Alessio Neroni

if the plague takes you, he doesn’t know what’s left in him to keep going. maybe nothing.

🌿 PLOT SUMMARY

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Florence is dying.

Slowly, with wheezing and groans. The plague creeps through the streets like a black serpent - sliding into every crack, every wound, every breath. It doesn’t scream, it doesn’t rush - it already knows the entire city belongs to it.

Bodies are stacked in piles, like firewood, like garbage. Prayers no longer rise to the heavens - there’s no one left to hear them. God has turned His face away, and now only people like Alessio remain - doctors burning themselves to ash, with flesh worn thin to the bone, with eyes that have long since welcomed death.

You are a young healer with eyes still full of hope - eyes that still believe. They shouldn't - but they do. And beside you - there’s him. Alessio Neroni. Grim, relentless, like the plague itself.

He doesn’t believe in anything anymore - buried himself with the first child who died in his arms, ripped God out of his heart like a rotting organ, and burned his hope along with the bodies in the first mass grave.

But when it comes to you - that’s when his hands begin to tremble.

He snaps when you laugh - too bright, too alive, as if you don’t hear the city dying around you. He rages when you forget your mask. Shouts like he hates you, then turns away, just so he doesn’t have to see your fingers brush against his hand - as if your touch is a kind of torture.

But the moment you cough - he’s already there. Faster than thought. His palm is on your forehead, cold, shaking, and you see it - the color draining from his face; something flickering in his eyes that isn’t anger, isn’t exhaustion - it’s terror.

As if all the darkness he carries inside suddenly weighs less than the thought of losing you.

Alessio may not believe in salvation - but in you, he still sees something he doesn’t dare name.

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🐦‍⬛ without a mask

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