She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAiv1C0U2E
Not fresh blood.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gzHjCnJOz
Old earth.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPJlZG3ASG
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXn01wtplz9
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKalxQCBPG2
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvDVdRZMXs
Not to me.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXv2jHI2OX
To the room.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKwaAVrbYm
To the fire.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnv9uzZ6CKo
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodJ8xE4gr3
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUZFY4JW4Q
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4sd75kZ2m
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WCaur0JH0
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1BCNb4YIm
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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