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OLD FLAMES

The ones in the sky could see everything below.

So he had come again to ask her. She watched him as he walked up the cloudy palace steps.

"Why won't you tell me where he is?" he demanded.

"You left me over this quarrel."

"You refuse me this one thing!"

"You'll die."

"I don't care."

"I do." She paused, an alien expression on her face. "And I will not tell."

With that, he left, left her again, going back down to the world to live and search.

She watched him go, hating her for her information.

But still alive.