Pretend this is real for a while

VAI The huntress "Well I mean... that is hard to say, Remi." Vai paused with the deerskin to smile up at him kindly. "Do you think you would have ever ended up in a situation where that young man would have kissed you if not for what happened? Would you have wanted him to?" she asked, shrugging and resuming her task. Soon enough she had separated the pelt from the meat, leaving a reasonably grotesque carcass on the floor - but it wasn't anything she'd not seen or dealt with before. "Mm, and so could I. Though I doubt it would do much for your productivity, given how you'd constantly be in a state of blood loss." Vai straightened up, gazing across at the alchemist. "Remi, sometimes... sometimes you are your own worst enemy. You ought to give your overactive mind a break from itself every now and then." She smiled.