She arrived with her coat torn and her boots red with dust.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHdx1FMob6
Not fresh blood.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPkm5tMz11
Old earth.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKg9BGNRTV8
Walked too long and far to care what clung to her.
She did not collapse.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0dYPkxGll
She did not cry.
She ordered nothing.
She sat, looked at the fire, and said:39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehkP8ahzKQ
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“Even if I die here… I shall have no regrets.”
She said it simply.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlQ8v90vxpI
Not to me.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeh0S5384XN
To the room.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCx6OcTOYrC
To the fire.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgZWafpNhM
To herself.
There was no ceremony to it.
I brewed something light, fragileroot and sunpetal,39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbT3kHTndMh
the kind that holds no bitterness, no memory, only warmth.
She smiled, touched the rim, but did not drink.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl38lVsP7ee
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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.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIr71TyDiOB
Just in rest.
She stayed the night. She left at dawn.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkTbN5hOgq
Left the drink untouched, glowing softly.
I do not know if she is still walking.39Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybttthJr5r
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.