it's a funny old world

Ronin glanced across to Remi and smiled a touch as he instantly backtracked, shaking his head gently. "I know you didn't intend it in a callous way, Remi. It... it has certainly been a day. And you already knew you were moving in with an idiot, so I don't think a warning is necessary on my part." They had gone through enough together that, even with the gaps in Remi's memories, he should have realised that much. He followed the alchemist's gaze up the stairs, something like pain flashing across his face for a moment before he swallowed it down and dragged his eyes back to the ceiling. "She is," he mumbled, "in her own way, I guess. She can't ever really be gone, with Aoife here." He shrugged. Ceiling stars had the ex-captain brightening, strangely, calling back to times before even Vanya had stormed into his life and stolen his heart. "I would like that a lot," he said. ronin the long and lonesome road