Taken or Given garden walking where the mist still

walking where the mist still clung to the earth

Guests left feeling lightheaded

She is stitched into the fabric of the house itself

and the weight of a promise that was never kept

the world seemed to hold its breath

Taken or Given garden walking where the mist stillYou dont find a scale like this. You take it quick, careful, knowing exactly how close you are to something that could end you if it chose to. The dragon notices. Of course it does. A shift, a breath, a flicker of attention that settles on you and stays there just long enough to matter. Long enough to understand that leaving with it is not something you get to do twice. It lets you get anyway. The smaller fragments come later, gathered where its