Chapter 1: Death

The sun rose on a beautiful morning, as the birds chirped to greet the new day. People were already awakening to walk their dogs or go to work, and it seemed that everywhere you looked you could only see the peace and harmony of a functioning world. There was such a place that was unaffected by the cheerful atmosphere, however.

In a dreary hospital room, the curtains remained drawn even though it was nearly afternoon now. As the sunlight dimly illuminated the small room, the steady cadence of a vital monitor could be heard. The only other noise was the steady but shallow breathing of a young girl, dressed in a white hospital gown. She seemed to be a pretty little thing, with curly, dark eyelashes and long, black hair, one could easily mistaken her for a fairy with her looks.

Her left arm hung off the small bed carelessly, and it was thin, too thin to be considered healthy. Taking a closer look, you could see that her face was also gaunt, and her eyes sunken in, giving her an ill look. Tubes could be seen connecting in and out of her to the beeping machine, which still steadily did it's job. Suddenly, a gentle wind blew the only window open, moving the curtains to free the sun-rays to eradicate the shadows in the room, and it slowly moved over the girl's face.

Her eyes slowly opened in a struggle due to the sudden brightness, revealing a pair of entrancing purple-hued eyes, the color reminisce of hyacinths; the splash of color seemed so out of place in the depressing gray room. She blinked slowly, her fan-like eyelashes trembled at the effort, and her body was too weak to command her hand to protect her eyes from the light as she turned her head to the open window, the curtains billowing softly in the gentle breeze. After the sun had long fallen asleep and its sister the moon was high in the night sky, she, at last, turned her head back and sighed.

It was so soft that one could barely hear it, but it was successful in breaking the disheartening ambience of the hospital room. That soft interruption seemed to stop time for a moment, or perhaps a century, until it resumed again. However, the world was not the same as it once was, for complete silence had overtaken the room.

One solitary breath had been let out, followed by a long monotonous beep, until complete silence. Moonlight now shown gently upon the girl's face as her body stilled. She was pointed towards the lonely window, which seemed to have taken all her strength, but what she sight she would give her last breath to see is something that will forever be only known to her.