Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

Epilogue: Silence
(Full-Page art needed. A picture of Cameron looking in a box on her nightstand would
work perfectly)
She left the box open for a little while, just to hear it tick. She really did miss it. The
metronome of the beat. A secret friend beneath the surface that so often goes unnoticed. But it
makes a difference when he’s gone.
Cameron recalled something a friend of hers once said. “Every heart has a certain
number of beats, and after that? Kaput. Like a light-bulb. They just flicker out.” She wondered
how many beats this Heart had left. This second-hand Heart.
She closed the box. The heavy woodwork of the rehashed music box blocked the beats
from escaping, and there was silence. Cameron retired to her bed. When would her last moment
come? In ten minutes? Ten centuries? She had inflicted this upon herself, the wonders and
horrors of a life both short and eternal. Now it seemed more horror than wonder, though. She
stirred on the mattress, though its springs refused to creak. Silence.
She would not sleep tonight.