She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCZKm67fG9
Not fresh blood.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL2BhABGxpB
Old earth.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjbJbqdyRR
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQco4Yrs612
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyGDgy2X0a
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnpeubZP7as
Not to me.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXSSPel8HV
To the room.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ1rk2pSsTc
To the fire.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOVT1IihU6
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gXBEUj6jj
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtkCHHaHOs
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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.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuUk60PpbX
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjJ8OIDUZ1
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QPBmPczIF
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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