[God Quest] I'll bring you further roses, but it does you no good

remi there's a hole in my neighbourhood down which of late I cannot help but fall As she teetered as if suddenly on the brink of collapse, Remi was there in a heartbeat. Instinctively his hand pulled out of hers and he grasped both of her shoulders gently but firmly, drawing her close to him. When he was a boy, maintaining her balance for her was a challenge. As a man however, it was all too easy to simply pull her to his chest and hold her until her balance steadied. As she looked up at him, his breath caught sadly in his throat. The lines around her face had deepened, and the beautifully deep olive skin was now wan and waxy. She appeared both too fragile but also hard at the same time. The same anxious and painful waves of indecision that used to drown him as a boy now sloshed ferociously in his stomach. Again his legs felt weak once again, the boy who was trembling in the body of a man pulled his mother closer. Now it was his turn to kiss her curls and smooth away the dark and wild locks. The tears that had departed returned now in full force, though rather than trickling down his cheeks with the slow build of love and affection, now they burned and pricked at the back of his eyes, streaking down already rosy and patchy skin. "Alright." The alchemist gasped willingly. There was nothing this woman couldn't ask of him - save for looking or thinking too closely about this situation. The alchemist was fully enraptured by her mere presence, and his overwhelming love for her completed obfuscated any attempt at reason his mind may have been making. "Here-" He said, releasing her shoulder and splaying his arms. "Let me carry you. You can tell me the way."