Alchemised

by SenLinYu

“I’m sure there’s something poetic in it all, but right now all I feel is a new set of manacles.” He let go and stepped away from her, heading for the door. “So forgive me if I dislike looking at you. I’m still adjusting to the ways these new ones chafe.”

“You are not expendable. You don’t get to push everyone away so that they’ll feel comfortable using you and letting you die.”

Of course the chimaeras were savage. How could anything endure so much hurt and not learn only to bite?

“He’s a god. You’ll notice that making humans die for them is the gods’ primary mode of operation.

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

Marino left the city at the start of the Paladian Civil War to study healing. She survived the war but died during imprisonment prior to Liberation. She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.