my heart is yours to break

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

Remi is about to feign surprise that Ronin is the better of the pair at acting as if things are alright, before his flourish of amusement is softened by the Star's apology. "Not difficult, but.." It's another moment wherein the alchemist feels a weight lifted off of his chest, for finally being able to put words to a feeling that had been gnawing away at him for so long. "..just perhaps that we weren't on the same page." Laughing at their combined stupidity as of late, Remi can only silently vow to ensure that he doesn't let them find their way here again.

It isn't only Remi who appears cut from the pages of a storybook: casually charming enough as to steal the air from his lungs, Ronin is every inch the roguish adventurer and soldier Remi had met naked on the beaches so many years before. They've both changed so much in the years since then, and yet in moments like these, there is a wonderful uncertainty about how their lives might go in a way that fills Remi with hope. It was as Vi said: they needn't be apart, in order to balance the scales.

Walking past Ronin, painfully close, Remi pauses just as they're next to one another. Turning, his eyes adoringly falling over Ronin's eyes and then lips, the alchemist blushes, and smiles apologetically. "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't, but.." He whispers, before leaning forward, breath all but held..

..to pluck a nail from the wall just behind Ronin's head. "Sorry. That would have bothered me all morning." He says with a thoroughly innocent smile, before stepping out onto the busy street.

"Coming?"

~FIN

The Lullaby