Forever Roses < Legit - 2024 >

She touched the thorn again—deliberately this time.

Nona’s eyes, milky with age, were suddenly sharp. "He found it," she said. "The thing he went looking for. The place where time doesn't pass. Where roses don't die." forever roses

Elara looked down at the rose. The single drop of her blood was already gone, absorbed into the stem. She touched the thorn again—deliberately this time

Elara had never believed in things that claimed to last forever. milky with age