arms give away your need
"Of course I didn't know." He doesn't mean to snap, but it comes out like a whipcrack nonetheless. Shuddering out a breath, Ronin shakes his head in an apology and holds his husband closer, pressing his cheek against his curls. "I don't know how he got up there - no one saw him do it. He must have been shrouded by something, but I..." Ronin scowls off into the dreamscape of sand and bones.
"I brought him back here, to the barracks. Made sure his family were told, made sure he was left somewhere that they can arrange a funeral. I got Mateo's bone." It sounds pointless now that everything else has happened, but Ronin can't seem to stop, as if the mundane will put a bandage on the horrific. "And I was able to get things from the wagon, from the man who put up the notice. I got something for you both."
"I brought him back here, to the barracks. Made sure his family were told, made sure he was left somewhere that they can arrange a funeral. I got Mateo's bone." It sounds pointless now that everything else has happened, but Ronin can't seem to stop, as if the mundane will put a bandage on the horrific. "And I was able to get things from the wagon, from the man who put up the notice. I got something for you both."
tie them up and around me
and play me as you please
RONIN
