Alchemised

by SenLinYu

“You exist, Marino. I think that’s reason enough.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don’t. They’re never going to tell it how it was.”