[SE] from me to you

"She..." Ronin winces and rolls his eyes at himself, as if it's embarrassing just to admit to it. "She wanted me to take that passion petal again. For her. With her," he explains, and whilst he can't know what her full intentions were, given that the last time anything like this happened, Seren had happened, Ronin's reluctance becomes clear. "So I told her no, and so she took all of my abilities away." He lowers his hands, exhaling a long, deep breath, letting that sit in the air between them. To hear that Safrin adores him, though, he shrugs his shoulders and raises his eyebrows at Amalia, as if to ask does she? It doesn't seem like that right now. Either way, he hopes it explains his behaviour back at the Needle. "I promised Remi I would be safe," he explains further. "So while I agree with you - and I do, Ama - I can't go barging in there like I want to. Do you want to go back to yours? We can talk more." RONIN if there's one thing i'm good at, it's surviving