just a moment to hold

REMI

the lullaby

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

Remi watches clearly entranced as Isla removes the pins. Her hair unfurls and flows down her shoulders with ease, and he finds himself staring with far too much focus to try and figure out how it was all held together. "Oh? I..think I'd like that." Biting the inside of his cheek and making his smile lopsided in the process, he nods eagerly. Reaching up, Remi combs his fingers through her hair, watching as it falls effortless through his fingers.

With his arm now fixedly around her, Remi crosses his legs at the ankles and looks up at the sky. "Mmmm, I suppose that's maybe a harsh way of saying it." He admits, looking down at her as his fingers switch from smoothing the fabric straps of her dress to drawing soft patterns against her skin. "I went to find Phoebe at the brothel, and the new Madame asked me when my preference was." Quickly, he shakes his head. "But I hadn't gone there for that. Just to check up on Phoebe. But I realized after being with you...I didn't quite know how to answer that anymore." Remi's smile is bashful now, his cheeks dimpled. "And so she...offered to try and help me figure it out. It didn't work. Or rather, I suppose it did. Despite everything, at the end of it, I didn't want to sleep with her." It will likely ring very differently in Isla's ears, but for the alchemist at least, the experience with Maeve had been safe and informative.

"That's when I realized that...it is only you."

there's a feeling you give me, an everglow

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!