I'd burn my house down just to hear them scream my name
The voice at her shoulder has Flora turning sharply enough that her curls whip across one cheek, with Ronin's accent being far too distinctive for her to pretend even for a second that it belonged to someone else. Her aqua eyes narrow immediately, the look she gives him bright and edged and already halfway armed. "Well obviously," Flora snaps, before huffing a breath out through her nose and gesturing with the hand holding the ribbon toward the spaces between each rough circle she’s carved into the beach. "This isn’t my first LongNight."
His apology draws her chin up by a fraction, gold glinting at her throat and on her fingers as she folds the ribbon loosely into her palm. Around them, the soldiers keep moving deadfall out of the jungle and onto the sand, but there is a subtle adjustment in the air now, the kind that comes when people try very hard not to look like they’re listening to their queen have an emotionally loaded conversation with one of her fathers in the middle of a beach.
"What, you can’t do both at once?" Flora says, still sharp enough that the words flash when they leave her, though her eyes flick deliberately toward the wood piles rather than away from him. "Talk and help, I mean." Her soldiers were useful, but few compared to a literal demigod who could be in two places at once.
His apology draws her chin up by a fraction, gold glinting at her throat and on her fingers as she folds the ribbon loosely into her palm. Around them, the soldiers keep moving deadfall out of the jungle and onto the sand, but there is a subtle adjustment in the air now, the kind that comes when people try very hard not to look like they’re listening to their queen have an emotionally loaded conversation with one of her fathers in the middle of a beach.
"What, you can’t do both at once?" Flora says, still sharp enough that the words flash when they leave her, though her eyes flick deliberately toward the wood piles rather than away from him. "Talk and help, I mean." Her soldiers were useful, but few compared to a literal demigod who could be in two places at once.
I've carried hopes & heavy day dreams, but i'm all done with sleepin'
