Blades of wheat threaded up between her fingers, dancing against her legs and arms. They shone like spun gold beneath the sun and, as the wind swayed, they rippled like a the ocean's waves.

They were her fathers' fields. it was the land where she'd grown up, running wild with her brothers, where the massive plains of wheat were separated only by narrow meandering creeks and thin fenceposts. She imagined if she stood on tip-toe and squinted she could see the hazy shadow of the orchid where her father kept his prized apple trees and, beyond that, the very peak of the family's red barn.

The fresh, musty scent of earth filled her nostrils as she tentatively stepped forward, wet soil grinding beneath her bare feet.

The cloudless sky was massive, the horizon uncluttered by buildings or mountains or trees. Just pure land stretching out as far as the eye could possibly see and that sky - that massive, massive, sky - stretching on for days above her. She tilted her head back, letting the sun slant across her face and arms, warming her to the core.

It was like the most beautiful memory.

Her whole body urged her to run - to race forward through the rows of wheat and grass, back to the only place she'd ever called home.

But at the edges something lingered. Something that pulled her back and kept her from racing across those fields. Something that dampened that golden sunlight.

"Jules."

His voice. Her heat panted as she thought of him, now. She wished she could see his face. Tell him it was going to be okay.

"Jules, come back now."

He sounded so scared.

She faltered.

"Jules, I need you."

She didn't know it was in her to cry, but here they were, tears slipping down her face. They rolled down her cheeks, leaving behind cool wet tracks.

She could see his eyes now. Only those blue eyes.

She was lost.

"Jules, I love you."

The pain came rushing back, barreling through her veins and pulsing in her head. She crumpled as it overcame her, forcing her to the ground. The grass faded away in a blur of white hot agony and that beautiful endless blue sky vanished.