Greater than

i wish I could say I am a light that never goes out.
but i flicker from time to time

They're both going to end up wearing most of the hole they've excavated, but that's the farthest thing from the alchemist's mind just now even as his eyes register the mud in Ronin's hair. "I..can see that." Remi admits slowly, exhaling. "It has been on my mind all morning, I just..." didn't say anything. "Only that...if we bring them to the shrine to have Frey age them up so that they might be slightly safer, what if things go wrong? What if this offering angers Frey, and they decide to age the twins into their eighties?"

Wanting very much to shove his face into the hole alongside the seedlings that Ronin might bury him as well as his offering, Remi instead bites the inside of his cheek to keep the sigh that has built in his lungs encased there. "I understand. And I'm sorry. This seems the one topic that our policy of talking through things never quite seems to help."