angry tears threatened strangulation

the darkness crept up on me again and surely it would have kept me captive forever.

there, cold snapped bones like branches-- i was in my faraway place then.

my tears were becoming a sea.

and yet, out of the mist, came a figure. small, blond, abundantly bright.

who DARES to come touch me in my faraway place?

"it is i" she glittered

"it is i" she gleamed

idontknowhowtobreatheanymore!

"here", she murmured, "like this"

i breathed, once. twice.

and slowly, i began glittering too.