[SE] Manic moves and drowsy dreams

ADAM

Seal my heart and break my pride

Adam's mind was still reeling from the idea of Edrei being within five feet of a crown, so the news of a curse sailed by mostly unheard - at this point, that might as well be the case. He was about to ask if she wore hooped skirts or did her hair up in complicated structures when Remi asked about his own noble marriage; all he could do was snort. "What, you don't think I'm fancy? I'm hurt."

Once he was done pressing a hand to his heart and pretending to be deeply offended, he looked out to the sea and gave a distant, lopsided smirk. "Her name was Heidi. She ran away from her posh mansion when she was seventeen and we met cos I tried to rob her purse in a bar. She was the first person to ever catch me, and I'd been doing it since I was ten. We ended up talking, and then.." Adam shrugged and tilted his head left and right. "Had a great few years fucking around together. Stealing what we needed, doing odd jobs, seeing loads of places...and the sex was fucking amazing. But then we got the news, when we were both around twenty-two, that her dad was ill. Like, gonna-die-next-month ill." He remembered the moment they'd heard that, when he'd expected her to shrug it off but had instead seen the dreadfully thoughtful look in her eyes.

"She decides she wants to go back home. Apologise and be their little Duchess again...and be an honest woman. I was in love, I guess, so I said I'd go with her. Get married and become a noble tit. It uh...did not go well. I was born in the mountains in a village with barely fifteen buildings and I couldn't even fucking read." Adam snorted, though there was, not very far under the surface, a lot of pain in that time of inadequacy.

Anyway, it was Remi's turn to confess his deep dark secrets (this was all a bit much for a first conversation, but something about the beach before them and the war looming after this day made it easier to share, he thought). "I mean, d'ya do it? If you don't do it, then I think it's one of your best. Everyone wants stuff they shouldn't have, right? That's just being human. ....Even if you are a Demi-God, or whatever." As for himself? He sucked his teeth and shook his head.

"No. I don't think so. I didn't think so back when forever was just til forty or whatever-" Adam had never planned to get old. "-But now forever is like. Forever forever. That's a long fucking time. So I'm just gonna...take it as it comes, I guess. I don't know if Pet knows that."

I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide