He arrived in dusk-colored robes,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WoK882ogD
hands bare, but humming with something ancient.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZODoUM7Kg
He did not sit.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsr512Jiza
He did not speak right away.
Instead, he stood at the tavern door and held it open.
And for the first time in… I don’t know how long91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApDYgusKPY
I looked.
Not just at the threshold.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tb8cmxm3v
Beyond it.
He said:91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1dPOWkVsM
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“You’ve given them so much.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHWx2hmKUA
Let me give you something.”
He offered no reward.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rZ3ohyVss
No secret.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpUjnYRyFM
Just a walk.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTfUChCKrj
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“Come with me.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINJWjyZcUI
Just for one moment.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYY2O6XLuF
The sky is turning a color it has never turned before.”
And for a heartbeat, I almost did.
The fire didn’t crackle.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLQNGZ62lR
It tightened.
The bottles on the shelf leaned slightly, not in warning but in ache.
Even the chair behind the bar felt colder,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtBGYKC7ve
as if bracing to be empty.
I stepped forward.
Closer to the door than I had in ages.
I could feel wind on my fingertips.
But I remembered something then.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGYxiJLMMKS
Not a rule.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmARPi3dME
Not a curse.
A vow.
Not to the world.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CvxrLvLMi
Not to the tavern.
To them.
To all who might still come,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsSDj4PysJ
needing silence,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcbmMIYJJp
needing warmth,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YYjCaEKDM
needing to be known.
So I stepped back.
He said nothing.
He only nodded, like he had expected this.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8iZdwtVDz
Like he had needed me to choose,91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlkIccnync
so the choice would mean something.
And then he left.
The door closed.
The fire relaxed.
And I brewed something just for myself that night.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SRAKxY1tO
Bitter.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEmw0lHGix
Gentle.91Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8JEIQzx6u
Grateful.
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