Pretend this is real for a while

R E M I Happily Remi pulled the fur around him as he leaned back comfortably, glancing over a Vai with a chuckle. Honestly he  had thought with all that mane and with the size of his paws that he'd fair much better in the snow. That line of thinking was quickly corrected. "Are you doing that?" Remi asked with a slight tilt of his head, watching as the tendrils of flame seemed to reach up for Vai's outstretched fingers. "Notice?" He asked with a curious furrowing of his brow. The alchemist had been going to put up a missing poster about Loren, but of course that proved unnecessary. Though he'd just been near the temple with Isla, he hadn't bothered to check in and see if there were any new notices. As she asked how he was doing, Remi's smile became clearly forced, and as he looked at her with slightly downcast eyes, his smile became crooked before falling away all together. "I found something out ... something both good and bad I suppose." If the man could still feel love for Loren, surely he would begin to cry now as he had the first time he'd told Vai about his affections for the man. Now though he merely looked lost and young and tried. Indeed, he'd endured so much emotional trauma due to the Launceleyn that perhaps the removal of his feelings by Frey was a blessing. "Loren is seeing someone." He said, the corners of his mouth twitching into a feigned smile as he looked sideways at Vai, before letting his gaze drop back to his open palms. "At least I know that he is safe. I had thought maybe his absence was because he was lost or hurt or..." Trailing off, he shook his head slightly letting the implications of the unsaid words finish the thought for him.