Lean Time For Heroes

Remi nodded. If he thought he'd been tired when he came up here with Sam before, he couldn't believe the state he was in now. Gently he placed a hand on Isla's wither, curling it up through her mane as if to reassure Sam that she was alright, and to reassure himself that she was still there. Isla nudged his hip with a complete lack of daintiness, sending him stumbling a few steps forward. With a laugh, he shook his head, before catching the end of Sam's words. "Yes you were right...she did. Ludo brought me to her and ... it ... we made a deal. It put her soul back into this body." Remi said, a bit slyly, for he didn't quite understand the details of it all completely himself. Remi received the hug with an exhausted acceptance, his arms more or less falling against Sam's shoulder as his head lolled forward. "I am sorry I left how I did Sam ... I knew you would try to follow and ..." I couldn't risk you messing up? Or running away again? Or slowing me down? "...If Isla really was gone, I could not have something happen to you too. I would not be able to take it." As much as she wanted to stomp and roll her eyes, Isla quietly—as quietly as four hooves on the polished stone floor would allow—made her way towards the infirmary. Four legs or two, she still had patients after all. REMI What have I become? My sweetest friend—Everyone I know goes away in the end If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way