Adelaide

Voices came and went, but their words were lost. I wasn't sure when it happened or how, but the stress and formality of life had been washed away on a cleansing wave. Nothing mattered, not even my own consciousness.

My head no longer ached with the pounding that kept beat to my heart. Lights no longer blinded, and my body no longer convulsed.

In a place I didn't recognize, surrounded by voices I didn't know, I was content.

Such a strange word, ...