stained starlight

cut up our losses into doable doses

ration our tears and sighs

As if to punctuate Ronin's sentiment, Remi plucked a feather from seemingly nowhere, trailing it along Ronin's arm for a moment with a laugh. "You asked me to move in. You did it to yourself." He reminded his husband with an affectionate laugh.

Letting his head lean back as he was tugged against Ronin, Remi leaned his head onto Ronin's shoulder and sighed deeply. Raising his hand to find Ronin's, their wedding rings clicking with a muted sound beneath the water, Remi closed his eyes. Shivering beneath both touches and words, the alchemist felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes in response to the utter goodness of the moment. An oasis they'd somehow found in the unrelenting lives they were now leading. That, and hearing his husband say I missed you, seemed to sum up entirely all that was happening. Though Ronin hadn't ever left, he'd been gone more and more often. Starlit as he was, the blackness was taking its toll.

"We're here now." Remi whispered, turning in Ronin's arms and diverting the flow of water onto them by sealing his lips against the hunter's as if breathing was secondary to what it was Ronin's tongue could provide instead.

Remi

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