you could have been all I wanted

the lullaby

Love isn't all that it seems
I did you wrong

This isn't a world he can control, and so there is no reckless snarl of thunder. No blinding sunlight that turns to sleet and then to hail. The ground does not yelp and yawn beneath his feet. It's all perfectly ordinary, which is what makes the fact that everything has changed so nauseatingly hard to bear.

Returning to their houseboat wearing yesterday's clothes stained with blood and tea and afterbirth, Remi looks like a broken bit of porcelain whose cracks can't be seen if you exert enough pressure along them. If perfectly balanced and untouched, it won't fall apart.

Rather than shifting, rather than calling out, Remi stumbles into the Stonesong. Still fully dressed, he slumps to his knees unaware of the way the rocks bite into his shins or how the water tries to drag him downstream. Instead, he stares blankly down at his own muddled expression staring back at him, with eyes silently wondering what, the fuck, he was going to do now.

I'll stay here with you
Until this dream is gone

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!