you've long seen your downfall, spelled out in another's bones
"I wonder how this particular dog would look wearing that?" Ronin smirks at the sight of the sequined string that Remi fishes out of the water, the Knight grinning and leaning in to smooch his husband's cheek, before reluctantly parting that they might be able to skim the waters for traysure trash. "And that's what's strange to me. Arguably Torchline's beaches are never in the dark. It's not like in the Grounds, where the world really might have ended each Longnight."
Disappearing beneath the water briefly to grab another few bottles, Ronin deposits them in his net before surfacing. "You might be right, there. Though as Hadama would likely attest, just because you don't see it any more, doesn't mean it isn't there." Gods, was the Underwater City just one big garbage pile at one point? Yeesh.
But anyway. Unhinged. Segue. Vai? Ronin tilts his head and snags some item or another as it bobs by, brows furrowed to listen to his husband. And at first it doesn't sound unhinged at all - Ronin, after all, had been able to speak to Sunjata easily enough at The Hanged Man, and with everything going on with Starfall and so on--
Ah. Right. The Hotaru of it all.
Instinctively the Knight's gaze darkens, jaw feathering until he can put a purposeful stop to it with a force of will. After what had happened to Melita at the tournament, seeing the Valkyrie hadn't been quite as horrific as he'd expected. Still, he doesn't know yet whether he'll be able to bury that particular hatchet unless it's between her shoulder blades.
"If you are asking me whether I'll be able to keep a civil tongue in my head for all of us to see Vai for a visit... the answer is of course yes," he says eventually.
Disappearing beneath the water briefly to grab another few bottles, Ronin deposits them in his net before surfacing. "You might be right, there. Though as Hadama would likely attest, just because you don't see it any more, doesn't mean it isn't there." Gods, was the Underwater City just one big garbage pile at one point? Yeesh.
But anyway. Unhinged. Segue. Vai? Ronin tilts his head and snags some item or another as it bobs by, brows furrowed to listen to his husband. And at first it doesn't sound unhinged at all - Ronin, after all, had been able to speak to Sunjata easily enough at The Hanged Man, and with everything going on with Starfall and so on--
Ah. Right. The Hotaru of it all.
Instinctively the Knight's gaze darkens, jaw feathering until he can put a purposeful stop to it with a force of will. After what had happened to Melita at the tournament, seeing the Valkyrie hadn't been quite as horrific as he'd expected. Still, he doesn't know yet whether he'll be able to bury that particular hatchet unless it's between her shoulder blades.
"If you are asking me whether I'll be able to keep a civil tongue in my head for all of us to see Vai for a visit... the answer is of course yes," he says eventually.
RONIN
