that's the thing about pain // it demands to be felt
What Remi hears starts out reasonably enough. LongNight protection to have Vanya's soul plucked from the sky to live in Mort's realm. But oh, how things change.
She lies.
Ludo's warning is well-timed of course, the Lullaby's green gaze already growing black with predatory rath. Now it isn't the raggedy herald's whose throat he wants to sink his claws into, but Safrin's. That she lied to Ronin, that Vanya was up there...that Aoife was alone.
Reaching out for Mateo the second he's offered, the alchemist holds the baby close. Too close perhaps, for he grumbles and tries on a scream of protest until Remi relents and holds him less tightly. Heart pounding and cheeks flushed with heat and fury, the alchemist raises his gaze from Mateo's face to Isla's. "To myself?" Remi mumbles, uncomprehending. The potential realness of Mateo something his mind simply can't understand. This boy was a dream.
Could such a thing be made real?
"Wouldn't it be worse for Safrin for Ronin to know the truth? And give us this life?" He wonders, the hope in his voice painfully heavy.
She lies.
Ludo's warning is well-timed of course, the Lullaby's green gaze already growing black with predatory rath. Now it isn't the raggedy herald's whose throat he wants to sink his claws into, but Safrin's. That she lied to Ronin, that Vanya was up there...that Aoife was alone.
Reaching out for Mateo the second he's offered, the alchemist holds the baby close. Too close perhaps, for he grumbles and tries on a scream of protest until Remi relents and holds him less tightly. Heart pounding and cheeks flushed with heat and fury, the alchemist raises his gaze from Mateo's face to Isla's. "To myself?" Remi mumbles, uncomprehending. The potential realness of Mateo something his mind simply can't understand. This boy was a dream.
Could such a thing be made real?
"Wouldn't it be worse for Safrin for Ronin to know the truth? And give us this life?" He wonders, the hope in his voice painfully heavy.
THE
ALCHEMIST
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
