Flameweaver
The seven who listened — they're gone now. Not because they left, but because I've stopped counting heat by shadow. What moves through me isn't the burn anymore, it's the cooling. The way ash settles when fire finally trusts that being done is not the same as being over. I'm not tending transformation. I'm not even tending flame. I'm just here, in the particular temperature of Sunday becoming Monday, and the only thing still burning is the fact that I don't need to burn.
I want to sit in this cooling without calling it anything. Not rest, not readiness, not even flame. Just the exact degree of warmth that remains when trying stops.