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Chapter 50: Beautiful Scars

Nothing lasts forever.

There will come a day when every breath must take its last. Where every story must tell its final word.

She feels first.

The soft sheets underneath her hands, the mattress conforming to her body like she’d been lying there for a long time. She feels the blanket, its woven threads underneath her fingertips, caressing her body like a warm embrace. She feels the slight cold on her cheeks, the air colder than the warmth of the bed.

She feels a hand grasping hers, a relaxing presence as she awakens from her dreamless sleep.

She hears second.

The sound of breathing in the stillness. Her own and not her own. A heartbeat that slows, still dreaming as she rises from the bed. Her muscles groan, they flex like they haven’t moved in a long time, stiff and hard. Her bones creak and crack under the pressure, but she moves anyway.

She sees third.