The pit | I fell in the pit

At Vai's rejection of what his mother would or wouldn't do, the alchemist could only shrug without much conviction. Remi had never been a selfish man, and yet with the close relationships he'd built with two men in particular, would he be so selfish as to wish death for them, if it meant they could be together always? His mind wanted to say no, but something dark and twisted in his heart–a tear caused by the lion perhaps–thought that he just might. The mention of the shrine caught Remi's attention, and now he did look up. He hadn't known when or how or why the lion had come, but now that Vai was putting it into that language specifically, actually it made quite a bit of sense. Had Frey done this? Swallowing hard, he recalled how Cel had been left without her clothes, Phoebe had been all but traumatized and Remi? Well, nothing bad had happened to him really. Or so he thought. "Do you think ... is that where the lion came from, do you think?" Inwardly the lion snarled. It didn't much care to have its presence questioned. Sighing, Remi shook his head. "I hurt the young man who came to my house that night. And I hurt Ronin. It is why I'm down here." So saying, the lion roared to the forefront and bared its teeth at the huntress. The look was actually quite comical: the alchemist sitting with his knees to his bare chest looking weak and pale, then suddenly the head of a snarling predator roaring from his shoulders. Raising his hands which were quickly turning to paws, Remi raked them against his skull and moaned with pain and effort as he struggled to regain control over himself. After a few tense moments, the lion faded away leaving Remi looking even more drained than he had. Gasping for breath, he leaned back against the mud wall once again until his heart stopped hammering quite so quickly. "It isn't like being a hawk." He managed after a moment, although that much was likely clear already. "I do not know how to control it...and I do not want to hurt anyone else." Sadly Remi looked up at Vai, wanting a solution but seeing none. The rounded walls of the pit would likely be his view for the foreseeable future. remi roar