this ain't for the best

& all we are is skin and bone, trained to get along

There was no way Remi was going to say no, if he even could or wanted it. It simply wasn't in his nature. Loren might have shucked off whatever it was that kept him bound and submissive for so long, but the alchemist likely never would. Only the more he learned about himself the more he thought it had nothing to do with the size of his heart, but merely the vastness that was his misplaced nativity. "Alright." This was the 3rd? 4th? Time they would have 'started over' in about as many weeks. Glancing up at Loren and looking at him properly now for the first time in the duration of their conversation, he nodded with a genuine smile. It would probably hurt him in the end, but what didn't?

'Oh, I absolutely do not plan on being part of this." Remi said with a hollow laugh. He nodded towards the chair across from him for Loren to sit, instead of hovering. "We are supposed to guard and watch and make sure the ascended do not use the portals are anything nefarious." Reaching into his pocket he pulled out what looked like a large marble filled with soft light. "I can feel the other three when I hold this. And...once it goes dark, that apparently means the ascended have activated another portal."