I think I died.
My whole body felt numb. I was back in the whiteness. The place where I had talked to Ara last. The place where I had morphed with Gimmel. It was becoming a very familiar place, even if it was just a vast stretch of nothingness, where everything felt the same and different at the same time. I tried to find Ara, and when I had walked and walked without spotting her, or anything else for that matter, I resolved to find Gimmel.