He arrived in dusk-colored robes,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mIlJD7xee
hands bare, but humming with something ancient.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVRBSq6aSq
He did not sit.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8UFkct7mX
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 long83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJMmCGZgJl
I looked.
Not just at the threshold.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAT6Cq81m5x
Beyond it.
He said:83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc75JffExrP
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“You’ve given them so much.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEgaL5M3P7
Let me give you something.”
He offered no reward.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsriAsoG9W
No secret.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20I7z6G3fr
Just a walk.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhza6ILiHe6
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“Come with me.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbz8N1dNnCp
Just for one moment.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ieKQA9swO
The sky is turning a color it has never turned before.”
And for a heartbeat, I almost did.
The fire didn’t crackle.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqHWkMHpkg
It tightened.
The bottles on the shelf leaned slightly, not in warning but in ache.
Even the chair behind the bar felt colder,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqJDQpPqpQ
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.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4Xza4kdqc
Not a rule.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzw4IDpyxT
Not a curse.
A vow.
Not to the world.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzckn1ganSJ
Not to the tavern.
To them.
To all who might still come,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8N1BXdXyp
needing silence,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhL9nNqGYP4
needing warmth,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLynDA7nj1W
needing to be known.
So I stepped back.
He said nothing.
He only nodded, like he had expected this.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWVOBN2lNx
Like he had needed me to choose,83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2M2ON6hnj
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.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1pI0JZVIi
Bitter.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUtwy9Uiv0
Gentle.83Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk6MLpBjD9
Grateful.
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