Florentine’s nose falls in towards her chest when Asterion freezes and she blinks when suddenly the boy comes alive before her. She had not expected him to react so… fiercely.
“No.” She says slowly, thoughtfully as she surveys her brother. “I only ever heard of the lion, I never met her. My mother just told me stories of when Calliope was queen… that is all, I am sorry.”
Lashes blink slowly again, gold dusted hairs pressing to the curve of her gilded cheek. When they lift to once again to frame the amethyst of her eyes, the flower girl smiles. She wonders if he liked the lion queen or if he was afraid of her - maybe one day she would ask him such. From all that the flower girl has heard, Calliope was a creature as able to instil love and admiration as fear. The unicorn had been a true lion.
My father’s name was Gabriel. The words play along her spine as she leads he brother on. Her smile is hidden from him, but it is there: knowing, brilliant and bright.
“Of course it is,” Florentine chimes. “That makes us siblings, brother.” The flower girl adds, quite unnecessarily, but to say the words sends a thrill through her and deep, deep into her heart. This is the girl who has always belonged. She has needed no more family and neither did she crave it, but oh, to be faced with more? How could she ever decline?
Over her shoulder she takes in the face of a brother as whimsical as she and wonders how she could have ever thought she was an only child. “Come, night is here and I shall find you a room in the Court, since you are to stay. In the morning you will have to tell me about all of you.”
With that, Florentine turns to lead her brother home and as she goes, she is not sure that sleep will find her so easily this night.
@Asterion <3 finished!
★ She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future ★
