Will the Ashen One return to me today, I wonder…

As she tends to the embers of the bonfire at the Firelink Shrine, the Fire Keeper’s mind is filled with past dreams. Of her darling Ashen One, traversing the land of Lothric, lands of shadow, going beyond the fog into the Lands Between… Without sight she cannot see what you look like, but in her dreams you appear for her as clear as day.

My duty is to the flame. To want to see a world without fire, even someone who lives in it, is…

But she does want to see. If only briefly, she wants to see your face. She is the Fire Keeper. She does not have the means to be anything else. But, just maybe… she wonders what could be. If she could allow this tempting flame inside her heart to grow… is this love? Or sin…

Oh? The embers are reacting. My Ashen One… is returning?