ISLA
Letting Flora vent because not only does it sound like she needs it, but the situation really does seem dire from the Doubletake's perspective, Isla wonders when Remi had fallen into becoming a bad father. Of all the things she knows about the Lullaby, when she had known him, she wouldn't have thought it possible.
"I am barely into twosomes," she says in her defence, especially given her most recent revelations about the whole massive trauma bond she shares with the Flood. Isla is about to remark on Flora's unexpected roommates when their drinks appear, and she's blindsided by the roll and tumble of the conversation.
"Oh, I don't..." Think you really want to know, think I ought to say, both work in this environment, but she had planted a seed the night before. "It is a long one," she mutters to her drink. "And it started a long time ago now, when we first came to Caido. Remi and I really were the best of friends, and I mean that in the way that friends should be. We shared all the same interests, we had the same kind of humour..." Smiling as if looking at a reflection of herself from the past, Isla seems sweeter somehow, for a couple of moments.
"But then in that first Longnight in the Grounds... I don't know if you're aware of how it used to be, with the monsters that roamed there, but when the sun didn't rise, the Grounds were easily the most dangerous place in Caido." In her opinion, at least. "I was killed out there, in the dark."
"I am barely into twosomes," she says in her defence, especially given her most recent revelations about the whole massive trauma bond she shares with the Flood. Isla is about to remark on Flora's unexpected roommates when their drinks appear, and she's blindsided by the roll and tumble of the conversation.
"Oh, I don't..." Think you really want to know, think I ought to say, both work in this environment, but she had planted a seed the night before. "It is a long one," she mutters to her drink. "And it started a long time ago now, when we first came to Caido. Remi and I really were the best of friends, and I mean that in the way that friends should be. We shared all the same interests, we had the same kind of humour..." Smiling as if looking at a reflection of herself from the past, Isla seems sweeter somehow, for a couple of moments.
"But then in that first Longnight in the Grounds... I don't know if you're aware of how it used to be, with the monsters that roamed there, but when the sun didn't rise, the Grounds were easily the most dangerous place in Caido." In her opinion, at least. "I was killed out there, in the dark."
apres moi le deluge
after me comes the flood
after me comes the flood
