baby you were my picket fence
Ronin spent his days wrapped in bed with Remi’s heat, with the press of his hands and the softness of his curls, pretending to sleep. Sometimes when he pretended too hard he actually drifted off - a mistake he tried not to make, given the nightmares that came to haunt him when he relaxed control of himself. But the Alchemist could not be around all the time, given his duties as Governor and the fact that he annoyingly had a life. So when Sunjata arrived, Ronin was alone.
It was the tap at the door that did it, in retrospect. Reminiscent of Longnights past, the knock echoed deep in the Star’s mind, and no amount of Attuned bond could drag him back from the reaction he was already carrying out.
The door flew open, but Ronin was obscured by the light that blazed from the starbolt in his hand, from the illumination of luxere antlers that crowned his head. The star was gaunt, circles darkening his eyes, and he wore nothing but a pair of sweatpants that hung loose on his hips and bandages that patched his stomach and arms. The rest of him was a rainbow of cuts and bruises, and there was little in his eyes to suggest he wouldn’t blast Jata to kingdom come.
Prove you are real.
It was the tap at the door that did it, in retrospect. Reminiscent of Longnights past, the knock echoed deep in the Star’s mind, and no amount of Attuned bond could drag him back from the reaction he was already carrying out.
The door flew open, but Ronin was obscured by the light that blazed from the starbolt in his hand, from the illumination of luxere antlers that crowned his head. The star was gaunt, circles darkening his eyes, and he wore nothing but a pair of sweatpants that hung loose on his hips and bandages that patched his stomach and arms. The rest of him was a rainbow of cuts and bruises, and there was little in his eyes to suggest he wouldn’t blast Jata to kingdom come.
Prove you are real.
i miss missing you
now and then
RONIN
