Lanterns

Lanterns on the window sill always meant safety. Shining the way back to a warm type of safety the carefully crafted candles brought. Tommy's family each had one, Pink or green, even yellow. With swirling designs in the other candles colors. Tommy's candle was red.

But after Wilburs candle blew out after he died, Tommy didn't expect to see his candle accompanying the extinguished lantern on Phil's windows sill. Because- he could have done more right? He could have saved Wilbur or fought with Technoblade like he had secretly wanted too, but he hadn't. So now, escaping exile and stumbling through the tundra. He sees Three lanterns in his brothers window. He cries, because this must be a joke? Some cruel thing his dying mind came up with to comfort him? He collapses into the snow, hardly registering the crunching footsteps rushing towards him.