For Science

remi The higher I climb the farther I fall when I do Tilting his head slightly the alchemist pondered over this for a moment. "I never thought of it like that before ... but yes, I suppose it is." The corners of his lips quirked for a moment and he smiled at something that previously would have made him frown. "I do not think we are even in the same...place if that makes any sort of sense. The stars are not the same in the sky." Remi's thoughtful expression dissolved into one that was slightly embarrassed as he shook his head, not having meant to sound so ... strangely speculative about the metaphysics of this world. "Ah yes. Forceful, that sounds like me." The alchemist chuckled, not realizing that the Remi Sam had known had indeed been forceful in many ways. "Well I know who I will come to first the next time I feel the urge to be seen as particularly gentlemanly." He replied with a laugh. With fluttery lashes (the ones Jigano so hated he'd now realized, though he could do little about it), Remi uncertainly endured the look Sam was giving him, until he explained. "Ah, yes. I do remember that. I was with Ronin catching a fish for her." Leaning back in his chair, Remi ran a hand beneath his shirt and up his ribs, stroking the flesh there that was still lined with scars. "Not all of it though. She left these for me." Glancing towards Sam earnestly, Remi nodded. "Lucky that you were there, you mean, regardless of what my memory would have me believe. "