tanglewood

are you really going to talk about timing in times like these?

"Nor did I, when I was younger." Though he was only a few years older than Maeve, at 21, he still had many heartbreaks before he wound up with Ronin. That was likely little comfort to her now, so instead he tries something else entirely. "But now you have this—" Nodding toward her stomach, not feeling permitted to reach down and touch her over and above where his arms already cradled her. "—and I can promise you that the love you feel for that life will dwarf and outshine anyone else. There might be days when it is still lonely and hard, and raising a child alone is not easy, but...that love is unlike any other." Now it is Remi's emotions that sparkle darkly as he remembers weeks that faded into months that he kept himself hidden away from the world with only Aoife to give him life.

'If the feather is meant to burn, perhaps she would want one of mine all the more.' Remi counters slightly. "Reducing some part of me to ash might be precisely the sort of thing Safrin would like." Her words wipe the playful smile from his lips as he gazes down at her. "I cannot say there are many who have done what you have, for me." Remi replies softly, his fingertips and feathers stilling for a moment. "That is something I will never forget."

remi

Styling stolen from Sky (obviously)