Rising Embers

"Death was something she hadn't thought of much before. Which she heard was normal for her age. In your twenties, even as a teenager, you never envision yourself dying. You think you're invincible. But with the heaviness of her body, the acute pain throbbing throughout every nerve, the burning of her lungs, she imagined this is what death would feel like. Even though she couldn't die, because technically, she was invincible. But a part of her craved that sudden release, anything to escape this torture."