Blood and Badge
Catalina knitted something with wool.
Dante handed out marshmallows.
"Have you ever done this?" Matteo asked.
"What?" Antonio said.
"Being together. Like this. Without fear."The silence was brief, but significant.
Dante didn't answer. We couldn't before.
And now we can?
Now we can.
Matteo nodded, satisfied with the answer.
Andrea looked around. At Elena, his sister. At Dante, his brother-in-law. At Matteo, his nephew. Antonio, Enzo, Marco, Luca, Carla, Catalina. All of them, an unlikely family, built on ruins and blood and pain.
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