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Something moves.
A sound.
A light, too bright, behind her closed eyelids.
Cold.
Pain.
Voices.
Distant.
She trembles.
Hands on her.
She tries to move.
Nothing responds.
She opens her eyes. The light blinds her.
She closes them again.
When she opens them once more, there is only darkness.
And silence.
Her heart races. Panic swells, sharp and sudden.
Her thoughts scatter.
A bitter taste in her mouth.
A name on her tongue.
So close it almost hurts.
She tries to hold onto it.
Tries to say it.
But it slips away.
A feeling of floating, far away.
And yet her body is heavy. Immobile.
Something is wrong.
She struggles.
She doesn’t know against what.
But she knows she is losing something.
She falls.
And everything explodes.
Then there is nothing left.
Nothing but silence.
The void.