I shouldn't laugh, but I know I'm a failure in your eyes
Aware, only tangentially, of those who arrive to pay their respects, Ronin offers stiff nods of greeting to people who seek out his attention, and eyes anyone beyond immediate family with quiet fury if they get too close to his daughter. Remi's warmth is a necessary presence against his side, the Knight reaching out to clasp his hand in tight, cold fingers, not daring to look at his husband for fear that his already crumbling resolve will fail him completely.
Inhaling a shaky breath to see Seren's cowl illuminate with light as delicate as the stars beginning to peek out overhead, he does turn to look towards Safrin, and she'll find no resistance in him as she takes his other hand. The power that floods through him is as familiar as it is foreign now, the light rippling from his form both warm and cool with radiance and starlight. He isn't ready, he wants to say. He's never going to be ready for this; not last time and certainly not now.
But with a feathering of his jaw and a hard swallow, the firebolts he conjures around the pyre appear, imbued with Safrin's power to beam as bright as any star.
"Goodnight, Seren," he whispers, before letting the power go, and watching as they ignite the pyre and a piece of him begins to burn.
~FIN
Inhaling a shaky breath to see Seren's cowl illuminate with light as delicate as the stars beginning to peek out overhead, he does turn to look towards Safrin, and she'll find no resistance in him as she takes his other hand. The power that floods through him is as familiar as it is foreign now, the light rippling from his form both warm and cool with radiance and starlight. He isn't ready, he wants to say. He's never going to be ready for this; not last time and certainly not now.
But with a feathering of his jaw and a hard swallow, the firebolts he conjures around the pyre appear, imbued with Safrin's power to beam as bright as any star.
"Goodnight, Seren," he whispers, before letting the power go, and watching as they ignite the pyre and a piece of him begins to burn.
~FIN
RONIN
