Alchemised

by SenLinYu

There’s no one left for you to save.”

screaming crying throwing up.

“Consider yourself the sole exception to that rule.

ahhhhhhhh

forgive me if I dislike looking at you. I’m still adjusting to the ways these new ones chafe.”

“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death

convenient. You are 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.” He searched her face. “They didn’t tell you.”

yesssssss

“Because I have warned you, if something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order of the Eternal Flame. That isn’t a threat, it’s a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the Resistance as Holdfast’s. If you die, I will kill every single one of them. Given that the risk to their lives is the only way to make you value your own.”

“Is this not enough? There are, undoubtedly, still unexplored depths to the potential misery between us. Shall we endeavour to achieve all of it?”

“You didn’t save me,” he said when he was finally capable of speech. “You just put us in hell for two years.”