i cry out help before he can be gone

Assuming that apparitions of past peoples, filtered through Origin in last-ditch attempt to prevent post-intersection losses, exist within Aionios, we know that Flora must have had her pick of rough moments at which to call out for someone to notice her, to see her as something more than a frozen mask of forgotten face.

The seadog noncomformist consul intrigues her most of all - not that "intrigues" is a particularly charitable choice of word: he reminds her of someone she'd lost, and he himself is so lost, unable to find family and companions of his own age and maturity.

She cries.