The door didn’t open.
It simply ceased to be.
One moment it was wood and iron,56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ejs7RHuAy
the next, a hole in the world through which meaning spilled sideways.
The thing that entered wasn’t a guest.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4KCwDxFgg
It wasn’t a thing.
It was hunger braided with memory.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFMjZ8NqPT
Shape wrapped in concept.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFlDQB9KpG
Its presence cracked the edges of the bottles, though they made no sound.
Even the fire shrank.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tGjPBGaIB
Not in fear.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcc7kxIhNMi
But in reverence.
It did not move.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbey0TNW2n
Movement implies direction.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED3DUibdTV
It arrived in all directions at once.
There was no voice.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5S3ZP4SJuj
No words.
But I understood:
“You collect them.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXj1oV001Gr
You keep what would be forgotten.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyYSEP75xd
You hoard the echoes.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkuh6nDeepl
Why?”
I didn’t answer with my mouth.
I thought of every guest.
The broken, the joyful, the unfinished.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfIh0g9LqR
The ones who stayed. The ones who left half-healed.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTaHOlsFH07
The ones no one else remembered.
I thought of the ledger.
I thought of the fire.
And I thought of the chair that is always empty but never alone.
The thing paused.
Or maybe the universe did.
Then, without form, it offered something.
A sound.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYDBr8tHJU
A glyph.56Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAFuJo1zXz
A flavor that tasted like entropy and lullabies.
I did not drink it.
I bowed.
And I said:
“Not everything is meant to vanish.”
It left through the ceiling.
The door was back. Whole again. But warmer.
The tavern has not shifted since.
But the stars over the window blinked a little slower that night.
And I brewed a drink I could not name.
I have not served it.
Yet.
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