Unfinished Masterpiece

Night at th

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d time. However, that night it had life. The path up the hill was lined with lanterns wounded on it. Inside there was a soft sound of of

th, clutching her coat around her.

glowed like a beacon of somethin

stone. The smell of aged wood and rain filled the air, mixing with something weak

quickly turned away. A few smiled gently-recognition wi

room, but there w

ere were hi

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iece caught

ge-windswept dunes, a lone figure seated at the brink of th

one she used to pass every day on the way to

simply tit

silver, with a single line of handwritten

ned, her t

mory. A moment Eli had

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radiant in a sapphire dress.

t sure I

w

But tonight, no one's asking questions. They're just...

dedicated to her own paintings-pieces she hadn't shared in years. So

alking through our

use he built

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just after i

. Eli. Standing in the entryway, a dark s

ill beautiful in the way that al

met acros

dn't

n't lo

er di

owly, deliberate

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beneath the glass where the beacon light us

roached, heart caught b

" he

athed o

moment, but full of eve

re of you com

w you'd invit

ile touched his lips. "Sophie

e surrounding works. "Yo

hispered.

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oices and laughter drifted below. Claire inserts her

said. "I wrote... a lot. But this

with trembl

r E

t. And

f us ever rea

ief. You pai

middle, we left the m

d up. "I didn't know if I h

lways had the right. I just didn

ld he

in life,it didn't

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singing its eternal lullaby. Inside, the lighthouse s

tood beneath the

tle longer?

d. "Just

heart, she

t leaving

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