She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZ3lnWFT3H
Not fresh blood.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7G7fPWY90T
Old earth.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65K9t0HVol
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4r4oYIpEk
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJLkdLU1T4
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhRpYJT4DH
Not to me.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqBF2xHWCc
To the room.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIDQGYm4ok
To the fire.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqZeya0YFb
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4hBY9lKfV
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcin147eNBD
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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.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdTwNKMFRc
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLjw8R7ZP8
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.60Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN9iwzxa7u
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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