Shattered Illusion Series
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It’s a Tuesday when Lio realizes. A normal Tuesday. It shouldn’t take him as long as it does— not logically, because he has never been one to stick his head in the sand and bury ugly truths, but, well. It’s harder to be the stoic, wise leader when the war is over—over a year over—and the people are free. He’s no longer fighting with fists and flames, now, fighting against people who kill and torture and maim, but with words and bills, against paperwork, and bureaucracy, and where the fuck to put commas in official documents. When his flames are gone, and his voice is hoarse from shouting, and the adrenaline is faded, but there is still more to do, and the world is still far from fixed, and his people are still so damn far from free. When the days drag on, it gets harder to maintain that war-torn, war-forged mask, and it gets harder to stay objective. It gets harder to survive on a day-to-day basis, even without emotions battling inside him, and something growing in their midst.
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Lio Fotia is pregnant. Lio wants the baby. He feels he cannot have the baby. 30K of me torturing my babe in a kind of character study ensues.
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- Part 1 of Shattered Illusion Series