stained starlight

cut up our losses into doable doses

ration our tears and sighs

"I suppose it is a good thing you married me, rather than someone else, because I was here to stay as soon as I moved in." Surprised (but pleased) to see that Ronin would be joining him, Remi flashed his husband a sunny and crooked smile

"Mmmm. They go quite high. If I could make it so I did not need to breathe, perhaps then." He said with a shrug. Then, realizing Ronin hadn't actually been out there yet, elaborated. "It's all ruined ground and then quite literally a wall of storm. You can see it, but magically held as it is, the effects don't take hold until you are quite close. Last time we only made it...maybe half an hour in and by then the winds and lightning made it near impossible to go further."

Stepping into the stream, Remi shivered. Part of him felt relieved beneath the water as if it might wash away his sins. The remainder of him felt as though he deserved to stay stained forever. The scars on Remi's sides and back made the feeling of Ronin's hands there inconsistent, but welcome just the same. With a sigh, he lowered his head under the water, his curls forming a sopping wet mane around him. "Would that I could control water, I can only imagine what fun we might have." He said over his shoulder with a distracted smile, as if this was a shower like any other, and the blood of a deadman was not draining around their feet.

Remi

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