[SE][OPEN] Painting Stars

"But if I don't encourage them, who will?" Ronin grinned, bouncing Aoife gently in his arms as she cooed at him, blinking about at the gathered people and offering Roana a wide smile (for all that she loved Remi and Ronin, she didn't often get to see women, and so she adored their attention). Rhett's response was unexpected, Ronin smirking down at the boy and shifting from his seat so he could sit with them and watch them paint. Undoubtedly Aoife would wake up enough soon to want to join in, and he was prepared for that chaos when it arrived. "No, that's just what they look like." He winked at the boy, before glancing up at Roana and smiling sadly. It was hard not to miss the sadness that fell over her, and it was one he knew all too intimately indeed. "I'm sorry, Ro," he murmured. "Perhaps you could petition the gods, at a shrine? See if they can find out?" RONIN Darkness is a funny thing. It creeps up on you.