She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7twK4sccUQ
Not fresh blood.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuO80X6I5wC
Old earth.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMa7a2IVBg
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo45ub7RamS
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHkTi7tglHD
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsU1wyHVqY
Not to me.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIQPCdV21h
To the room.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyI2KWuXXW
To the fire.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjPJRDbhNq
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8Xs7JxGmj
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQNivPcK6R
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“This place… I didn’t dream it, did I?”
I shook my head.
She nodded once.
And then, she closed her eyes.
Not in death.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqVnnrO3G7
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInezlsdtXW
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.24Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWP5nQEFKS
But I know she was here.
And if that moment was her last.
She chose it.
And the tavern remembered her without needing to ask her name.
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