[AN] Title kinda stolen from Nightwish's Escapist.
It all starts with a lullaby
He was singing, he noticed, eyes glued to the ceiling as, in the next room, a sweet voice sang a foreign song. Like that whistle, this song surprised him. It's not as if he didn't think the idiot could sing, but that, the few times he'd heard him, it was terrible. It clicked in his mind that the mage had been faking his musical ineptitude just as he faked that stupid smile. Afraid the voice would stop if he so much as rolled over; Kurogane lay motionless until he fell asleep. Only then did Fai stop singing.