She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.58Please respect copyright.PENANA9SgYsGoj3h
Not fresh blood.58Please respect copyright.PENANAGpyxHrHit9
Old earth.58Please respect copyright.PENANAp05VVLaFlI
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.58Please respect copyright.PENANANHHnwVE3gB
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:58Please respect copyright.PENANAwqGcfkZlfQ
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.58Please respect copyright.PENANAqY5CcsbE4U
Not to me.58Please respect copyright.PENANArzjXywS9uE
To the room.58Please respect copyright.PENANA4wbKv69xVP
To the fire.58Please respect copyright.PENANAmMU7BG2lLt
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,58Please respect copyright.PENANAWgbeAk4KWu
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.58Please respect copyright.PENANAqY4ZHJFWYE
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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.58Please respect copyright.PENANAn6LD5u4BWE
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.58Please respect copyright.PENANAA2WbV314Qd
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.58Please respect copyright.PENANA7vtrFMQZtJ
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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