all i've got is time until the end of time

the lullaby

And if the sky grows heavy
wrap your arms around me tight; we'll be alright

Selfishly, Remi just wants to linger in Ronin's warmth, even if his husband's heat is fueled by the dark fire burning away the oil inside of him. He just wants to hold him close, to keep his fingers around a body he knows intimately, to know every breath is safe, to just have this one thing. Tilting his head to watch the creature that rises from the sand, Remi's brows furrow to see the small shape fall from atop the beast as light pours out from his husband's fingers. "What..was he doing up there?" The alchemist wonders as the scene fleshes itself out with sketchy details; Maea, and Melita, and Ronin. A dragon circling, and a man with a sword atop a monster.

It both does and doesn't register that ultimately it was Ronin who killed the dragoon. If the scene wasn't an exaggeration fueled by guilt, then it was the starbolts that overtook the creature—and the man on it.

"Did you know?"

If the ground gives way beneath us,
If we should fall to pieces
Find me where I first found you

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!