sipping silly chartreuse champagne

remi Took a fall from a windy height, I only knew how to hold on tight & pray for love enough to last all night The Alchemist tried not to shake his head at the idea he was anyone to look up to. He never had been, and it made something in his chest tighten uncomfortably to hear the words from Oliver's lips. But if it was what the other man had thought, so be it. At the very least, Oliver had presumably learned his lesson that Remi was not at all anyone worth trying to imitate. "I..did just mean at the time." Remi offered in a low voice. "I was dealing with everything, and you.." He chuckled slightly, green eyes falling across Oliver's face with a slow shake of his head. "You wanted to talk about the composition of rocks. You didn't do anything wrong, not really. But I won't lie to you Oliver, at the time, I could not have cared less about the things that interested in you. When you showed up talking about my wagon, asking what I'd been up to and trying to tell me all the things going on in your life, Ronin and I had nearly...well, we'd nearly walked away from each other." The Alchemist exhaled, closing his eyes for a moment and then taking a deep breath. "I think it was all just bad timing and a great lack of patience on my part."