“They were the inverse and counter to each other. A healer and killer, circling slowly, the push and pull inexorable.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Sometimes she wished she’d died in the hospital with her father, to be remembered and mourned for her possibilities, rather than live day by day growing ever lesser. Now it didn’t matter if she’d been an alchemist, or a healer, or anything else. To anyone who ever learned of it, she would only be that one thing. Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“I’m sorry—I’m sorry—I’m so sorry for everything I did to you,” he said, his voice hoarse and broken. “I love you. You left, and I’d never told you.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“What if it’s not that simple, though?” she said “Everyone who wins says they were good, but they’re the ones who tell the story. They get to choose how we all remember it. What if it’s never that simple?”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
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