Nettle & Bone

by T. Kingfisher

People were remarkably willing to dismiss their own sight.

Then again, few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve.

Hate, like love, was apparently complicated.

But her heart healed, as hearts almost always do.

People who won’t shut up in life rarely shut up in death.”

“It seems like it would be lonely, to be that old and not care, but maybe she doesn’t care about being lonely, either.”

Nothing is fair, except that we try to make it so. That’s the point of humans, maybe, to fix things the gods haven’t managed.