my heart is yours to break

right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up

Remi's might not be the most far-reaching teleportation or the most useful to get somewhere specific. But he can always, always find those he's looking for. But as he wakes up in Ronin's cramped soldier's cot, he's up and out of the bed immediately, caring not at all that he's naked or that the moon is still casting silhouettes of the Star's basic furniture across the floor. He does so as softly as he can, but no doubt it will be enough to stir his husband from sleep.

There are fresh scars on his body—from Isla and from the destruction of the shrine—and had the Lullaby chosen to speak with the Star in a dream, he could have hid them that they might not become the topic of conversation too soon. But such abilities of his were precisely the problem these days. Too long had the pair lived in worlds of their own making, ignoring how reality was crashing down around them.

Now, lingering in the shadows, half-enveloped by them, Remi isn't entirely sure who the man in the soldier's bed is anymore, or what his relationship to him is. Only that the love he at least feels is not something he can dampen or ignore.

The Lullaby