it feels like we're ready to crack, these days, you and I
Knowing to let Remi have his moment in a way that the hosts of some shows never learn, Ronin steps out of the frame until the medium has finished his segment, and even then he doesn't interrupt, allowing the silence to stretch thin into the stale air. He doesn't realise he's holding his breath until it starts to burn in his lungs, and he lets out a low, soft breath before inhaling once more, gaze flicking between the moonlight spilling in from the window sill and Remi, haloed with curls and limned in the ghostly glow from outside.
His lips part as if to speak when the first tinny, tinkling notes from the music box play, as if something has scampered into the vicinity and has set it off. Ronin - still out of frame, luckily - jumps a bit and glances at Isla with raised brows. She nods proudly to Remi as if to tell him to keep going. It's rare to get something so soon after starting, and they've not even had to pull out any of their 'encouragements' yet. (I.e. causing a cold draught, making movement that would trigger the music box, faking answers to the Estes method and so on).
But Remi won't have to keep going - the music box picks up again a moment later. And it doesn't stop. "...Er." Ronin tilts his head. "Any chance it might be broken...?"
His lips part as if to speak when the first tinny, tinkling notes from the music box play, as if something has scampered into the vicinity and has set it off. Ronin - still out of frame, luckily - jumps a bit and glances at Isla with raised brows. She nods proudly to Remi as if to tell him to keep going. It's rare to get something so soon after starting, and they've not even had to pull out any of their 'encouragements' yet. (I.e. causing a cold draught, making movement that would trigger the music box, faking answers to the Estes method and so on).
But Remi won't have to keep going - the music box picks up again a moment later. And it doesn't stop. "...Er." Ronin tilts his head. "Any chance it might be broken...?"
when it's just the two of us, only the two of us, I could die
