cruel summer

yes other hearts were broken & other dreams ran dry

but our golden ones sail on and on

"Many more than I would like." Not so much as Ronin, but then again, most had simply avoided commenting on the hunter's state, as degraded as it had become. Remi though? Apparently having your husband dying wasn't much of an excuse for lack of sleep or unkempt curls, much to the alchemist's frustration.

"Blindly?" Remi repeated, face free of emotion save for a slight narrowing of his eyebrows. Quickly though the charade of being wounded by the reminder of his vision disappeared and Remi merely gave the fox an bemusedly pointed look.

Forgetting about the scarf for now, Remi awkwardly shuffled his feet, his eyes unsure quite where to fall. It was truly difficult to look at the fox and not feel all sorts of guilt-twinges; guilt for what he'd done, and guilt for what some deep and dark parts of his mind still wanted to do, married or not.

Clearing his throat slightly, Remi took a small sip of his tea. "She gave me a charm that would protect Aoife from the blight." The alchemist started to explain. "And given what she was able to accomplish in healing the Undine, we thought...well. We thought it worth asking to see what she could do now. I know others have asked and she has said it goes beyond her magic, but.." Remi shrugged, suggesting that her actions hadn't exactly bore that out.

And then, because there was no one better to ask the question to, Remi managed to pull his gaze up from where it had landed somewhere around Ianto's feet, to his face. "What do you think?"

Remi

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