The world dropped off and away, and all that was left was a cold, bright loneliness; the deepest sadness I'd ever felt. As the tears welled up in my eyes, my vision blurred causing the light to prism and separate into millions of tiny pin-points of color. I wept. My eyes cried, my body shivered, and my soul reached out for the love I knew I'd never touch again. The emptiness swallowed me entirely. Time stopped. Reality retreated. My soul died...

I arose from the ashes of my soul’s death, reborn into this calm, warm darkness with a crimson soul created from within myself. My pain retreated and my reality was restored even greater than before. My eyes pardoned me of their tears and allowed my vision to sharpen through the darkness. Time had passed while I died defeated, but now that I’d surrendered, the universe was mine to command. I set out to reclaim the love that was stolen from my prior life…