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"You need a willing soul for that, and you're not going to find one, because the only person who'd die for me is you."

"What? You're not even going to ask me?" Atreus's voice rose tauntingly from the ground

Whaaaaaat did I just read?!

I - I'm speechless

"Just live, Helena." His voice was shaking. "That's all I'm asking you to do for me."

I've done things now that I don't think I'm supposed to be forgiven for. But I want to be remembered as someone who tried at least. 💔

"You are not replaceable", he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. [...] "You are not allowed to be important to people. The reason I'm here - the reason I'm doing any of this - is to keep you alive. To keep you safe. That was the deal.

I'm tired of this war. I'm tired of trying to save people and watching them die anyway, or saving them only to watch them die later - in a worse way. It's the same cycle, over and over. I don't know how to get out, and I don't know how to keep going, either.

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.