold jewellery glinting against steam-damp skin as the starlit water twinkles around her, and as she sinks down with the kind of blissful expression usually reserved for expensive wine, divine compliments, or perfectly timed gossip, she flashes Melita a look so mischievous it practically has little devil horns.
"Okay, soooo," Flora begins, drawing the word out as she leans back against the stone and lifts one hand from the water, droplets sliding from her fingers like tiny stars falling back into Safrin’s Mirror. "I called to Safrin basically just looking for some sort of item, because people have been shady AF lately and I wanted to try and combat that, and she basically said there weren’t enough items in the world to do what I wanted." Her eyebrows lift slightly. "Which I thought was just her way of saying no, right? Like, okay, cool, love that for me, but then she started saying how it was such a shame that there wasn’t a Safrin demi ruling Torchline anymore, and so I thought she meant she wanted to appoint someone to co-rule. But then.."
Flora lets that hang for just a moment before her smile sharpens into something bright and delighted as she bounces her eyebrows at Melita, because given that Mel already knows the ending, there's no use in drawing it out. "Kai was super happy for me, obviously. My dads were real assholes about it, though."
The rumors are terrible and cruel
But honey, most of them are true
But honey, most of them are true
