Proserpina

I felt the white light around me fade away gradually.

A sense of being in unexplored lands overcame me. 

I saw myself turning away, facing a land that lay in front of me, familiar and new, all at once.

And then I was opening my eyes slowly.

My heart swelled with trepidation and a deep unrest, a disquiet. And with it, a longing. A desire to return.

Return where? asked my rational brain, kicking in at once.

I opened my eyes ...