I shouldn't laugh, but I know I'm a failure in your eyes
"I do - every day," Ronin snipes back, his grin successfully taking years off him even if the silver at his temples gives the game away. "I look in the mirror and say Ronin, you're only as young as the person you feel. And Remi's a good three years younger than you, so it's not all bad." Beaming, he lets the amusement fade back into something more gentle and affectionate as Vanya speaks again, the Knight nodding his stoic agreement. "Of that I have no doubt," he says softly.
Last stop might be a bit of an over-simplification, in Ronin's book - and he'd have gestured to the entire party at their backs were it not for Vanya taking his hands - but by the time he's glancing back at her, that tell-tale gleam in is in her eyes, and the Knight's expression mingles between shock and horror. "No, wait--!"
In the end, the Knight rolls his pants up enough to paddle further in the surf, but he leaves the real swimming to Vanya. After all, as a Hali, she belongs in the waves more than he ever has.
~FIN
Last stop might be a bit of an over-simplification, in Ronin's book - and he'd have gestured to the entire party at their backs were it not for Vanya taking his hands - but by the time he's glancing back at her, that tell-tale gleam in is in her eyes, and the Knight's expression mingles between shock and horror. "No, wait--!"
In the end, the Knight rolls his pants up enough to paddle further in the surf, but he leaves the real swimming to Vanya. After all, as a Hali, she belongs in the waves more than he ever has.
~FIN
RONIN
