He arrived in dusk-colored robes,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81WbuGM2cn
hands bare, but humming with something ancient.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPaIgLKTthf
He did not sit.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbtGPeNmxJ
He did not speak right away.
Instead, he stood at the tavern door and held it open.
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I looked.
Not just at the threshold.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5FQEM7Y85
Beyond it.
He said:82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfO1RtTuzmc
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“You’ve given them so much.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxSRFf5502
Let me give you something.”
He offered no reward.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPTLaVyutl
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Just a walk.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtuas910VFK
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“Come with me.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs8OFMkKgQf
Just for one moment.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzDivsecV2
The sky is turning a color it has never turned before.”
And for a heartbeat, I almost did.
The fire didn’t crackle.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3rjQMI2z6
It tightened.
The bottles on the shelf leaned slightly, not in warning but in ache.
Even the chair behind the bar felt colder,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPwMC8NA5H
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.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDR7GAY3j2f
Not a rule.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvASFBYP3Fz
Not a curse.
A vow.
Not to the world.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzKUShji2O
Not to the tavern.
To them.
To all who might still come,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2W8UaqxywO
needing silence,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64j4iKPQog
needing warmth,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdUOEZWjd0
needing to be known.
So I stepped back.
He said nothing.
He only nodded, like he had expected this.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcwmG8MTAR
Like he had needed me to choose,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIp9VvJAs6
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.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGkgBvwQW5
Bitter.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aYfFIyv8s
Gentle.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwfTqgMwnU
Grateful.
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