just a moment to hold

REMI

the lullaby

there's a light that you give me
when I'm in shadow

It's lucky that Isla thinks of him so, for there's no intentionality behind Remi's choices and the fables he tells. Ronin is the charming one, with his handsome looks and roguish quips. All the alchemist has in his arsenal are stories of stars that often focus on separation and loss if only because that was what he'd known as a boy. It's only happenstance, that now they serve him well, though for what comes next he'll thank his younger self for the role he played in it.

Isla's touch has him shivering more, and as she kisses him, her lips cool and familiar, it's a flighty sort of sigh that moves from him to her. That there's no heat...no gasp of air on her part...it's fine, isn't it? He could pretend that they were somewhere cold, and that's why her lips felt the way they did, or that she'd just take in a big breath and didn't need to sip for air.

Or, even better, he could learn not to equate the things in him that showed attraction, to the ways she now did. It wasn't as though he expected her to get an erection; she hadn't the parts for it. Why was this any different?

Pushing himself onto his elbow if only so that his hand could curl under her raised head, hesitantly, Remi experiments with what it might be like to blanket her body with his. She's all but said yes, and together they've investigated one another in ways far more intimate than this, and yet he would trade a thousand LongNight orgasms for these soft kisses beneath the stars.

there's a feeling you give me, an everglow

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!