Bigger, Better, Stronger

The blush on Remi's cheeks darkened at this, but rather than shying away the alchemist merely shrugging his shoulders and met Ronin's gaze with a cheeky expression. "Well you have just burst into my shop, who else should I be thinking of?" There were other ways of answering that question of course, and again, Remi was glad he'd let his mind settle on the captain rather than any of the others. At first Remi didn't know how to take Ronin 's expletive. On the one hand, surely acquiring magic was a good thing? But on the other, given that he was the lowest of the low and magic conferred a social rank with it necessarily, perhaps the captain thought that it was inappropriate for the alchemist to suddenly possess such abilities? His stuttering didn't help, but the clasp of his fingers against Remi's shoulder helped to confer some sense of approval. Or at the very least, not disgust. With a sigh, the coin fell back to the counter. "It was given to me...I think." Remi said, voice sad and flat. "The night I came back as a lion. I met this..." Closing one eye for a moment to try and remember what Vai had called it, the alchemist continued. –deity, I believe. It gave me these powers and called me an I<>Abandoned, whatever that means." Looking at the coin, it began to spiral slightly, defying physics in a beautiful display. remi At another place in time, you were infinitely mine