Mira had felt it. The edge of her sanity. She had no idea what it was, nor what it would mean if she ever fell from it, but she knew that it was there. At the corner of her mind, she could see herself hanging from it, desperately holding on to it, even as she felt the tears streaming down her face and onto the appendages. She had no where to go, no one to see, nothing to do. She had no purpose and no dream, those two things died with the loss of her life, of her innocence. The pain that had replaced her heart slowly began to replace the rest of her. It became so much that she had nearly become a lowly vessel to it. Then, an amazing occurrence happened.

A familiar warmth started to enclose itself around her, forcing away the chill of despair. It was like a light shining in the middle of the darkness, it filled her emptiness, it made her whole. Mira knew what it was, and what it meant. It was a warmth she knew very well, as it was what had filled her home, what made her community the beauty that it was, and who's absence frightened her the moment she had awoken. It was love, it was kindness. It was the feeling that built itself inside of you, that let you know that someone cared, that someone was there for you. In the light shinning upon the revelation of her death, she had assigned that feeling with life, and had believed that she would never feel it again in this cold, twisted world. But, as Mira uncovered her tear stained face and opened her puffy, red rimmed eyes, she saw something she had believed she would have never had seen in her life. Another person, a human being, and, to her slowly repairing but still broken heart, an angel. A wondrous angel of hope with eyes that reminded her of the sun she had missed, the sun that had shined over her in life. 

Feeling the arms that had enveloped her, Mira enthusiastically hugged back, her hands just barely interlocking behind the brunette angel sitting in front of her. Her eyes once more prickled with tears, but these tears were different. They were ones of joy. She wasn't alone anymore.