nights you chase your shadow

"You might have known it would be one I would want you to find," Ludo snaps back, the deity looking nothing so dangerous or tricksy as it is, petulantly licking its fingers clean. Looks of course can be deceiving, as Remi well knows, and as Ludo's black eyes flick up to watch him across the flames, the Lullaby is right to check himself. They sit like that for seconds that might as well be years, before Ludo seems to soften. "It is less that I do not think you capable," it says, "and more that, as you have just said, if you are caught out, you may lose all of those relics at once to some thief. You know yourself and those you trust. Do what you will." But there might be more yet to be found, and Ludo shuffles closer around the fire beside its chosen, like they're about to share a secret. Because they are. "Do you know what lies at the bottom of the Maw?" it asks. "It might be worth going to find out." LUDO Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own