frostbite

I've been sleepwalking, Too close to the fire
But it's the only place that I can hold you tight

The water feels warm against his skin and though Remi childishly wants to remain coiled and hardened against the world, he feels his shoulders and lowerback relax beneath the heat. It feels like a betrayal to Vai to feel anything that isn't hatred or grief even if the witch would laugh and pinch him were she here to see him acting so.

But she wasn't. And it was precisely because she wasn't that Remi felt his teeth click together while he pressed a fist above his head against the wall. "No." He agrees. "I thought maybe I could slip into her dreams without her knowing...let it seem like just another walk in the woods, but.." The smile that forces itself onto his lips hurts far worse than any bodily injury he'd ever sustained. "...well. She was always far more clever than I was."

Digging his fingers into his hand where claws threatened to cut the skin of his palm, Remi gives his head a slight shake. "I would have brought you with me...or brought her to you, if I could. But...Ludo, it...it does not work like that."

the lullaby

Styling stolen from Sky (obviously)