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“We were your family,” Alena said. “And you didn’t know our names.”
Outside, the first true dawn in a decade broke over the mountains. And the hero, for the first time, realized he had already lost the only battle that had ever mattered. yuusha ni minna
“Alena. We’ve slept back-to-back in the rain. You’ve held my hair back when I was sick from a cursed wound. I stole the Crown of Stars for you, and you gave it to a merchant for a horse we rode for two days before it broke a leg.” “We were your family,” Alena said
He opened his mouth to call after them— Alena, Kael, Elara, Finn —but the words felt foreign on his tongue, like speaking a language he had never bothered to learn. “Alena
“And you were a hero,” Elara cut in, her voice gentle but not kind. “But we were more than your tools, Theo. We were people. You just… never saw us.”