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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