my heart is yours to break

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

"Mmm, I was going to ask Ludo for some sort of...charm-shield for him, to keep me away. I offered to forget about him entirely, and he said no." Remi's laugh is dangerous and low, and perhaps a little mad. It was the flip side of what he's said before about Finn: he was clever enough not to get himself caught, and also to keep Remi trying. So it felt, anyway. "But I got so caught up in everything I haven't had a chance to speak with it yet, and ask." If either of them knew about Finn's connection to Safrin Ronin might indeed have an easier time of things. But as it stood, Ludo seemed an obvious enough option.

"She is. " Remi murmurs of Isla. Alright in terms of what LongNight had done, at least. "I think they did it...stopped the monsters. The Grounds seems to have all but burned to the ground, but..." Hey, what did ascended need houses for, anyway.

"Have sex with Isla?" Remi clarifies, blinking rather naively across at Ronin. "I..." Yes and No flash before his eyes, leaving the alchemist exhaling out a stream of confusion. "I don't know. It...can't ever be a spontaneous thing, given she has to be in that place, and I also might...gone a bit overboard.." Rubbing the back of his neck and not even daring an apologetic smile, Remi just swallows hard. "It wasn't just that it was rough, it was...relentless. I was relentless. And I don't want to be that, to her."

The Lullaby