you could have been all I wanted

the lullaby

Love isn't all that it seems
I did you wrong

Are you really prepared to ask me to choose? To threaten it, yes. To dance around it, sure. But to ask it of him? To see if Remi had really meant it when he said he'd put Ronin before all else, a category that necessarily included his own flesh and blood?

Having been this sort of monster long enough, Remi is able to keep his paws firmly rooted in the riverbed despite his husband's taunts. Even so, his ears pin back into his golden tangle of mane and his lips pull up in a snarl. Ronin's belly looks as though its been torn straight out of the night's sky, and mercilessly Remi wonders if Safrin has included Vanya's star. Where else could such a shift have come, if not Safrin?

And what timing the goddess had.

I love you. Remi thinks, though whether or not Ronin has gone too far to hear it, he has no idea. Pulling in a breath, never before have their respective titles been so darkly telling: The Greatwood Guardian and the Dragon of the Greatwood.

And yet only one was capable of killing the other.

~FIN

I'll stay here with you
Until this dream is gone

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!