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“Okay.”
It’s strange knowing I’m going to die, but at least I have time to say goodbye to all the things I love first.
With that in mind, I sit on the beach for ages, painting yellow suns onto eleven gray stones, one for each of the years I’ll be here on earth, until something catches out of the corner of my eye. There’s a little girl down by the shoreline twirling on the sand with her arms outstretched and her dark hair flying in all directions. The sun is directly behind her—big, bright, and blinding. It’s dipping her in and out of vision: swallowing her up whole one minute, and then setting fire to her the next.
She catches me staring and stops twirling with a jerk. After a beat of indecision, she runs over. It’s like the light is coming straight at me, and I brace myself for impact.
She stops a meter out and grins. I stare at her mouth because I’ve never seen anything as beautiful as her smile before. It’s pure sunshine, and everyone knows that sunshine kills monsters and keeps the darkness away.
It’s also pure gold. Precious and rare. And gold needs to be protected at all costs.
“Hello,” she says shyly.
She’s standing right in front of me, looking down on me. It’s like she’s taking up the whole sky. My sky.
Mi Cielo.
I came here to die today and now I’m not so sure. The razor blade in my pocket feels heavier now, like it has another purpose.
“Hello,” I stutter back. “Do you want to come sit with me?”
“Okay.” She flops down on the sand and crosses her skinny legs in front of her. She can’t be more than five or six years old. “What shall we talk about?”
“The sun,” I blurt out.
“What about the sun?”
“There are billions of stars in the galaxy,Mi Cielo,but nothing beats the sun...”
