My Last 100 Sunsets

In her sixth year running an inn in Rimevale, Alice Graham is diagnosed with bone cancer. She leaves the inn to her fiancé, Eric Jones, and travels to Varenia with little more than an old enamel mug, where she begins a livestream called My Last 100 Sunsets, turning the camera each evening toward the snowcapped mountains and making coffee just out of frame.

On her thirty-first stream, a viewer spots the mug's V-shaped chip, and the chat recognizes her as the woman from Veylune Inn. Eric demands her location, but Alice already knows what he does not: the night before chemo, she returned for her documents and heard him with their receptionist, Denise Snyder, in the bed she had chosen for them. Standing outside the door, she accepted an assisted-dying clinic's confirmation email.

As more than 100,000 viewers gather, Denise joins the stream under a false account and lays out four months of messages, while Eric floods the chat with explanations. Alice keeps her face hidden, nudges the mug toward the center of the frame, and retitles her next stream for Denise to finish her story.