do you ever wish we'd met each other sooner? ( jeff for remy 😼 )
remy isn't the kind of person who deals in choices-- the opportunities to make any are few & far between. wishes, however, are entirely more her speed: she wishes in rhymes & soft lullabies. she has been wishing for the impossible since she was big enough to do so, and found that she often wished bigger than most around her. she wished to leave home, unaware yet that a wish and a promise are two different things entirely, and that only one of them brings you were you actually want to go. when that wish turned sour, she wished yet again, and her star guided to yet another prison. she is but a bird wishing for bluer skies, unaware that she will only ever deal with cages.
jeff is… well. she doesn't want to be unkind, so the thought comes up cloaked in shame, but jeff is like any other wish she has ever made. in theory, he is breathtaking, and she would do like nothing more than to stay near him. in reality, he is a liar and a thief and he would rather sell her heart on the black market than keep it safe.
baldur's gate is but a walk away, and soon the world will take on a new shape: be it from their victory or their failure, nothing will be quite the same. new songs will blossom, history will take on a new cloak. it makes sense that he would question time right now, when it is about to transform into an entirely new tapestry. beneath their feet, clear water flows. the night is bright and full of possibilities. it is a place for nostalgia, or whatever it is when you wish for a past that hasn't happened. remy finds a thousand justifications for his musings, and attempts very bravely not to read anything beneath the question.
she barely reaches the river, though she attempts it by dangling precariously over the edge of the wooden deck. with a sigh of failure, she does sit back-- aware, of course, that the question sits uncomfortably between them, addled by the bottle of wine jeff nicked from moonglow's stash a while back. "i don't know," remy tells him, ever honest, red eyes glowing softly in the darkness, looking anywhere but him.
"i doubt you would have let me stay, if we had met each other any other way. and i quite like being... well, here. with you." without a wriggling tadpole between them, an anchor of sorts, he would have run the other way. she is sure of it. she has seen many of his kind in the sewers of baldur's gate: friends that you would only keep an hour, before they would leave and never return. "why, do you?" pathetic little tell in the way her eyes grow in size, entirely too big and too sweet, as she turns to face him; hope colors the question, and what is hope but a wish without direction?