sipping silly chartreuse champagne

remi Took a fall from a windy height, I only knew how to hold on tight & pray for love enough to last all night Remi almost chuckled a touch at that. Oliver's version of not being nice was about as sharp as Remi's own had once been. From all that the Alchemist had seen, the man across from him didn't have it in him to be as devastatingly mean as others did. Oliver was still golden and good in a way that Remi wasn't anymore, and he was almost sad to feel so little venom coming from the other man. "I did." Remi replied, indeed offering up the sort of honestly Oliver wanted. Taking a deep breath and letting it out, the Alchemist shrugged his shoulders before relaxing somewhat. "You know...some of what happened, with Ronin and Aoife and whatnot. There's more, but it doesn't really matter. The point is, I carried all of it around with me to the point where it had started to ... blacken my soul. That's what Ludo said, anyways." Reaching for his glass, Remi raised it to his lips and took a long drink before setting it back down lightly on the table. "It...cleansed me, you might say. This time it didn't remove my memories, but instead simply made me face up to them. It also...stripped away a lot of things I had come to rely on." Which was to say almost all of his magic and the majority of his animal shifts. "And after it was done? The anger was mostly gone too."