You did survive. You're not remotely human anymore, but like... Objectively, you aren't dead. That's pretty significant, isn't it? Even if some part of you doubts it. Even if you came back wrong, and there's a whole choir of your ghosts, of the people you'll never be again, you're still blinking your eyes at the weather outside. Even if you've lived enough lifetimes to qualify as a reincarnated immortal, if everything is running together like a painting in solvent. You did survive.

















