feeling all the shades of indigo

REMI

& now I'm all alone in the dark of night

Her voice brings him to her, and suddenly the alchemist is kneeling in the long grasses before the witch, with his eyes squeezed shut and his broad shoulders rounded and tense "Gods Vai." Remi manages, before his teeth click together to hold back what would have been a sob mixed with a growl; the trees shiver in response and their shadows deepen. "I am so sorry, I am so—" Stupid. Wreckless. Selfish. Needy. Lost. Raising pale sea glass eyes made shiny with tears, Remi holds up a hand toward the witch.

"—I need you. It is Hotaru again. She..." Not unlike how the Valkyrie had done to him, Remi has to sift through what details are important just now, and which should be saved for later in the interest of time. "..Halo was attacked. She managed to get away but is injured. She thinks...she thinks she might be in labour now." Those words veil the Woods in frost for just a moment. "I do not know where else to go." He adds pleadingly, knowing full well he's not made up for the last time he brought precisely this problem to her door. "I do not know where Phoebe is, I cannot take her Stormbreak, and Ronin..." The air itself seems to whisper the words that the alchemist simply can't make himself say: and Ronin wants the baby dead.

Shivering as if on the verge of hypothermia, this is a state of vulnerability that few see from Remi. Likely, only Vai and Ronin have ever seen him like this. "I do not know what to do.."

The moon is shining but I can't see the light