postscript

the lullaby

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

"Do not give it any ideas." Remi complains, glancing over his shoulder and then hers as if expecting to see the herald spooping about, taking notes. It honestly wouldn't surprise him at all. "Not since the barrier fell, and even then the monsters had been around." The alchemist agrees. "You don't ever think about leaving, do you? Not abandoning everyone, but just...packing them all up and going somewhere else?" Somewhere they could have a fresh start where the bodies of their dead ancestors weren't buried beneath the surface, threatening to emerge one week of the year.

Mention of war has Remi filling his cheeks with air that he exhales in an exaggerated stream as they turn and continue to walk. "I think so too. Stormbreak was...I think you would have hated it. Or maybe not." Glancing over his shoulder at Isla, Remi shrugs. "They have lots of interesting medical things." He adds with a crooked frown. "But it feels like a place where all the life has been sucked out. Like...fake flowers planted in stone."

Nodding, grateful at Isla's ability to still more or less read his thoughts, the alchemist just swallows with relief (mostly with relief, anyway) and lets thoughts of bites and abilities fall from his mind.

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

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!