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There was nothing, but darkness in that place. Time no longer existed. There was no pain, no sadness, no happiness…just nothing; and that was fine. When you feel nothing, it's not so difficult to exist in such a place.
Her memories were retained, as was her soul, but her body—the thing that had housed her for almost three decades—was long gone as far as she knew.
There was a peaceful to the darkness and the quiet. Occasionally, someone would flash past like a freezing cold wind on an Autumn day. It startled her at first. Now no longer.
Then, in a moment that was as ordinary as all the others there, the darkness split to reveal a pinprick of light in the distance.
She would have squinted at the sudden light, had she still had eyes to squint.
The light grew and widened, as if it was racing towards her. The closer it got, the more she noticed the pale blue ring that surrounded the light.
It grew and grew, until the light became all she could see, swallowing her whole and pulling her from the darkness that had housed her.
And then life began again.