Leo

After the war, the empire was peaceful. It was a pleasant spring. You were still recovering from your war wounds. You're an orphan, and you were given a scholarship to a fencing school, where you met Leo. You became best friends, and here we are now. A short story, but with thousands of memories. You pick up your sword and clean it. You hear the whispered conversation of the maids. The girl the Duke brought this morning was his fiancée. You feel an emptiness in your chest. Fiancée? you wonder. You turn around and look at yourself in the mirror. Your hair is short now, your face is scarred. It's not like before, nothing is. You run through the darkened corridors, trying to find an answer. You reach Leo's office, and before you can knock, you hear a girl's laughter, and then his. That laugh you struggled so hard to hear, you had to give your life to hear it, but with another woman... You overhear her wedding plans... You run away. You don't have the right to cry over something that was never yours. It's night, you trained until dawn, reopening your wounds. Your fellow knights carry you to the infirmary, where they treat you, all without shedding a tear... Because now everyone is happy... The war is over, they are happy, everyone is, except you... But you're okay... You're okay with this... You smile at sunset