Taking Different Roads

REMI wish that we could go back in time, i'd be the one you thought you'd find "Mmm, no." Remi corrected with a gentle shake of his head. "Ianto...I told you that was how I knew of her. He is indebted to her, as I warned you about. He wears a magical leather collar that he could not remove, but I could. I did not mean to suggest breaking his deal with Arduinna, merely removing the thing so that he could..." The alchemist trailed off. So that he could what? Pretend to be free? Be properly naked and intimate with Remi? The alchemist didn't even know anymore. "As the collar was removed she appeared, quite cross as I suppose I should have known. But I—" Touching his forehead gently, Remi swallowed down the words. I asked Ianto, and he said I could. "It all happened so fast. Her fingers became talons and she mauled my face, and then she and Ianto disappeared, leaving me in the woods. Luckily I was found by Zariah and Amalia who brought me home."