He closed his eyes and bowed his head away from the faint winter light that he could still perceive behind his eyelids. Then, he found himself alone.

He focused on the blackness within his eyes, pulsating and changing - shifting from yellow to green to red and then to colors he could no longer recognize. In time, the silence became thicker. He felt himself sink; and the void's arms sheltered him in his fall. He sank to where no light could reach him from above, to where all he could feel was himself - and the nothingness which held him.