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RONIN if there's one thing i'm good at, it's surviving "Ah, you were never a filthy shapechanger commoner to me," Ronin said, tutting and smiling easily back to his friend, though it faded all too easily as they both began to voice the strangeness of his homecoming. "I know, but... I didn't choose to just show up." He pressed his eyes shut, tilting his head back as if he could see through the ceiling and up into the sky. "I was... happy. It felt like I lived lifetimes up there, with Vanya. On a sea of stars..." Drawing a shuddering breath and letting it out again, Ronin blinked his eyes back open and glanced down to Aoife. "Yeah, I... I don't know why, either," he murmured to Remi. "I'm sorry for just... barging back into your lives. Perhaps it would be easier if I left for now, and just... came by to visit at first."