cruel summer

yes other hearts were broken & other dreams ran dry

but our golden ones sail on and on

Remi moaned a low not of discord as he shook his head at the offered pipe. It wasn't that the sweet tobacco scent wasn't calling to him, more than he didn't trust himself or his thoughts. Lips where the fox's had been, the momentary and fleeting instances of their fingers being so near. It was silly, really. But integrity was something the hawk valued, having only broken unspoken vows of monogamy once, with the man he ended up marrying. Still, as Remi was wont to do, the alchemist played it safe.

So too did the alchemist note the surface-level conversation they were having, and so merely quirked a brow as the fox declined his offer.

"There is...another reason I am here." The hawk began with a crooked smile. Unlinking the scarf from around his neck, he held it out towards the merchant, but not before a trace of magic rushed through. It would take keen eyes indeed to notice how, on one of the ends, the golden-embroidered hawk subtly shifted to become a cardinal. Where once the cloth was contained by a golden fox and a golden hawk, now both shifts were Ianto's. It seemed unfair perhaps, to offer his once-friend a gift with such an obvious reminder of their what-almost-weres on it. Truly, Remi didn't know what he'd been thinking.

Still, he hoped the moss-green token would be enough. "I heard that you are the man to see about fireworks of a very certain variety."

Remi

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