She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0W4eRFIH2
Not fresh blood.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsebEg4rPn8
Old earth.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmVmn44mDg
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjA7APuJuoS
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbNk89NqpJ
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaE0Z1TNsX2
Not to me.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTQwtkwmjp
To the room.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9apZiqmkSG
To the fire.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWwjGPQF8N
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpBAs8BIU3
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDn2SsEF3OI
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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.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSu4yl3vPO7
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXLnb2PgZ6
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.65Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2L3ngsOhpS
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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and then Add to home screen.