The pit | I fell in the pit

"Your... your mother, Remi? But..." But she was dead. Quite dead. She'd heard the story from the hawk's own lips, in fact; their common love of fairytales had been one of the things to cement their relationship. "Hey... no, look at me, okay?" The lines of red he clawed across his knees matched the other crimson ribbons on his body, but those were old and did not look good. Shifting to her knees for a moment, Vai shrugged out of the coat she was wearing and dropped it down to Remi so he could keep warm for however long he kept his human shape. "What makes you think it was her? Could it have been a trick? Were you sure, Remi?" Because hell, people had come back from the dead since they'd been dragged to this place - she'd witnessed it herself - and if that was the case... and he said he'd killed her... Now it was Vai's turn to rub at her eyes. "I can't help you from up here," she said softly. vervain where the wild things are