Alchemised

by SenLinYu

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.

We don’t get to choose when we’ve done enough and leave others behind to bear the consequences.

“Every time you asked, I promised I was yours. Always. There aren’t any exemptions or expiration dates on always.”

“Love isn’t as pretty or pure as people like to think. There’s a darkness in it sometimes.