#redemptiondoesntmeandeath

Summary, and Link to AO3 - 

It was barely dark when Arthur slumped backwards onto the cold rock, the sky just beginning to brighten with the new dawn. His breath rattled in his chest, the all too familiar pain, like a thousand tiny needles stabbing at his lungs, now almost unbearable with every inhale. Pain was everywhere. His battered body felt broken.

Arthur waits to die on a cold, Ambarino mountain, but he didn’t figure on a good friend with a gut feeling he refused to ignore.

Given an unexpected second chance, Arthur has to think about moving on from his past, and living a different kind of life.