you're living make believe

REMI

the alchemist

I've said that hope I'll never find
To my myself I must confide

"And some of us are." He says with an equally cheeky smile, before his expressions sobers somewhat. "You would make a good ruler, you know." Remi's gaze is soft, fixed somewhere near her shoulder before lifting. "You are clever and kind, but just. And—" He holds up a finger. "—those who do not actively seek out leadership are usually the ones who are all the better for the job."

Waiting for Isla to sit first, not out of chivalry but a want to be near her, Remi sinks down next to her on the couch. "Oh no, I only meant...if it was done, we could rule out the Order as having a hand in this." Biting the inside of his cheek, he mentally makes a note to have Ronin dig up what information he could. "Me? No" Looking lazily over at Isla the alchemist smiles and shakes his head. "I will never join them." The leash he was on was plenty tight. He didn't need another.

"Isla.." Sounding suddenly more serious, Remi turns toward her. "Had I not..." murdered your patients "..what would you have done if your patients had been left to live?" In his mindseye he can imagine her at their bedsides, clutching their hands and promising not to leave. Would she have done what he did, in their final moments? Administered something to take away the pain that they needn't burn alive? Would she then have made her own escape?

Or, given the inevitability that came with the lives Ludo had him take, would the trio simply have burned up together?

That there's no choice outside your mind
when your heart is overthrown

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!