always more to learn

the lullaby

You are colors in the sky after forty rains

Priceless documents are reduced to ash and then further reduced to sludge as Ronin's water douses the heat. Unsure why he's meant to go to the middle of the room—certainly that seems dangerous?—Remi does as he's told, miming panic the entire way. "The books, Ronin, the—" As his husband fails to display the appropriate amount of panic, Remi stops where he is, turning on his heel and folding his arms confrontationally across his chest.

"You know, don't you." He asks, looking disappointed. Without waiting for an answer, Remi sighs dramatically. "You do." He answers for himself, and this time as Ronin snorts himself awake, it will be to see an entirely unburned library and a sulky looking alchemist sitting across from him.

'What gave it away? I could have accidentally caught on the Undercroft on fire. It is a new shift after all."

Storm or drought, Surrounded by fire or flood
With You I'm never without

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!