passed down like folksongs

he said "i bet you don't remember me"

It is very easy to fall into a place of anger when faced with the truth of things. Hearing this truth from a face that so mirrors his own made what he hears all the more apt. Or so somewhat else might have said of the words exchanged out on the waters. In the moment, Remi can only hear the sound of waves; can only see Finn's lips as they say the word unkind.

"I never said I was otherwise." The Alchemist says under his breath, the words dark and sad. The others..Amalia and Sam wanted him to be the man he was. It was...so strange to meet someone who'd never known that man, but still missed him, somehow. Still wished for him to be around. But there it was: the pain that Remi's kindness yielded him. The utter disregarded when that kindness went away.

Swallowing hard as Finn goes back towards the shoreline, Remi feels both a snarl on his lips as well as tears pricking the back of his eyes. Dizzy with dissonance, the Alchemist releases his Hel. Before he can drop into the water, he's already shifted into a much smaller creature whose belly skims the waves before shooting straight up into the clouds.

~FINn

THE ALCHEMIST

and i said, "only every other memory".