can you feel the sun?

the lullaby

I had a dream about a burning house
You were stuck inside, I couldn't get you out

It isn't often that dragons fly over the Greatwood. Not even the one who lives within them tends to do much soaring. Though the alchemist can't imagine the ascended would try what they'd done in Halo in the Woods, still the sight of a dragon—Sunjata or someone just wearing his shift—has the alchemist up and padding through the Woods after the shadow of the great beast.

Conveniently the voice that rumbles from the creature's mind is not one so easily faked, and the accent has Remi almost instantly at ease. He might have just left Sunjata to his own devices if not for the strangeness of his presence. Though perhaps he was just looking for Ronin.

Ronin is up at the houseboat. The manticore offers conversationally from where he appears on the opposing bank. Though you will not fit that far upriver as you currently are. He adds, of Sunjata's enormous bulk.

I lay beside you and pulled you close
And the two of us went up in smoke

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!