my heart is yours to break

right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up

"I told Vi as much." Remi says, nodding distantly. "That I don't want you to be a crutch. Or to have to follow in my wake, or.." He shakes his head. "Sometimes I feel like this is a game to Safrin and Ludo. Pinning us against each other. Making us work together in opposite ways, just to see what might happen." And honestly? He wouldn't be surprised. He can picture the scoreboard in his mind, Ronin's name with hearts around it and Safrin clapping with every point he's awarded.

"Maybe not even the racism, just how it affects me, then." Remi replies. "Stormbreak wants Nate dead. Isla. It feels like living in Northaven all over again, only this time I have the PriVilEgE of being born on the right side of things."

Remi bites the inside of his cheek, but that only deepens the dimples that appear. "And yet you put your nose there so often." The alchemist says with a haughty sniff. "But I suppose you don't have much of a choice, since you're so much shorter." He adds, unable to hide his smirk now.

"Did you just suggest I become a pirate of the skies?" And Remi is grinning now before Ronin can clarify that no, it absolutely isn't what he said. But his joy comes too quickly and the alchemist feels a bit nauseous with it. "I'd love to see Jack's face when I park my ship above his."

The Lullaby