One of Us

Chapter XVII Fliss

XVII.

Fliss

AND WHAT COULD SHE TELL THEM NOW, the ones she has left behind? Does she feel anger or resentment or pain? Does she want revenge? Is there bitterness beating through her airy soul?

No.

There is only love. She is untethered and light and free.

The realisation comes to her, creeping across the horizon like the rosy dawn, that this, right here, this place of abundance and bliss, this is the high she was chasing all along.

She’d used drugs and alcohol and sex to try and get out of her earthbound self, but the gates had never opened.

Now she passes through.