At first, nothing visibly changed. The room remained quiet. Light continued to fall softly across the walls. Fabric still moved with the air.

And yet, after the announcement, the world lost its former balance. Someone who had always seemed immovable in my life suddenly became fragile and almost unreal to me. And somewhere inside that shift, I felt myself becoming a child again.

Thoughts drift slowly through the space like suspended forms searching for somewhere to rest. Familiar places no longer fully belong to the world that existed before.

The body remains present. But part of the soul has already crossed elsewhere.