Liora It was endless. It seemed I had been falling for ages. My mind was a blank canvas and I could not think of anything, not a single important thought besides the feeling of the chill air fanning over my face, like the caress of a Goddess. After what felt like a lifetime, when my body finally plunged hard into the dark freezing water, the piercing pain of the mighty fall—that seemed to crack every bone in my body—was laced with just a bit of the cold relief I felt on the patches of my burnt skin. I have no idea how my body could feel the comfort the water on my mauled skin brought over the mind-numbing pain in my bones, but even this tiny reprieve and consolation was also very short-lived. The familiar warmth that would always embrace me when I was underwater, my very natural inst

