The Summer Bonfire Festival (Year 20)

It felt like every year that passed the bonfire became a bigger and bigger event. She knew that was bound to happen the more friends and allies that Artorias gathered for The Hallows, but it still surprised her each year just how many wolves came together for what had begun as a simple moment of remembrance. As always, she prepared a branch for Resin for the fire and she placed it next to the others with a little smile. Slowly as the years passed the ache and the pain of loss dulled. More and more as her own age crept on her she felt more inclined to think of the good and the nostalgia than the bad and the heartache. Most years she would move around the crowd, greeting everyone and spending bits of time with her children and grand children, but this year she was feeling wistful and instead sat back, finding a good vantage point to see everyone else interacting and enjoying each other's company. She didn't plan on staying long, just long enough to see Artorias light the fire, and then she'd go back to her den for the night. Still, just being here and seeing everyone made her happy.

Tamsyn Carpathius of the Valley