Skipping pebbles

the lullaby

I had a dream about a burning house
You were stuck inside, I couldn't get you out

It's a strange thing indeed, to have seen Ray in the company of Wessex and Nate, and then to find her shortly thereafter deep within the Greatwood. A place that the ascended could no longer go. Perhaps that was why the Lullaby had chosen to appear as a manticore instead of a man, or perhaps he'd simply been in that shift before coming upon her.

Ray. Thought without much inflection, though his accent made music of her name just the same, Remi emerges from the Woods with his tail drawn safely over his back and his wings folded comfortably against his sides. Glancing down at her bag and the rocks starting to be piled within, he raises his gaze to look at her carefully for a moment. Last I saw you, you were in the desert. With Wessex and Nate. The insinuation of wrongdoing is clear enough in his mental tone, and though Ray wouldn't be the first attuned to have a soft spot for the ascended, certainly it made him wonder what it was she was doing here if that's where her priorities lay.

I lay beside you and pulled you close
And the two of us went up in smoke

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!