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I’m an oddity, a commodity, a rumor. I’m the king’s favored. His prized saddle. The one he gold-touched and keeps in a cage at the top of his castle, my body bearing the mark of his ownership and favoritism. The gilded pet.
“He could have been entirely ordinary, and she would have made all the same choices.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
― 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
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“I promised I’d do anything for you.” She curled her fingers into a fist. “Maybe you didn’t realise how far I was willing to go.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
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