Darkness surrounds me. I’m not sure where I am or what just happened. But I feel happy and free.

There’s no pain or sound. Only the slow unraveling of light.

I float, not in the way leaves fall, but like a memory slipping from a dream. My body is behind me now, somewhere distant and mute. Ahead, a vast stillness stretches wide before me, painted in colors I can’t name. Stars pulse like quiet heartbeats. There is no time here. No breath. Only the feeling that something final has ...