I Was the Hero, But She Turned Me Into the Villain

"Have you truly given up!?"

I asked her again, my heart aching.

Silence was her only answer.

She could no longer feel; her silhouette... seemed distant.

As if she had never belonged to me.

My hands wouldn’t respond.

My body, dragged down by the cold and the loss, was little more than an empty shell.

But even then, my mind...

my mind still clung to her, to that illusion of being together again.

It still longed for the woman who once held me when everything else was falling apart.

And in that last flicker, on the frayed edges of my consciousness...

another memory came.