nami/robin (to shake things up) and flinders because I don't know what it is so it's even more exciting! <3
Because I didnât know what it meant either I included a definition haha... thank you for sending it in!!Â
Flinders - bits, fragments, or splinters
âHey, Robin, what does flinders mean?â Robin looked up from her book and slid her sunglasses up so she could better look at Nami. âIâve never heard it before, I think.â
âFlinders?â Robin sat up. âIâm not sure Iâve heard it either. Whatâs the context?â
Nami hummed and chewed on her lower lip like she did when deep in thought. ââLife had a way of turning you to flinders, but the trick was that sometimes flinders could be stronger than the original if you used the right mortar.â It seems to be a bad thing. But itâs one of those trashy romances we picked up on the last island, and you know how the author likes to use words incorrectly as long as they are impressive sounding.â Robin rolled her eyes. Those books were terrible, but somehow they both kept reading them. At least they were fun to mock.
She crossed her arms over her chest and grabbed the dictionary up in the library passing it from hand to hand. âMaybe the author just made it up.â
Nami snorted. âSeems like something theyâd do.â
Robin handed herself the dictionary and flipped trough it to the correct page. âItâs a synonym of splinters or fragments.â
âSo sheâs making a metaphor about cement?â Nami scoffed and took a sip of her drink. She glowed in the afternoon sun, and Robin thought for the hundredth time that day how very lucky she was. âDoes that belong in a romance book? Really?â
Robin hummed, remembering the days when sheâd felt like life had splintered her into a thousand pieces, remembering the stories Nami had told her, late at night when neither of them could sleep. She smiled.
âI suppose it depends on who the characters are.â