RONIN
kiss your perfect day goodbye
We were nervous about it, Ronin says of Carlo and Calan, with a tired sigh that echoes the expression on Remi's face. Flora wasn't nervous about this. I suppose in her mind, why would she have any reason to be? It was her life, as she'd said, and she'd hardly been strong-armed into accepting. It doesn't make the weight of it settle in his gut any easier, though - if anything, it feels worse.
Dropping another kiss, this time to Remi's forehead, in the wake of his initial words, Ronin settles back into the couch, tentative in his hope that if the bassinet ceases rocking for a bit that the twins will remain asleep. At least for long enough that he can properly hold the Bastion and sit with all that has just happened.
His fingers smooth absently through Remi's damp curls as he continues, his gaze similarly pinned on the sleeping twins, and though he can still feel the thorny confusion of all Flora had done and agreed to - knowingly or otherwise - it doesn't settle into anything neat or easy. "I think saying nothing would have been worse," he admits softly. "Instead of hearing what we did say, she'd have filled the silence with something else. I just... I know we can't do it for them. Can't live for them, or make the mistakes for them, or protect them from things that might or might not happen. But fuck, Remi."
Dropping another kiss, this time to Remi's forehead, in the wake of his initial words, Ronin settles back into the couch, tentative in his hope that if the bassinet ceases rocking for a bit that the twins will remain asleep. At least for long enough that he can properly hold the Bastion and sit with all that has just happened.
His fingers smooth absently through Remi's damp curls as he continues, his gaze similarly pinned on the sleeping twins, and though he can still feel the thorny confusion of all Flora had done and agreed to - knowingly or otherwise - it doesn't settle into anything neat or easy. "I think saying nothing would have been worse," he admits softly. "Instead of hearing what we did say, she'd have filled the silence with something else. I just... I know we can't do it for them. Can't live for them, or make the mistakes for them, or protect them from things that might or might not happen. But fuck, Remi."
because the world is on fire
