[SE] going under

i kept falling over, i kept looking backward

Really? That's the last thing we need? Remi wonders with a flicker of amusement that's quickly swallowed by his upset.

Shivering—it's for the best they left their clothes on the beach for all the good they'd do them now—wings sprout from the alchemist's shoulderblades to better help him tread water. She might be worried about swamping him, but Remi has no such hesitations. Reaching out and tugging her against him (is this what being an ascended feels like? he wonders distantly, his skin already growing numb such that the feel of her against him was almost entirely blocked), he breathes an unsteady apology into the curve of her neck. "I have...well. I do know what came over me. But I had no idea." He knew she knew that, but still it didn't make it better.

"I never want to hurt you." Narrowing his eyes back toward shore and seeing nothing of the flicker of Torchline's light, Remi hums to himself. "One of us could shift and carry the other." He suggests. He's strong—they both are—but it would be quite a swim. "I do not think I could get airborne, wet as my feathers are."

i went broke believing that the simple should be hard

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