All That Glitters

The alchemist nodded slightly, brows furrowing with confusion. He wouldn't press it though, for as long as Sam was safe that was all that immediately mattered. This place seemed deceptively quite and tame just now, but memories of the past urged haste in leaving it. "Ah..well. " Remi began with an unhelpful shrug. He wanted to say you're the natural and an ascended, shouldn't you know about this? but of course he didn't. Instead he merely said, "We could run some tests on it back in my shop if you like. I am not sure that we should remain out here any longer than is necessary...the last time I was here with Jigano...." Remi shivered and shook his head. "It was not pleasant." Glancing towards Sam now, Remi could feel his heart rate begin to increase, an unspoken question lingering on his lips. It screamed loudly in his mind and he was sure it was written quite clearly across his face: how are we going to get back? And, another buried more deeply perhaps, won't it be faster to drink from my neck? Яemi But now it's happily ever never. I guess now I know better