[ She stiffens just slightly at her mother’s touch, and there’s a lump in her throat that prevents her from speaking for a moment.

Then she closes her eyes, and her shoulders slump a little as she releases a slow breath. ] I…I don’t know. The whole thing is…kind of a blur, really. I think I had…hit my head at some point? So I don’t remember a lot of it. Sometimes I can almost pretend it was…just a dream.

[ She doesn’t quite realize it, but the reason everything was so hazy was she had already been halfway gone. ]

I remember feeling…tired. And cold. And there was something saying to let go, but…but I couldn’t. Because Mira was still there, and I couldn’t…I couldn’t just leave her alone.