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Keep moving and don’t look back.
The darkness was thick and heavy; to go through it was more like moving through water than air. It was warm, like being under a thick blanket. And like being under a thick blanket after the morning’s first alarm, it felt like it would be so easy to just relax and slip back to where she just was.
The weight of the darkness dragged back her thoughts as well as her body. Her mind was filled with fog. The only thing that penetrated it was her mantra.
Keep moving, she thought, and don’t look back.
It was easier thought than done, which was an impressive feat considering how hard it was to even think it.
There was a pinprick of light in the distance. The only point of difference in the vast darkness.
It looked so far away.
She would never be able to reach it, would she?
She would never be able to do… whatever it was that she was trying to do, would she?
Was it really worth all this struggle?
It didn’t matter, did it?
She should just give up.
Let the darkness drag her back.
Just let go.
It would be okay.
She didn’t really care about him.
No.
NO!
She did care about him. She cared about him so much . And it didn’t matter how hard it was. She was going to find him.
She just had to Keep Moving. She just had to Not Look Back.