cut our teeth and make our bones right here

Remi

Welcome to the wild, no heroes and villains
Welcome to the war, we've only begun

ThaNk yoU Remi wants to snarl back, but instead he squeezes his eyes shut and tries to remember what life had been like before all of this. That, as it turns out, is a horrible idea, and soon Remi's rapidly increasing heart rate is all his own doing.

Years pass, and when Isla's voice breaches the rain-soaked silence, Remi has to fight to remember where he is and who is speaking to him. He'd just been somewhere cold if the layers he was wearing were any indication, though the skies were a brilliant blue. The air was refreshing and crisp, and nearby someone was laughing.

"...h-igh." Swallowing down a mouthful of saliva and blood, Remi peels his eyes slowly open. Gods, he stinks, both inside and out. "Wh...whatever it was she gave me..." Slowly he shakes his head. "m-made me feel...so..so..." Hungry wasn't the right word, but nor was empty. In truth it was something like being a collapsing star exploding inwards on itself, or perhaps a black hole. But Remi had only been a mechanic back in the Before Times, so none of those images were available to him. "I..d'not know, Isla." He admits on a sigh.

Higher and higher you chase it
It's deep in your blood, go and take it

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!