MissAstraea

"Eh..?" A moment of weightlessness. A complete time stop. The red string dangles in front of my hand, just beyond my finger tips. If I reach forward just a bit, I can grab it. But making the movement is a mistake. My moment of grace is broken the second my hand moves forward. My stomach lurches as gravity takes hold and I begin to fall, the end of the red string starting to become distant at a rapid rate. Down, down, down, down, down. The string is a stripe of color, then a square of color, then a dot, and then nothing at all. Only darkness now. Down, down, down, down, down. I seem to be falling into forever. The fear that filled my mind when I had begun was now questions and confusion. Why was I still falling? Is there no end to this descending? Am I dead? Is this what death is? Tumbling into never ending darkness? Questions turn into reflection. Ah..I didn't do anything with my life like I really wanted. I wanted to see more places, do more things, keep tending to