Threats from within.

[Emissary]

First comes the thought. Awareness of existence.

Far away echoed by irratic heartbeat.

Alive? Or dead?

One by one climbing from the cold abyss towards the shining light infinitely far above. A massive cave perhaps? It was impossible to tell. With no strength left and only held by sheer will she slowly but steadily kept moving upwards. It felt like eternity with each step made she began feeling the weight pulling her back stronger and stronger. Till she could move no further. This is it. Looking up brought no hope, her goal was still infinitely away. Below was the abyss. Empty void consuming everything.

Would jumping down end the suffering? But this isn't what he was taught. This isn't how it would end.

Between darkness and light. The moment of transition. The struggle was hopeless, the fall would be... so tempting, so easy.

Recalling known life, gazing into the abyss below... what was that she saw on the wall... the writings. One particular phrase. Something about memories and the abyss...

It was pulling harder, irresistible. The whole massive cave she was confined began falling apart slowly.

Descending from above a pair of swirling waves of pure energy came. Circling around her, as if waiting for something.

The stone she stood began to crack, pieces falling down into nothingness.

Memories... immaterial.

The abyss. It was pulling down material part. The weight. The burden.

To escape it's relentless pull is to give it away, to separate.

The energy waves were spinning closer and closer. The separation from material being. As she touched them... everything ever known was gone.



The sight quickly fades into bright haze, but in the last moment she saw own body from above, lifeless, falling down the abyss.

The first breath.

From this moment Lilly knew she was alive. Although she couldn't see or hear or feel anything apart from her own heartbeat. Thoughts decellerating, slowly descending into dreaming state, but knowing she has narrowly avoided falling into abyss... it was a relief, a rest ahead. Everything else can wait for now...