Lean Time For Heroes

"Mmmhm." Remi agreed. "It is not the first time it has helped me ... though it is one of the only times it has not tried to kill me." He added with a crooked smile and light shrug. Remi accepted the cuddle without thought, the hand behind Sam curling slightly to trace absent patterns against his back. Already Remi's breathing had grown slow and deep, his eyes fluttering shut for longer and longer bouts in between. But the words I lied injected adrenaline into a heart that could bear no more, and Remi's stomach turned to ice as he tilted his head towards Sam. "You—" Remi started, then fell silent as his ears began to ring. Remi had gone out thinking he didn't have a hope in hell of finding Isla or her body. And all the while, Sam knew she would still be there. His forehead crinkled as confusion infected his mind, making everything hard to understand. "So..you knew..." The alchemist tried again, lips parting as a staggered breath left them. "..she would have been there...and you knew she would have been.." He swallowed. "Sam. What happens to the bodies. Why do they disappear after LongNight ends?" 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