i'm right where you left me
Flora Kaito-Taliesin
the Doubletake
Owner of The Hanged Man / Queen of Torchline

Age: 22 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 12 - Strg: 41 - Dext: 44 - Endr: 42 - Luck: 45 - Int: 2
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#1
flora

Gasping, Flora awoke suddenly before dawn's fingers had even thought of slipping through the skies toward Torchline's shores. In the darkness of her dreams, she'd whispered I love you, Jack when the captain had asked what it was she was feeling, and after a moment he'd smiled and said it back. She'd dreamed that she'd taken his hand that night on the beach and he'd pulled her into his arms and whispered we'll make it work. I love you. She'd dreamed that he'd showed up at her door the following day, shaking his head and saying that he knew what he wanted, and that it was her. Fresh tears had poured down her cheeks then, and rather than tossing and turning in her bed as she had the previous nights, Flora had thrown back her covers, slipped on her shoes, and walked invisibly toward the lighthouse.

Keeping her eyes purposefully trained on the entrance rather than letting them stray down toward the shoreline where everything had gone so horribly wrong, the Doubletake breezed up the spiral stone stairs before collapsing in front of Safrin's shrine. She'd brought no offerings, not even a match to light the goddess's candles; she hadn't even changed out of her sleeping clothes.

"Please, Safrin.." Knuckles white with tension as she clasped them together, Flora rested her forehead against her hands. She knew what she was asking for wouldn't be enough, but gods it would be a start, and how else was she meant to move on from a man like Jack if not this?



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#2
it's fine to fake it 'till you make it
"Shh, shhh."

Flora will feel the press of Safrin's hand against the back of her head, stroking down her bed-swept curls. "It isn't like you to cry over a man." That it was just like the queen to do exactly that seemed to matter little as the goddess lifted Flora's chin with a finger, her dark gaze peering consolingly into the Doubletake's face.

"Tell me what you need to feel better."
'till you do. 'till it's true.
Flora Kaito-Taliesin
the Doubletake
Owner of The Hanged Man / Queen of Torchline

Age: 22 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 12 - Strg: 41 - Dext: 44 - Endr: 42 - Luck: 45 - Int: 2
SPICE - Mythical - Dragon (Ice Breath)
Played by: Odd Online
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#3
flora

Whether the words are meant to soothe or taunt, Flora doesn't know. She had thought she was in Safrin's good graces right up until she'd visited the herald's shrine with Jack and had been made to watch the man she'd secretly loved been forced to his knees, promising Safrin all the things she desperately longed to hear. Had Safrin done it to be cruel, or simply to show her what a man like Jack was capable of? What he'd say to get the things he wanted?

"I just...I need a way to keep him out." The Doubletake whispers breathlessly, not trusting herself to meet the goddess' gaze. Instead, she clutched at the altar, trying and failing to calm her breathing. "I don't want him to be able to take anything more of me." Not without her permission, anyway.
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And now I'm covered in you
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#4
it's fine to fake it 'till you make it
Humming softly under her breath as she hears out her queen, Safrin nods her understanding as Flora makes her request known. "It is always wise to be able to protect oneself." She whispers soothingly, before leaning forward and explaining what it was the Doubletake would need to do in order to defend against a man like Jack.



Flora has been given a quest! She must:

1. Complete a training thread defending herself
2. Complete a thread spent meditating/introspecting into her own mind
3. Complete a thread spent trying to keep her thoughts clear while someone intentionally distracts her
4. Complete a thread buying or crafting the item she'd like to use.
'till you do. 'till it's true.
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Flora Kaito-Taliesin
the Doubletake
Owner of The Hanged Man / Queen of Torchline

Age: 22 | Height: 5'7" | Race: Accepted | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Torchline
Level: 12 - Strg: 41 - Dext: 44 - Endr: 42 - Luck: 45 - Int: 2
SPICE - Mythical - Dragon (Ice Breath)
Played by: Odd Online
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MP: 2129

#5
flora

"Thank you." Feeling suddenly all the more foolish for having bothered Safrin in the middle of the night—though arguably that was one of the best times to seek out the goddess of the stars—Flora tried not to collapse in on herself. Instead, she straightened, trying to absorb Safrin's calm and poise if only to stop the runaway thunder of her own breaking heart.

"I can do those things, and..." Glancing at the altar, the lack of an offering, the unlit candles, Flora frowns and gives her head an apologetic shake. "..I'll do better next time." Forcing herself to rise onto her feet, knowing that she couldn't simply wallow in the lighthouse, Flora wiped the tears from her eyes before bowing her head.

Twisting her invisibility ring before pressing the button on her compass to take her home, Flora slipped back into her bed not an hour since she'd left it.

~FIN
My house of stone, your ivy grows
And now I'm covered in you
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