Eliose:
Darkness didn’t feel like death. It felt quiet in a way that unsettled me, a silence so deep it seemed to press against my skin and sink into my bones.
It was as if everything had been stripped away at once: pain, sound, even thought itself, leaving only a hollow stillness behind.
Then something pulled me back.
It wasn’t forceful or violent. It was gentle, almost tender, as if whatever held me refused to let me slip away completely. Warmth spread through my chest first, then my arms, then everywhere, until my whole body ached with the shock of returning.
My breath hitched, and for a second it was like my world was coming back to me in a way that I couldn’t even understand.
Air rushed into my lungs as if I had been drowning, and my body jerked as sensation came back all at on
