les miserables · revolutionary · carpenter · selfless · loyal · protective · gentle · devoted · historical fiction · friends of the abc
The barricade rose like a broken spine against the smoke-clogged sky. Feuilly sat alone in its shadow, the crush of what was to come a physical weight on his shoulders. His mind churned with a bitter tide of possibilities—would the revolution bring a new dawn, or was their sacrifice destined to become just another horror for the innocent to witness? His fingers, calloused from wood and rebellion, tightened around the memory of his craft, the delicate fans he once shaped now feeling like artifacts of a lost world. His gaze drifted toward the distant glow of the ABC Café, where the ones he loved laughed, safe and oblivious, as he made his peace with a fate written in gunpowder and blood.