Isla
"Because everything about you screams of being a common man," Isla says, the over-familiarity so simple and easy that it feels like a gut punch, and she finds herself biting at the inside of her cheek to stop from tearing up over it. Pull yourself the fuck together. "Yeah... Any time," she replies, watching as he breaks the snare. And the action is so much more than he thinks it is, the Remedy finding herself smiling to herself to see that Remi remains unchanged in some ways.
"My name is Isla Lockwood," she says suddenly, because she doubts he needs or wants to introduce himself - and honestly, hearing that we've-never-met-before greeting from him is going to hurt, so if she can spare it she will. "I know you already, of course." Of course because he's the Lullaby, but of course because he's Remi Taliesin and she loves him dearly.
But she's not even sure he'll have commited her name to fresh memory or assigned it a meaning, even one he can't read into any longer.
"My name is Isla Lockwood," she says suddenly, because she doubts he needs or wants to introduce himself - and honestly, hearing that we've-never-met-before greeting from him is going to hurt, so if she can spare it she will. "I know you already, of course." Of course because he's the Lullaby, but of course because he's Remi Taliesin and she loves him dearly.
But she's not even sure he'll have commited her name to fresh memory or assigned it a meaning, even one he can't read into any longer.
I'll take a bruise, I know you're worth it
When you hit me, hit me hard
When you hit me, hit me hard
