nobody's soldier

if you need to, darling, lean your weight to me

"People know?" There have been times in Remi's life that he's felt naive, but it had been a good long while since he'd received information that fundamentally shifted what he thought everyone else around him knew and believed. Everest was infected, and the queen of Torchline was just letting him frolic through the region?

Exhaling and looking all the more stunned for how his lips remained open, the Bastion shifts away from Ronin slightly, but only so that he could better see his husband. "Do we care? I mean, surely this isn't the sort of thing that's...that's just his choice?" When the Blight had struck Ronin wanted no part of the healing process, but that hadn't meant anything. When Flora had been infected, she'd been healed. Gods, they'd been doing all sorts of quests for seasons now to keep the void out, and here Everest was, sailing in and out on the regular.

"Why aren't you more upset about this?" Remi blinks himself out of his thoughts, eyeing his husband somewhat skeptically. "Am I being crazy right now, or is this not as big of a deal as it feels like?"

we'll float away