postscript

the lullaby

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

"I..." The urge to argue is strong, but not as strong as Isla's logic. He'd been the naive one, he realizes now, thinking that the world would just up and let the ascended go and rebuild somewhere else. "You are right. At least this way we stay neighbours." He says teasingly, glancing at his feet as she kisses his cheek as if that might somehow hide his blush.

"Mmm." The alchemist hums noncommittally as he extends his stride to miss whatever bubbling mess Isla had hopped over. "Well, that would be nice." Not sounding terribly convinced and certainly not daring to sound hopeful about it, Remi twitches his lips back and forth before looking up into the sparse canopy of leaves and laughing. "Next time I see you, promise me we will go more than five minutes without talking about all the doom and gloom on the horizon?" It wasn't either of their faults, not with who and what they were to their people and to each other, but gods how he just missed her laugh. Her smile. Star watching and being ridiculous.

"But maybe I am the one being naive, now." He murmurs after a moment, realizing that those moments between them are likely gone for more than just political reasons.

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

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!