" every bone, every muscle just aches. "
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There’s blood on her hands, blood on his too, even if they can’t see it right now. They feel it on their skin, a memory of years past and battles won, of crushed bones and broken limbs. Sometimes those sins are too much to bear. He feels that weight too.
❝ we’ve been through a lot. we’re not at war anymore, but it still feels like it, you know? like it never really ended. ❞
Soldiers never truly leave the battlefield, do they. It’s been years since they put on their armor and went marching off to war, and though their weapons are old and rusty, though new flowers have grown where armies once marched, still it feels as though they’re just waiting to be called off to the frontlines again.
Still they are soldiers, just waiting to go home.