AM I DEAD?

~TWO WEEKS EARLIER~

[LENA]

My senses abandoned me.

All I see is darkness. It was so quiet, like sound didn't exist at all. I felt nothing, even though I knew I should be in pain. I couldn't see my body. Maybe I didn't have a body anymore. I felt light. As if I were a disembodied consciousness drifting in an endless vacuum of nothingness.

But strangely, I wasn't afraid.

I drifted with no direction, looking for something that disturbed the pitch of blackness around me.

Am I dead? It's awfully lonely here. 

The last thing I remembered was falling. It was a long fall. I remembered immense fear, my stomach dropping, as I watched the canopy of trees hundreds of feet beneath me becoming larger and larger as I fell, knowing I would die as soon as I hit the bottom.