She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxYxifsg2v
Not fresh blood.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡezqgMiPrPE
Old earth.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlKEXRMZjf
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsly9HQx8FV
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGDLY1kjuV
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHMjFBL5jVP
Not to me.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDEGPJYrwy
To the room.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvnGxDSpLcq
To the fire.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PrSn9f9fl
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhrxPPXVLJ
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ816cZ6eEQn
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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.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKJXbCz4s2
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxxaSJf2Qt
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.40Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2vxyqouYE
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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