[se] we come in waves

the lullaby

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Remi wonders, suddenly the picture of pacifist innocence. Or at least, that was what he'd been going for. It was hard to even pantomime someone non-threatening these days given just how many scars silvered his arms and neck, without even mentioning the ones they both knew were hidden by his clothing.

"Mmmhm." He agrees as she corrects herself. "Ludo cursed me...almost right away when we arrived." Remi says with a slow inhale. "Though of all the ways in which I have been cursed over the years, I did not mind that one." Glancing down at his hands, now incapable of doing the things they once could for all the power he now had, Remi shrugs. "If I could go back to being just an alchemist...very few things would make me happier, but then..." He grins. "..I suppose I will have to settle for having you as a friend again."

Rising in Isla's wake, knowing she could better assess the injury to her foot than he could, Remi glances at the boat with a playful scowl. "You are going to ask me, the demigod of death and mighty kraken to get into a row boat?"

You trace my lines, stirring my soul
shoot sparks at the heart of the world
& I watch it explode

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!