She stirs in the half-light,
the blanket tangled like a stubborn vine.
With a slow unraveling,
she crawls out from the warmth as if emerging from a cocoon,
limbs heavy,
the air chilled but soft against her skin.
Her feet meet the floor with a sigh,
bare toes sinking into the frayed rug,
its fibers prickling,
anchoring her in the present moment.
Outside the window,
the world holds its breath.
The sky is a bruised lavender,
the faintest blush of dawn clinging to the horizon like the last whisper of a dream.
The trees,
tall and skeletal,
stand like ancient sentinels,
their branches etched in fine lines against the swelling light,
a language of nature she does not yet understand but feels in her bones.
In the distance,
mist coils around the low hills,
blurring the edges of reality,
as if the earth itself is still uncertain whether to wake or linger in slumber.
She presses her palm to the cold glass,
feeling the pulse of the morning on the other side.
It thrums faintly,
a heartbeat,
a slow and steady invitation to begin again,
but she remains motionless,
caught between the urge to step into the new day and the desire to retreat back to the cocoon of her bed,
where time moves differently,
or maybe not at all.
Her breath fogs the window,
a delicate cloud blooming and then fading,
as impermanent as she feels in this vast and shifting world.
In the haze,
she catches glimpses of herself—shadow and light,
presence and absence.
She wonders,
as she always does in the quiet of morning,
how many versions of her are scattered out there,
across the fields,
the forests,
the city streets.
Are they all waiting for her,
as she waits for them?
The day ahead is an unspoken thing,
neither promising nor threatening,
just there,
a stretch of blankness on the horizon.
She knows the routine: the ticking clock,
the cluttered desk,
the emails,
the meetings,
the quiet transactions of time that fill and empty her in equal measure.
But here,
in this space between waking and rising,
it all seems distant,
unreal,
like a story someone else told her once but she never quite believed.
She shifts her gaze to the rooftops below,
the sleeping houses,
their chimneys exhaling the last traces of night’s warmth.
In one of them,
a cat stretches lazily on a windowsill,
a mirror of her own slow emergence.
In another,
a light flickers on—a lone figure moving in a kitchen,
the clink of a spoon against porcelain almost audible through the stillness.
She imagines their lives,
threading through the morning like invisible strings,
tangling briefly with hers before vanishing into their separate orbits.
And what of her orbit?
She wonders this without urgency,
just a distant curiosity,
as if the answer lies beyond the mist,
beyond the treeline,
in a place she cannot yet reach.
The window offers no clues,
just the slow unfolding of light across the sky,
indifferent to her questions.
She closes her eyes for a moment,
letting the cool air seep into her bones,
reminding her that she is,
after all,
here.
Alive.
Breathing.
Awake,
if only just.
The morning stretches out before her,
wide and unfamiliar,
like an empty stage waiting for the first step.
She feels it—an ache,
a restlessness—as if something inside her is already moving forward,
pulling her toward a day she hasn’t quite accepted yet.
She turns from the window,
leaving the sky and the trees behind,
and moves slowly across the room.
Each step feels deliberate,
a negotiation between gravity and will.
She reaches for the kettle,
the familiar hum of water boiling grounding her as she waits.
In the distance,
a bird calls—sharp,
clear,
insistent.
It cuts through the fog in her mind,
drawing her back to herself,
to the ritual of beginning.
The steam rises,
curling in the early light like the breath of something ancient,
something untouchable,
and she lets it fill her lungs,
warm her from the inside.
And so it begins.
Not with a leap,
not with a rush,
but with this—an exhale,
a quiet step into the unknown,
the weight of the day pressing gently but undeniably against her skin.
She has no answers,
no grand plans,
no visions of what lies ahead, only this: a moment suspended between the fog and the sun,
between the dream and the day,
between the window and the world.
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