[SE] i'd tell them put me back in it

I shouldn't laugh, but I know I'm a failure in your eyes

Maybe, Ronin admits with a lopsided grin up at his husband, as the void messengers are all reduced to a flurry of dark feathers and a mild sense of unease on the wind. With pale wings beating hard to get him properly aloft, he's left glancing around for any remaining suitable targets, only to find them quite alone once more above the Northaven. Resisting the urge to dust off his hands in a job well done, instead he shades his eyes from the sun and smiles up at Remi.

I very much agree. I'll let her make a little nest up on the lookout perch, and she can chase them off to her heart's content. With a soft laugh, he slowly starts to descend back towards the houseboat. "In the meantime, I've worked up an appetite shooting at those things. Let's have lunch?"

RONIN

we are like birds of a feather, we are two hearts thrown together

"I'm not sure how Oria will feel riding into battle, but maybe they can work out some sort of system. Remi trills back before letting a warm thermal lift him up slightly higher than the Knight. Stretching out his wings the hawk let himself glide back toward their little boat expending as little energy as was necessary until the suggestion of lunch had his wings suddenly flapping.

Stretching out his legs to land on the railing, the hawk leaned forward before seamlessly shifting. Despite having been a variety of shapechanger his entire life, this was the only body that Remi could shift with such ease in and out of. "I'm craving something savoury." He calls cheerfully, glancing up towards the top of their boat where he assumes Ronin has landed. Ruffling the last remaining feathers from his curls, he steps inside momentarily to slip on his shoes before popping back out and shuffling out a different pair of wings that he might not have to swim through the shallows to get to shore.

~FIN

THE BASTION

we will be forever as one, my brother under the sun