gratuitous violence; unnecessary, satisfying, heartbreaking
"Bittersweet," he tells her of the memories, because it's true. As far as he remembers, only Ashetta had called him such, and she is long in the past now, dead or missing (likely one then the other, at this point). Vanya probably would have called him by it as well, but she had never known him as a fallen star - only one with her in the sky.
Happy to leave those memories behind, Ronin's eyebrows raise a bit to hear that Hotaru knows how to get what he's looking for, and he follows happily enough as she turns to walk them back towards the outskirts of the Citadel. Falling into step beside her, he doesn't expect to hear the awkward subject of her tryst with his husband to be brought up quite so bluntly, and blue eyes gaze at her sidelong.
"He has," he murmurs. "We spoke about it when he got home. Though I can assure you that there's no need to worry about him - he's perfectly fine." Ronin can't even blame LeafChange for the quiet steel that lines his voice, because the season where the luxere in him becomes possessive is nowhere near just yet. Even so, here they are just the same.
Happy to leave those memories behind, Ronin's eyebrows raise a bit to hear that Hotaru knows how to get what he's looking for, and he follows happily enough as she turns to walk them back towards the outskirts of the Citadel. Falling into step beside her, he doesn't expect to hear the awkward subject of her tryst with his husband to be brought up quite so bluntly, and blue eyes gaze at her sidelong.
"He has," he murmurs. "We spoke about it when he got home. Though I can assure you that there's no need to worry about him - he's perfectly fine." Ronin can't even blame LeafChange for the quiet steel that lines his voice, because the season where the luxere in him becomes possessive is nowhere near just yet. Even so, here they are just the same.
RONIN
