it burns all clean

the lullaby

i don't want the world to see me,
because I don't think they'd understand

For a while it won't look as though much is happening. For all of Remi's superficial wounds, the ones that are gnawing away at his lifeforce are still hidden behind flaps of flesh and juts of bone. Organs shift and shuffle, ignoring fractures that need to be reset. There is a priority to this healing, a method in the madness that neither of them (fortunately) have any control over.

i           have                never     deserved                           you. Remi thinks, the words a shade brighter than they had been.        worse                  I           have  never         been                   good          enough             for          you. He'd never lived up to the promises he'd made and the dreams he'd helped weave. Always had the alchemist been a dreamer with a knife, destroying as much as he ever contributed. And now? Gods, why not now? Out here where no one would know? Ronin could just be done with him once and for all. He could save his forgiveness for someone who wouldn't constantly stretch it thin.

He could be happy.

Remi's bloodshot eyes open, though not at the same time. Blinking lazily, for a moment he doesn't understand the star-scape that roars overhead, or why his body feels like it has been covered in lead. He doesn't understand why his eyes feel like they're covered in shards of glass or how to make his head move.

when everything's meant to be broken,
i just want you to know who I am

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!