I awakened... but nothing was the way I remembered it.
There was no pain.
No noise.
No rush.
Only a strange kind of peace... and something inside me beginning to change.
I tried to hold on to the life I once knew.
But it no longer fit.
And then I understood.
This was not about what I had lost...
but about what stood before me.
Because there is something no one else can do for me.
Choose.
And this time...
I knew my decision would change everything.