Darkness comes as strong protective arms, holding us close until the promised dawn. Within it we are as children once more, safe in shields of duvet. Yet in this place so open to the skies, resting in the cricket's lullaby, our eyes are as bright as the constellations above; our stardust atoms seeking the stars until they can bathe in the light of the sun. I did not know where I was and I did not know what had happened to me. The last thing that I remembered was Elmir looking at me with pain in his eyes and then cold and calculated knowledge that he could not do anything else with me. But what had happened after that? When I lost consciousness I could not understand what had happened. Where was I taken? But I remember the pain…I remember the pain and the breaking of my body into pieces…I

