we shall heal our wounds, collect our dead
"I've honestly lost count of the number of titles I've held," Ronin admits with a self-deprecating smile. If there was an award for it, he thinks he'd probably be in with a good chance of winning. "Though I wouldn't be surprised, even if Vi never said it himself. He was mostly interested in me helping people." From kings to paupers, it makes no difference to the Knight; he'll offer his help to anyone who needs it.
Waving at the kids still playing before they're pushing the cart onward, Ronin is aiming for a quieter sidestreet right on the edge of Haulani, where they can decide to burn the debris without risking anyone's lungs. Aurelia's question catches him very much off guard, and it takes a few moments for him to respond; if there's a bit of colour in his cheeks, too, he'd not deny it.
"It's the best thing I've ever done," he says with an honest shrug. "But it's also the hardest thing I've ever done. Before all of this," This being demigodhood, being in a new world, war and so on, "I'd always seen myself with a big family. And I suppose I still have that, just not in the way I anticipated." Pausing to halt the cart, he also helps to unload it.
"My firstborn, Aoife, died when she was a toddler. Seren was given to me from the stars, from Safrin, Mateo from a dream, and of course there's Flora, but I was not the man I should have been when she was growing up." Sighing hard and trying to shake off the melancholy, Ronin partially shifts his fingers into crimson feathers, leaning in to set the debris alight with phoenix fire. "An orphanage is a noble dream, though. You shouldn't give up on it."
Waving at the kids still playing before they're pushing the cart onward, Ronin is aiming for a quieter sidestreet right on the edge of Haulani, where they can decide to burn the debris without risking anyone's lungs. Aurelia's question catches him very much off guard, and it takes a few moments for him to respond; if there's a bit of colour in his cheeks, too, he'd not deny it.
"It's the best thing I've ever done," he says with an honest shrug. "But it's also the hardest thing I've ever done. Before all of this," This being demigodhood, being in a new world, war and so on, "I'd always seen myself with a big family. And I suppose I still have that, just not in the way I anticipated." Pausing to halt the cart, he also helps to unload it.
"My firstborn, Aoife, died when she was a toddler. Seren was given to me from the stars, from Safrin, Mateo from a dream, and of course there's Flora, but I was not the man I should have been when she was growing up." Sighing hard and trying to shake off the melancholy, Ronin partially shifts his fingers into crimson feathers, leaning in to set the debris alight with phoenix fire. "An orphanage is a noble dream, though. You shouldn't give up on it."
THE WHITE KNIGHT
and continue fighting
