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RONIN if there's one thing i'm good at, it's surviving "Sorry, should I have not said hello?" Ronin said with a quiet laugh, holding onto his friend tightly and closing his eyes as Remi reached back to pull him closer. Sugar was giving the odd unhappy squawk at being squashed, though even the dragonling hardly seemed to mind, her silver slip of a tail wiggling in as close to excitement and happiness as she could manage just then. Ronin didn't want to let Remi go, but he most certainly wasn't as strong as he had been, and he was forced to let the other man move back and clasp his cheeks. He searched sea glass eyes, one of his hands moving over Remi's, and he couldn't resist a smile even at the promise of violence that he knew lurked in the usually gentle alchemist's words. "That's why I asked you to take care of her," he mumbled. "I'd expect nothing less." Feeling strangely empty as Remi stepped back, Ronin still couldn't wipe the smile off his face - hearing about his daughter made his heart swell and his stomach flip over on itself, and he nodded since he didn't trust himself to actually speak. Sugar had clambered up to drape herself around his shoulders as she had done when she was very, very small - though there was still plenty of space, evidently - and Ronin followed after Remi on bare feet, footsteps uncertain. The guildhall was a different beast to the place he had left - it smelled different and it seemed darker somehow, Ronin glancing around uncertainly right up until he heard his daughter's cry. His chest tightened as he stepped into the greatroom to see Remi lifting her out of the bassinet; whilst he had been watching from the sky, nothing could prepare him for just how much she had grown in such a comparatively short space of time. Wiping at cheeks that were suddenly wet, Ronin slumped against the doorframe and let out a long, shaking breath. "I don't think I ought to really... not until I at least have clothes," he said through a broken laugh. "Do you... are there still some of my things upstairs?"