The door didn’t open.
It simply ceased to be.
One moment it was wood and iron,54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzL9198NKUo
the next, a hole in the world through which meaning spilled sideways.
The thing that entered wasn’t a guest.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8nguJPOQD
It wasn’t a thing.
It was hunger braided with memory.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkk7tgqne55
Shape wrapped in concept.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfICZGXIl4
Its presence cracked the edges of the bottles, though they made no sound.
Even the fire shrank.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pNB9uRc49
Not in fear.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCWxYN9eVk
But in reverence.
It did not move.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpccUPPQws
Movement implies direction.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQjBsg0tljj
It arrived in all directions at once.
There was no voice.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0dSAg8uPZ
No words.
But I understood:
“You collect them.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAYPXjjyVM
You keep what would be forgotten.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71iIpSpVIk
You hoard the echoes.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9V4iNMO0p
Why?”
I didn’t answer with my mouth.
I thought of every guest.
The broken, the joyful, the unfinished.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwn84YZuAq2
The ones who stayed. The ones who left half-healed.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoch8wGDqi
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.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMIE4o8QLl
A glyph.54Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfV4Nl3dhG
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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