In the Dark

Thump.

A broken, exhausted, aching heart.

Thu-Thump.

The only sound in the darkness was the faint beating of this weak and tired heart.

A distant light seemed to be the only way out of the darkness, but it was far away.

'Alexander, are you there?'

'Alexa?'

Their hands touched in the dark. She knew they were lying on the floor, just feeling each other's presence. Apart from the distant light, they could see nothing else.

She did not recognize the sensation and controlled the panic. It wasn't real; it wasn't real.

He said,

'I know what the light is. Light is the way out. Not for the return, but for the restart.'

Alexa for a moment was confused, but then she understood.

It was what happened when the soul was no longer connected to the body. Either it was death, or ... that was how the Lotus-fruit potion got.

She wasn't feeling the pull trying to bring her into the body.