cinders and smoke

remi The higher I climb the farther I fall when I do Remi too grinned into the memory. Everything had been so easy then. Weightless. But he was not so naive as to wish away their lives together to get back to simpler times. "The same for you." Ronin's quiet smile was grounding, and the alchemist felt himself sinking back into something he felt he understood; a place he did in fact want to be if only because of the man before him. "I know that this.." He tilted his head towards the grave, "..isn't what she deserved. But I don't know what is. So if you do, tell me. And if you don't? Tell me that too." Nuzzling forward, his nose brushing Ronin's in one last grasp at affection, the alchemist hummed a note of agreement under his breath. As they stood and began walking across the sands, the tide finally stretched up to reclaim the section of the beach Remi had sequestered himself too. Feathers and shells were washed away, the empty hole filled. ~FIN