void

i've seen fire & i've seen rain.
i've seen sunny days that i thought would never end

Looking into eyes that only moments ago he'd wanted to snuff the life from, Remi feels a dark sort of affection affixing itself to that gaze. It isn't the same love that was there before; similar, but not quite the same. "Only you." He whispers back. Without Aoife, those words have never been truer. Only you, because there is no one else. Remi won't let there be ever again.

"And you for me." And then the words he hadn't said the first time around: "I will only ever love you." A promise and a curse. Too much had been taken from the alchemist to ever let love in again. There would be Ronin and there would be no one else.

Cruelly, the sun began to cast brilliant patterns across the sky, and the waves lapped with a relaxing cadence against the beach. They'd all but erased Remi's tantrum.

"I can't.." He needn't say what it was he couldn't do, for it was the thing that neither of them could. The thing with eyes that may or may not still be flecked with starlight.