[se]if the sky grows heavy

the lullaby

I had a dream about a burning house
You were stuck inside, I couldn't get you out

Remi valued his privacy these days more than he ever had. War was coming, the world seemed to be fracturing apart thanks to the choices he and others had been making, and just now his husband was off being a hero in Torchline leaving the Lullaby alone to stew in his own thoughts. So it was that he was comfortably broiling in his own mental juices when Tal and Boreal came upon him.

Turning slowly with clods of dirt caked in his paws and caught in the golden fur running down his chest and beneath his legs, the manticore fixed his sea-glass stare on the courier and his companion. Though felines can't properly frown they are masters of showing disdain without having to do much of anything, and it was with just such a look that Remi regarded Tal now. It wasn't a personal stare in that the Lullaby would have regarded anyone outside of his family with precisely such a look.

Straightening, Remi shifted his gaze towards the box the courier held and then back up again.

I lay beside you and pulled you close
And the two of us went up in smoke

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!