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The Girl With the Azure Hair
100 Faces in 100 Stories — No69
1 min readMar 10, 2023
I saw her standing on the shore before the fleet came in. Her white dress trailed behind her at the wind’s whims, but what caught my attention was her hair, its color like a blurred summer sky. The strands would have fallen through my hands like water or butterfly patterns in a garden.
But I couldn’t let my gaze linger long. I had a job to do.
I would be going on one of those ships, perhaps off to my death.
But at least I had caught sight of one last thing that was beautiful before war tainted my vision.
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